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Spotlight Podcast Episode 28: Zhiliang Pan – thermal transport in nanowires with unique structures
Nov. 17, 2020—Episode 28 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Zhiliang Pan tells Alice Leach thermal transport in nanowires with unique structures. Zhiliang’s paper ” Net negative contributions of free electrons to the thermal conductivity of NbSe3 nanowires ” was published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Zhiliang is a 3rd year mechanical engineering graduate student in the lab...
Spotlight Podcast Episode 27: Isom Kelly – porous silicon nanoparticles – tiny chunks of silicon that can be used as drug delivery vehicles
Nov. 10, 2020—Episode 27 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Isom Kelly tells Alice Leach about porous silicon nanoparticles – tiny chunks of silicon that can be used as drug delivery vehicles. Isom’s paper “Tuning Composition of Polymer and Porous Silicon Composite Nanoparticles for Early Endosome Escape of Anti-microRNA Peptide Nucleic Acids” was published in ACS Applied Materials...
Spotlight Podcast Episode 26: Chris Stachurski – carbon dots – tiny luminescent particles of carbon
Nov. 3, 2020—Episode 26 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Chris Stachurski tells Alice Leach about carbon dots – tiny luminescent particles of carbon. Chris’s paper ” Optical and electrochemical tuning of hydrothermally synthesized nitrogen-doped carbon dots” was published in Nanoscale Advances. Chris is a 5th year chemistry graduate student in the lab of David Cliffel. Chris Stachurski –...
Spotlight Podcast Episode 25: Nidhi Jyotsana – knowledge of cancer can inform our study of COVID-19
Oct. 27, 2020—Episode 25 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Nidhi Jyotsana tells Alice Leach how our knowledge of cancer can inform our study of COVID-19. Nidhi’s paper “The Impact of COVID-19 on Cancer Risk and Treatment” was published in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Nidhi was a Research Assistant Professor in the lab of Mike King and is...
Virtual Tours Just Released
Oct. 26, 2020— VINSE is pleased to announce virtual tours are now available for our Analytical Lab and Cleanroom. Analytical Lab Tour Cleanroom Tour
Poster Winners Fall 2020 NanoDay! Poster Session
Oct. 23, 2020—Congratulations to the winners at the VINSE 2020 NanoDay! Poster Session 1st Place – $500 Jenna Mosier, Biomedical Engineering Advisor: Cynthia Reinhart-King “Modeling Mechanical and Metabolic Memory of Confined Cancer Cells Using Collagen Microtracks” 2nd Place – $250 Jeremy Espano, Interdisciplinary Materials Science Advisor: Janet Macdonald “Phase Control in Late Metal Chalcogenides Using Tunable Thioureas” Juan Colazo, Biomedical Engineering...
NSF seed grant supports biomanufacturing of new drug delivery technologies
Oct. 21, 2020—One of the challenges of drug delivery systems is to optimize their targeting properties so therapeutic compounds used in smaller amounts reach only a specific area of the body and result in little or no side effects. The ability to engineer the content of extracellular vesicles and target these EVs to specific sites offers the...
Spotlight Podcast Episode 24: Chuchuan Hong – trapping and manipulating nanoscale objects
Oct. 13, 2020—Episode 24 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Chuchuan Hong tells Alice Leach about trapping and manipulating nanoscale objects. Chuchuan’s paper “Stand-off trapping and manipulation of sub-10 nm objects and biomolecules using opto-thermo-electrohydrodynamic tweezers” was published in Nature Nanotechnology. Chuchuan is a 3rd student Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering working under the direction of Justus Ndukaife....
NanoDay Virtual Poster Session
Oct. 8, 2020—2020 NanoDay! Virtual Poster Session will be held Friday, October 23, 3PM-5PM CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Spotlight Podcast Episode 23: Nicole Moehring – crystal structure, how we characterize it and its impact on the physical properties of a material
Oct. 6, 2020—Episode 23 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Nicole Moehring tells Alice Leach about crystal structure, how we characterize it and its impact on the physical properties of a material. Nicole’s paper “In situ observations of thermally induced phase transformations in iron sulfide nanoparticles” was published in Materials Today Advances. Nicole is a 3rd student Ph.D....