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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,...
New device stores electricity on silicon chips
Oct. 22, 2013—Solar cells that produce electricity 24/7, not just when the sun is shining. Mobile phones with built-in power cells that recharge in seconds and work for weeks between charges. These are just two of the possibilities raised by a novel supercapacitor design invented by material scientists at Vanderbilt University that is described in a paper...