‘Deyu Li’
Four VINSE Faculty Win 2024 School of Engineering Research Awards
May. 9, 2024— At the recent School of Engineering End of the Year Social, Dean Krish Roy presented several awards. Four faculty members from the Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) were honored for their outstanding contributions to research. Rising Star Research Award: Marjan Rafat Marjan Rafat, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,...
“Graphene-based microfluidic perforated microelectrode arrays for retinal electrophysiological studies” published in Lab on a Chip, selected as VINSE Spotlight Publication
May. 6, 2024—Alberto Esteban Linares received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Deyu Li, with a focus on creating microfluidic devices for retina electrophysiology studies. Currently, he is a post-doctoral scholar in the Biomedical Microsystems Laboratory, University of Southern California, where he develops flexible implantable microelectrodes for...
Congratulations to our 2024 MRS Spring Meeting Award Recipients – Zhiliang, Youngji, Ethan, and Emily!
May. 1, 2024—Congratulations to VINSE members Zhiliang Pan, Youngji Kim, Ethan Ray and Emily Buckner, each who received awards at the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting in Seattle. Zhiliang Pan, a first-year postdoc in Mechanical Engineering, won the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting Best Poster Award for his poster titled “Thermal Transport in Quasi-1D van der Waals Crystal Nanowires”....
“Remarkable heat conduction mediated by non-equilibrium phonon polaritons” published in Nature, selected as VINSE Spotlight Publication
Oct. 31, 2023—Zhiliang Pan is a 2023 Ph.D graduate from the Department of Mechanical Engineering under the direction of Dr. Deyu Li. He stays in the same lab as a postdoctoral scholar after graduation to further expand his Ph.D research on energy transport mediated by phonon polaritons in polar nanostructures. In this recent publication co-authored with fellow...
Researcher Highlight: Zhiliang Pan
Oct. 2, 2023—Zhiliang Pan, a postdoc in Dr. Deyu Li’s Lab in the Mechanical Engineering department after earning his Ph.D. from the same lab in May 2023. Cooling technologies are important in a wide spectrum of engineering applications from thermal management of micro/optoelectronic devices to maintenance of comfort building environment. It is becoming more crucial as we...
Dissertation Defense: Zhiliang Pan, Mechanical Engineering
Feb. 24, 2023—DISSERTATION DEFENSE Zhiliang Pan, Mechanical Engineering *under the direction of Deyu Li “Thermal Transport in Low Dimensional Polar Nanostructures“ 03.16.23 | 9:00am | 135 Olin Hall Thermal conductivity of nanostructures and materials are of fundamental importance as well as application values for its potential in a broad variety of technologies. While the past two decades...
Dissertation Defense: Alberto Esteban Linares, Mechanical Engineering
Feb. 13, 2023—DISSERTATION DEFENSE Alberto Esteban Linares, Mechanical Engineering *under the direction of Dr. Deyu Li “Microfluidic Platforms for Retina Electrophysiology Studies” 03.01.23 | 11:00am CST | RHL (Light Hall) 512 Microfluidic platforms for ex vivo tissue culture studies are crucial for better understanding tissue physiologies and pathologies as they allow for precise control of cell microenvironment alike in...
“Dynamic Observation of Retinal Response to Pressure Elevation in a Microfluidic Chamber” published in Analytical Chemistry, selected as a VINSE spotlight publication
Oct. 20, 2022—About the author: Alberto Esteban Linares is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering advised by Dr. Deyu Li. Alberto’s research focuses on developing novel microfluidic platforms with probing and sensing capabilities to study the behavior of certain neurons in ex vivo retinal tissue. Alberto’s recent publication presents a microfluidic platform capable of generating and...
Elastic stiffening induces one-dimensional phonons in thin Ta 2Se3 nanowires selected as VINSE Spotlight Publication
Aug. 31, 2022—About the author: Zhiliang Pan is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering Department advised by Dr. Deyu Li. Zhiliang’s research focuses on nanoscale heat transfer in low dimensional materials and complex structures. In the recently published work, Zhiliang carried out systematic thermal property measurements on thin Ta2Se3 nanowires. Results indicate signatures of one-dimensional phonons...
Hong named to Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship Program for New Americans
May. 4, 2022—Tao Hong Tao Hong, a second-year Ph.D. student in interdisciplinary materials science, and Hari Srinivasan, an incoming Ph.D. student in neuroscience, have been named to the 2022 cohort of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship Program for New Americans. Hong, a member of VINSE, is co-advised by Professor Jason Valentine and Professor Deyu Li. This merit-based graduate...