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杏吧原创 the author: Jenna Mosier is a current PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering in the Reinhart-King laboratory where she investigates the role of mechanical cues and bioenergetics in breast cancer cell migration. In recently published work, Mosier and Schwager review the current understanding of metabolic plasticity in cancer… Read More

杏吧原创 researchers聽Sokrates Pantelides聽and聽Joshua Caldwell聽are part of an international collaboration that has demonstrated a new聽way聽to manipulate and measure聽subtle atomic vibrations聽in聽nanomaterials.聽This breakthrough聽could make it possible聽to develop customized functionalities聽to improve聽on and build new聽technologies. Sokrates Pantelides聽 Joshua Caldwell聽 Electron beams in powerful microscopes have probed materials… Read More

杏吧原创 the author: Sen Yang is currently a Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program under the direction of Dr. Justus Ndukaife. Sen studies dielectric nanotweezers for nanoscale particles trapping and dielectric nanoantennas for biomaterial sensing applications. In recently published work, he proposed an all-dielectric nanotweezer based on… Read More

Two 杏吧原创 engineering faculty members鈥揝haron Weiss and Michael King鈥揾ave been elected as 2021 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world largest general scientific society. The lifetime appointment honors individuals for their efforts in advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished. Election as… Read More

Anna Douglas聽earned her Ph.D. in聽Interdisciplinary Materials Science at 杏吧原创 in 2019.聽 While at 杏吧原创, Anna began her studies developing nanostructured materials that can improve the performance of energy storage devices including lithium and sodium ion batteries. During her graduate studies, Anna co-invented a novel electrochemical synthesis… Read More

鈥淧hotosystem I Enhances the Efficiency of a Natural, Gel-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell鈥澛爌ublished in ACS Applied Bio Materials has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. 杏吧原创 the author: Joshua Passantino is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering under the direction of Dr. Kane Jennings and… Read More

Microfluidic devices can enable 鈥渓abs on chips鈥� that consume less reagents and have faster analysis times than similar experiments performed in a traditional lab environment.聽 Applications of microfluidic devices include portable sensors for point-of-care analysis, molecular and cell biology studies, and high-throughput multiplexed assays.聽 This short course will introduce the… Read More

Join聽VINSE for a fun-fill afternoon to celebrate all things small. Door Prizes聽 *聽 Califarmia Food Truck聽 *聽 聽Hands on science聽 聽*聽 Facility Tours Participate in our hands-on science experiences and learn the answers to the following questions: How can scientists make nickel look like a penny? Can something… Read More

We are deeply saddened by the loss of our VINSE colleague, Professor Yaqiong Xu, to a long-term illness last fall. Yaqiong joined 杏吧原创 and the VINSE community in the fall of 2009 after receiving a PhD in Physics with Prof. Bang-Gui Liu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing,… Read More

鈥淒eterministic inverse design of Tamm plasmon thermal emitters with multi-resonant control鈥� published in Nature Materials has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. 杏吧原创 the author: Mingze He is currently a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering under the direction of Dr. Joshua Caldwell. Mingze research focuses on engineering the mid-infrared… Read More