‘Piran Kidambi’
Spotlight Podcast Episode 23: Nicole Moehring – crystal structure, how we characterize it and its impact on the physical properties of a material
Oct. 6, 2020—Episode 23 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Nicole Moehring tells Alice Leach about crystal structure, how we characterize it and its impact on the physical properties of a material. Nicole’s paper “In situ observations of thermally induced phase transformations in iron sulfide nanoparticles” was published in Materials Today Advances. Nicole is a 3rd student Ph.D....
Engineers develop better graphene sieve that could advance clean water efforts
Sep. 23, 2020—Developing atomically thin graphene membranes used to separate salt from water is extraordinarily complex and the effort grows more crucial as population growth, industrialization and climate change strain freshwater resources. Vanderbilt engineers have designed a simple defect-sealing technique to correct variations in pore size in graphene membranes. Vanderbilt engineering researchers report a breakthrough in scalable...
Spotlight Podcast Episode 10: Andrew Naclerio – Exceptional properties of 2D materials
Jul. 7, 2020—This week in episode 10 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Alice Leach talks with Andrew Naclerio about the exceptional properties of 2D materials. Andrew’s paper ” Visualizing Oxidation Mechanisms in Few-Layered Black Phosphorus via In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy” was published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Andrew is a 2nd year student in Chemical...
Piran Kidambi wins Projects in Green Energy Technology fellowship from the Electrochemical Society and Toyota Motors
Jul. 1, 2020—The Electrochemical Society and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Announce 2020-2021 Fellowship Winners for Projects in Green Energy Technology Pennington, NJ – Prof. Dr. Shoji Hall, Prof. Dr. Piran Ravichandran Kidambi, and Dr. Haegyeom Kim have been awarded the 2020-2021 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships. This is the sixth year that the...
Class project leads to a paper in peer reviewed international journal
Mar. 10, 2020—When a research idea is offered to a multidisciplinary class and it results in a journal paper that advances science and creates new scholars, that’s a terrific success. “And, it’s about as collaborative as you can get when graduate and undergraduate students in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and chemistry take on a project,” said Piran...
Kidambi receives NSF Early Career Award to support atomically thin membrane research
Feb. 4, 2020—Piran Kidambi has received a 2020 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. The five-year, $500,000 grant—Deconstructing Proton Transport through Atomically Thin Membranes—begins July 1, 2020. Kidambi, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, will use the award to support his research on membrane technology. His work focuses on atomically-thin two-dimensional materials that allow...
VINSE engineer Piran Kidambi awarded Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award for research on 2D nanomaterials
Jul. 5, 2018—An engineering professor whose nanomaterials research, particularly materials that are one atom thick, has received a competitive research grant from Oak Ridge Associated Universities. Piran Kidambi, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is one of 35 junior faculty nationwide to win a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, which provides funds to enrich...