‘VINSE General News’
OSIRIS STEM relocation complete
Apr. 23, 2017—The Osirirs STEM has been relocated to its new home in the VINSE Imaging Suite located in the basement of the Engineering and Science Building (ESB) Room 011. This is a fully digital 200 kV S/TEM system, designed to deliver revolutionary analytical performance in all imaging and analytical modes. Click here for training and access
VINSE outeach program reaches milestone
Apr. 7, 2017—Students from Portland High School and Kenwood High School visited the VINSE labs on March 8. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt) The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering recently hosted its 100th group of Middle Tennessee high school students for a daylong field trip to the VINSE laboratories, giving the students hands-on experience in science and technology. Small groups...
Helios FIB-SEM now available in ESB
Mar. 29, 2017—The Helios FIB-SEM has been relocated to its new home in the VINSE Imaging Suite located in the basement of the Engineering and Science Building (ESB) Room 019. The Helios FIB-SEM provides the capability to fabricate TEM thin sections, modify surfaces using electron and ion beam induced deposition, and is an excellent imaging platform using...
Zeiss Merlin SEM relocation schedule
Mar. 28, 2017—The Merlin SEM is moving to the new VINSE Imaging Suite in the Engineering and Science Building, room 015. Move schedule. April 19 – EDX system will be removed from SEM and packed for relocation April 23 – Last day of service as an imaging tool April 24 – physical move May 3 – anticipated return to service...
Bruker Dimension Icon Atomic Force Microscope – now available in ESB
Feb. 20, 2017—The Bruker Dimension Icon Atomic Force Microscope has been relocated to its new home in the VINSE Imaging Suite located in the basement of the Engineering and Science Building (ESB) Room 023. The AFM is a state-of-the-art scanning probe instrument that can be used to map a wide variety of properties over solid surfaces in...
IMS grad student Jake Benzing takes home physical sciences award from conference
Sep. 9, 2015—A Vanderbilt PhD student in interdisciplinary materials science took home a first-place poster award at August’s Microscopy & Microanalysis conference, held last month in Portland, Oregon. Jake Benzing, whose adviser is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering James Wittig, presented a research poster and abstract titled “Fe-25Mn-3Al-3Si TWIP-TRIP Steel Deformed at High Strain Rates” and...
Carter, Hachtel and Slack win for best Oral & Poster Presentation at Annual Conference
Jun. 23, 2015—Three VINSE graduate students received awards at the annual TN-SCORE conference held in Nashville, TN on June 18-19, 2015. Rachel Carter and Jordan Hachtel tied for first place for best oral presentation. Rachel is a Mechanical Engineering graduate student working under the direction of Professor Cary Pint, her talk was “Core/Shell Ni/Ni(OH)2 Foam for a...
MS graduate students Kevin Miller and Kelsey Beavers featured in Vanderbilt News
Jan. 2, 2015—KEVIN MILLER Kevin Miller reflected in his optoelectronic device. With a slight turn of the tweezers holding it, an inch-long, mirrored chip reflects the face of its creator. Less obvious than Kevin Miller’s smile are tiny filters on the chip’s surface that he hopes will one day replace the electronic components inside computers. Miller, a...
New facility devoted to multiscale modeling opens on Music Row
Sep. 26, 2014—Vanderbilt University School of Engineering has established a unique research facility focusing on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation. MuMS is home to four faculty members and their research groups. An Open House and inaugural MuMS Seminar Oct. 9 will celebrate the recent creation of the space located on Nashville’s historic Music Row. Multiscale modeling involves the...
Construction of new VINSE facilities in new Engineering and Science Building set to begin May 2014
Apr. 28, 2014—Vanderbilt’s Board of Trust has approved construction of a seven-story engineering and science building designed to foster project teamwork and offer programs, instrumentation areas and core research space that will promote interdisciplinary work. A clean room and advanced imaging facilities will provide capabilities to advance discoveries in areas such as nanocomposites, smart materials, advanced energy...