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VINSE Colloquium: Student Selected Speaker Dr. Arjun Yodh 04/04/2025
11th Annual VINSE Student Selected Seminar Arjun Yodh James M. Skinner Professor of Science and Department Chair University of Pennsylvania聽 Imaging and Spectroscopy of (mostly) Brain Using Diffusing Light 04.04.25聽 |聽 noon Diffusing light can be used to probe physiology in tissues located far below the… Read MoreMar. 14, 2024
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VINSE Best Collaborative Paper Awardees Attend A Celebratory Dinner
Recently, Andrey Shults, Guanyu Lu, Josh Caldwell and Janet Macdonald celebrated their winning 2023 VINSE Best Collaborative Paper award. The paper has contributions from two VINSE groups from different departments 鈥 the Macdonald group in Chemistry and the Caldwell group in Mechanical Engineering. The authors report on colloidal chemistry synthesis… Read MoreMar. 14, 2024
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92 High School Students Join Blackberry Solar Cell Lab During Spring Break
Students from Harpeth High School While the 杏吧原创 campus is ramping down during spring break, VINSE outreach program is buzzing with energy! On March 11, VINSE welcomed 20 students from Harpeth High School to our Blackberry Solar Cell Lab. They made solar cells out of blackberry juice and measured the… Read MoreMar. 11, 2024
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Field Trip of Mansfield Frontier STEM Academy from Texas
On Friday, March 1 VINSE hosted students from Mansfield Frontier STEM Academy from Mansfield Texas to learn about nanoscience and nanotechnology during a day visit. Outreach experiences are tailored to fit into a variety of science courses. For the graphene work and the gowning session, student made their… Read MoreMar. 6, 2024
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Summer 2024 Short Courses
VINSE offers a聽variety of short courses each year to provide attendees opportunities to advance their skills and knowledge about topics relevant to a technical community. Attendance is open to all interested parties and is not limited to 杏吧原创 personnel or VINSE users. Atomic Force Microscopy AFM is an advanced… Read MoreFeb. 28, 2024
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鈥淪pin Coating Photoactive Photosystem I鈭扨EDOT:PSS Composite Films鈥 published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials, selected as VINSE Spotlight Publication
杏吧原创 the author: Marc Nabhan, a 2023 PhD graduate from the Department of Chemical Engineering, successfully defended his dissertation under the guidance of Dr. Kane Jennings. Currently serving as the co-founder and CEO of Optomar Technologies, Marc leads the development of a metabolic rate sensor designed for precise calorie… Read MoreFeb. 21, 2024
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Dissertation Defense: Jeremy Espano, Interdisciplinary Materials Science
DISSERTATION DEFENSE Jeremy Espano,聽Interdisciplinary Materials Science *under the direction of聽Janet Macdonald 鈥淯nderstanding the Crystalline Landscape of Metal Chalcogenide Materials鈥 03.01.24聽 |聽 2:30PM CST聽 |聽 214 Light Hall聽| The identity and arrangement of atoms determine the properties of all crystalline solids, and when the identity of the atoms is the… Read MoreFeb. 20, 2024
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Spotlight Publication: “Engineering endosomolytic nanocarriers of diverse morphologies using confined impingement jet mixing” published in Nanoscale
Co-first author Hayden Pagendarm is a 4th year PhD student in Biomedical Engineering program advised by Dr. John T. Wilson. His research is focused on the development of novel technologies to induce antigen-specific immune tolerance, with a focus on engineered proteins and extracellular vesicles. Co-first author Payton Stone is… Read MoreFeb. 15, 2024
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Dissertation Defense: Alexandra Koziel, Chemistry
DISSERTATION DEFENSE Alexandra C. Koziel,聽Chemistry *under the direction of聽Janet Macdonald 鈥淭hink Smaller: Understanding Selenium Pathways in Metal Chalcogenide Nanocrystal Synthesis鈥 03.07.24聽 |聽 2:00PM CST聽 |聽 512 Light Hall As nanochemistry grows as a field and the applications of nanomaterials emerge, the importance of understanding what happens in the reaction… Read MoreFeb. 13, 2024
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Dissertation Defense: Simon Ward, Electrical and Computer Engineering
DISSERTATION DEFENSE Simon J. Ward,聽Electrical and Computer Engineering *under the direction of聽Sharon Weiss 鈥淚mproving Biosensor Performance using Machine Learning and Signal Processing鈥 02.15.24聽 |聽 1:00PM CST聽 |聽 308 Featheringill Hall聽| Zoom ID: 935 9293 1256 The field of biosensing, encompassing the detection of harmful biological molecules in medical… Read MoreFeb. 12, 2024