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16th Annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum – NanoDay! 10/14/15 – Keynote Speaker – Nate Lewis, CalTech
Sep. 17, 2015—16th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum Wednesday, October 14, 2015 BUTTRICK HALL 1:10 – 1:25 Welcome Sandra Rosenthal, Chemistry 1:25 – 2:15 New tools in VINSE: Laser Writer, Leon Bellan, MERLIN Scanning Electron Microscope, Anthony Hmelo, Oxford Reaction Ion Etch, Jason Valentine, Dual Beam Focused Ion Beam, Deyu Li, X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Bridget Rogers FEATHERINGILL HALL 2:25 – 3:10 POSTER...
IMS grad student Jake Benzing takes home physical sciences award from conference
Sep. 9, 2015—A Vanderbilt PhD student in interdisciplinary materials science took home a first-place poster award at August’s Microscopy & Microanalysis conference, held last month in Portland, Oregon. Jake Benzing, whose adviser is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering James Wittig, presented a research poster and abstract titled “Fe-25Mn-3Al-3Si TWIP-TRIP Steel Deformed at High Strain Rates” and...
Experts address promises and problems of 3D printing large structures
Jul. 24, 2015—Every month or so an article comes out reporting that some new object has been made using 3D printing: Everything from jewelry to prosthetic devices to electronic circuit boards to assault rifles to automobiles has now been created in this fashion. The prospect that this revolutionary manufacturing method will have a major impact on how...
Valentine Selected to Participate in NAE’s 2015 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Jul. 10, 2015—Washington, DC, June 25, 2015 – Eighty-nine of the nation’s brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 21st annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium. Engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together for the...
Five year, $20 million TN-SCORE program boots state’s energy research capacity
Jun. 30, 2015—For the last five years, scientists and engineers at Vanderbilt University have been collaborating closely with colleagues at other public and private universities and research centers throughout Tennessee in an effort to increase the state’s energy research capacity. This collaboration was made possible by a five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation (NSF) cooperative agreement Tennessee...
Carter, Hachtel and Slack win for best Oral & Poster Presentation at Annual Conference
Jun. 23, 2015—Three VINSE graduate students received awards at the annual TN-SCORE conference held in Nashville, TN on June 18-19, 2015. Rachel Carter and Jordan Hachtel tied for first place for best oral presentation. Rachel is a Mechanical Engineering graduate student working under the direction of Professor Cary Pint, her talk was “Core/Shell Ni/Ni(OH)2 Foam for a...
Jason Valentine featured in C&EN News and Nature Materials
Jun. 16, 2015—VINSE member Jason Valentine’s work published in ACS Photonics was featured in C&EN magazine and Nature Materials 06/15/2015 “Simple Process Creates Near-Perfect Mirrors Out Of A Metamaterial Photonics: A layer of self-assembled particles allows researchers to etch an almost-perfect reflector that might be used in telescopes and lasers out of silicon By Katherine Bourzacx […] Last...
World’s smallest spirals could guard against identity theft
Jun. 8, 2015—Take gold spirals about the size of a dime…and shrink them down about six million times. The result is the world’s smallest continuous spirals: “nano-spirals” with unique optical properties that would be almost impossible to counterfeit if they were added to identity cards, currency and other important objects. Students and faculty at Vanderbilt University fabricated...
Engineer uses cotton candy to build artificial blood vessels
Apr. 1, 2015—Vanderbilt University mechanical engineer Leon Bellan is working to create artificial human capillary blood vessels using cotton candy and gelatin. His goal is for researchers to use these man-made capillaries to help keep artificial organs and other tissues alive, which could dramatically impact the field of regenerative medicine. Vascular toolbox Bellan’s lab is hoping these...
IMS student Kelsey Beavers featured in Research News @ Vanderbilt
Mar. 27, 2015—Kelsey Beavers, a Vanderbilt University Ph.D. candidate in interdisciplinary materials science, is exploring how inserting engineering into biological processes can lead to a healthier society. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt University) Behind the pathology for a variety of painful and deadly diseases lie genes that aren’t doing their jobs. They may be blocking the healing process for foot...