‘James McBride’
“Clostridioides difficile ferrosome organelles combat nutritional immunity” published in Nature, selected as Spotlight Publication
Nov. 17, 2023—Congratulations to Eric Skaar’s group for their Nature publication. The keys towards understanding the role of nutrients in guest-hosts interactions inherently reside at the nanoscale. The work by Pi et al. from the Skaar laboratory utilized the advanced electron microscopy capabilities in VINSE to reveal how C. difficile bacteria use iron storage organelles to manage large...
VINSE Congratulates Bawendi, Brus and Ekimov on Quantum Dot Nobel Prize
Oct. 4, 2023—The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”. These tiny particles can emit very bright colored light and are used in electronics and medical imaging. Quantum dots are nanometer size semiconductors whose optical properties can be...
Isom Kelly wins Best Collaborative Paper
Nov. 22, 2021—VINSE is excited to announce Isom Kelly is the recipient of the inaugural VINSE Best Collaborative Paper award. Isom’s paper has contributions from two VINSE faculty from different departments and one VINSE technical staff member, and involves research carried out in each of VINSE’s three core facilities: porous silicon nanoparticle fabrication in the cleanroom, characterization in the...
VINSE recognizes faculty accomplishments in annual fall faculty celebration
Sep. 15, 2021—Join in welcoming new members of our community, recognizing the accomplishments of our community, and celebrating faculty promotions. WELCOME Michael J. Valenti & Christina L. McGahan FACULTY PROMOTIONS We celebrate the recent promotions of the following faculty: Endowed Chairs Craig L. Duvall – named Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair Joshua D. Caldwell – named Flowers Family Chancellor...
VINSE recognizes faculty accomplishments in annual fall faculty celebration
Oct. 4, 2020—Please congratulate the following members of the VINSE faculty on recent accomplishments and promotions. FFC 2020 program. FACULTY PROMOTIONS We celebrate the recent promotions of the following faculty: Endowed Chairs Craig L. Duvall named Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair Joshua D. Caldwell named Flowers Family Chancellor Faculty Fellow in Engineering Kelsey B. Hatzell named Flowers Family Dean’s...
Spotlight Podcast Episode 9: James McBride – Imaging the next generation of electronics
Jun. 30, 2020—This week in episode 9 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Alice Leach talks with James McBride about imaging the next generation of electronics. James’ paper in collaboration with Dr. Cahoon from UNC “Ratcheting quasi-ballistic electrons in silicon geometric diodes at room temperature” was published in Science. James McBride – Imaging the next generation of electronics. Read More | Listen...
Rosenthal’s work featured in Scilight “Shell properties play an important role in the stability of green quantum dots”
Apr. 2, 2020—Stable green light-emitting quantum dots (QDs) are necessary for applications ranging from display technologies to bioimaging. Random, temporary fluctuations in emission known as “blinking,” and the complete lack of emission known as “photobleaching,” are some of the undesirable instabilities researchers looking to eliminate. Following a comprehensive study of the relationship between a QD’s structure and...
VINSE 2017 Image Competition Results
Nov. 3, 2017—During the month of October, VINSE held a competition seeking images to be displayed in the new VINSE core facilities of the ESB. Four designs were selected by a committee and attendees at the VINSE Open House select four more as the “People’s Choice”. Click here to see all winning submissions.
Rosenthal and McBride featured in Science Daily, Phys.Org, R&D Magazine & Research News @ Vanderbilt
Mar. 24, 2017—‘Flying saucer’ quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasers Research team ‘squashes’ the shape of nanoparticles, enabling inexpensive lasers that continuously emit light in a customized rainbow of colors March 20, 2017. By carefully controlling the size of the quantum dots, researchers can ‘tune’ the frequency, or color, of the emitted light to any...
New research at Vanderbilt could help make quantum dots the future of superefficient lighting
Aug. 16, 2012—Unless you’re in the .05 percent of the population who enjoyed physics in high school, the term “quantum” probably calls to mind James Bond or Scott Bakula. But researchers at Vanderbilt University are working on a project that could bring the word into the everyday vernacular, and perhaps even have a hand in saving the...