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New form of crystalline order holds promise for thermoelectric applications

Nov. 14, 2014—Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope image showing the interlaced crystalline structure. (Wu Zhou/ORNL) Since the 1850s scientists have known that crystalline materials are organized into 14 different basic lattice structures. However, a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) now reports that it has discovered an entirely new form of crystalline...

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VINSE Welcomes Janet Macdonald, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Oct. 3, 2011—Janet E. Macdonald, assistant professor of chemistry B.S., McGill University, 2002 Ph.D., University of Alberta, 2008 Macdonald recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Institute of Chemistry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her work on semiconductor nanostructures has led to the discovery of a novel, unpredicted semiconductor nanocage. At Vanderbilt, she proposes to synthesize novel semiconductor...

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