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2016 VINSE High Impact Paper Award Winners
Oct. 27, 2016—First Place – Bandgap Engineering of Strained Monolayer and Bilayer MoS2 Nano Letters Hiram Conley, Bin Wang, Jed Ziegler, Richard Haglund, Sokrates Pantelides, Kirill Bolotin Second Place – Realization of an all-dielectric zero-index optical metamaterial Nature Photonics Parikshit Moitra, Yuanmu Yang, Zachary Anderson, Ivan Kravchenko, Dayrl Briggs, Jason Valentine Third Place –Balancing Cationic and Hydrophobic...
Galloway receives international Gagarin Award for contributions to radiation effects research
Oct. 26, 2016—Kenneth F. Galloway received the 2016 Yuri Gagarin Award at the 2016 RADECS conference in Bremen, Germany. Galloway is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and former dean of the Vanderbilt School of Engineering. The Radiation Effects in Components and Systems Association was established in Europe in 1991...
17th Annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum Poster Winners
Oct. 19, 2016—More than 100 faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students engaged in nanoresearch at Vanderbilt attended the 17th annual Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Forum (“NanoDay!”) on October 19th. 33 posters were submitted in the 2016 student poster competition and the winners are: 1st Place Zhihua Zhu, Electrical Engineering Advisor: Jason Valentine/Richard Haglund “Tunable Metasurfaces Based on Vanadium Dioxide“ 2nd Place Somtochukwu Dimobi,...
Associate Professor of Physics Kalman Varga has been elected fellow of the American Physical Society.
Oct. 18, 2016—Stevenson Professor of Physics Keivan Stassun and Associate Professor of Physics Kalman Varga have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society. The fellowship is considered a prestigious recognition from their professional peers. The criterion for election is exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise, such as outstanding physics research, important applications of physics, leadership in...
17th Annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum – NanoDay! 10/19/16 – Keynote Speaker – Mark Saltzman
Sep. 14, 2016—17th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum Wednesday, October 19, 2016 A yearly forum for faculty, postdocs, and students engaged in nanoscience and nanotechnology research. STUDENT LIFE CENTER 1:00 – 1:10 Welcome Sandra Rosenthal, Director of VINSE 1:10 – 1:20 New Tool in VINSE: Helios FIB SEM Anthony Hmelo, VINSE 1:20 – 1:40 Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopies to...
Duvall earns spot on CMBE journal’s 2016 Young Investigators list
Aug. 19, 2016—Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, a journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society, has named Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of Graduate Recruiting in Biomedical Engineering Craig Duvall to its third annual list of Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Selection was a competitive process that began with nominations and included biosketches and abstracts...
Greg Walker named ASME Fellow
Aug. 17, 2016—Greg Walker, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has been selected to be a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for “exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession.” Walker is one of approximately 3,000 fellows chosen from among more than 130,000 ASME members. Associate Professor Greg Walker Cited by the ASME, Walker’s...
2016 NanoDay! T-shirt design competition underway
Aug. 17, 2016—Graduate Student NanoDay T-Shirt Design Competition! Goal: Create an attractive T-shirt design representing NanoDay and the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Winning design will receive a cash prize of $300.00 The design must be exclusively your own and cannot include logos and trademark images You can use any t-shirt color in your design...
Using nanotechnology to give fuel cells more oomph
Aug. 8, 2016—At the same time Honda and Toyota are introducing fuel cell cars to the U.S. market, a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University, Nissan North America and Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed up to create a new technology designed to give fuel cells more oomph. The project is part of a $13 million Department...
Advance in creating atomically thin electronic and optical devices
Apr. 15, 2016—A future generation of atomically thin optoelectronics devices, including transistors, photodetectors and solar cells, is a step closer because of an advance in the art of epitaxy made by scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) with an assist from a pair of Vanderbilt physicists. Epitaxy, the process of growing layers of crystalline film on...