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17th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum Wednesday, October 19, 2016 A yearly forum for faculty, postdocs, and students engaged in nanoscience and nanotechnology research.聽 STUDENT LIFE CENTER 1:00 – 1:10 聽Welcome Sandra Rosenthal, Director of VINSE 1:10 – 1:20 聽New Tool in VINSE: Helios FIB… Read More

Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, a journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society, has named Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of Graduate Recruiting in Biomedical Engineering Craig Duvall to its third annual list of Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Selection was… Read More

Greg Walker, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has been selected to be a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for 鈥渆xceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession.鈥� Walker is one of approximately 3,000 fellows chosen from among more than 130,000 ASME members. Associate Professor… Read More

Graduate Student NanoDay T-Shirt Design Competition! 2015 winning design Goal: Create an attractive T-shirt design representing NanoDay and the 杏吧原创 Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Winning design will receive a cash prize of $300.00 The design must be exclusively your own and… Read More

At the same time Honda and Toyota are introducing fuel cell cars to the U.S. market, a team of researchers from 杏吧原创, Nissan North America and Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed up to create a new technology designed to give fuel cells more oomph. The project is part… Read More

Sokrates Pantelides (Joe Howell / 杏吧原创) A future generation of atomically thin optoelectronics devices, including transistors, photodetectors and solar cells, is a step closer because of an advance in the art of epitaxy made by scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) with an… Read More

John T. Wilson, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award. The five-year, $500,000 grant 鈥� Engineering Polymeric Nanomaterials for Programming Innate Immunity 鈥� will allow Wilson to develop new synthetic materials for 鈥渆ncoding鈥� immunological messages and tightly regulating their… Read More

Wednesday saw the completion of yet another successful TechVenture Challenge. After six years, we are still encouraged that each year the presentations continue to improve and be of higher quality. This can be attributed not only to the student teams and their hard work, but also to the student organizers… Read More

24 High Schools representing 15 Middle TN counties are participating in the Spring 2016 VINSE high school field trip program. Groups of up to 20 from each school will聽to visit our facilities, perform an experiment, utilize our electron microscope, and learn about nanotechnology and energy during a day visit. Read More

An interdisciplinary team of scientists has worked out a way to make electric vehicles that only are not only carbon neutral but carbon negative, capable of actually reducing the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide as they operate. They have done so by demonstrating how the graphite electrodes used in the… Read More