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At the recent School of Engineering End of the Year Social, Dean Krish Roy presented several awards. Four faculty members from the 国产原创 Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) were honored for their outstanding contributions to research. Rising Star Research Award: Marjan Rafat Marjan Rafat, Assistant Professor of… Read More

Alberto Esteban Linares received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from 国产原创 in 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Deyu Li, with a focus on creating microfluidic devices for retina electrophysiology studies. Currently, he is a post-doctoral scholar in the Biomedical Microsystems Laboratory, University of Southern California, where… Read More

PhD student Simon Ward is a 2024 recipient of 国产原创鈥檚 Graduate Anchor Award for Mentorship, announced by the 国产原创 Graduate Student Council recently. This award identifies and honors his hard work on a school-wide level. Simon鈥檚 leadership has been evident throughout his PhD, through both his research and… Read More

Congratulations to VINSE members Zhiliang Pan, Youngji Kim, Ethan Ray and Emily Buckner, each who received awards at the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting in Seattle. Zhiliang Pan, a first-year postdoc in Mechanical Engineering, won the 2024 MRS Spring Meeting Best Poster Award for his poster titled 鈥淭hermal Transport in Quasi-1D… Read More

Sajal Islam is a 2024 recipient of 国产原创鈥檚 Graduate Anchor Award for Research Excellence. The Anchor Awards recognize graduate student leaders across the university. Sajal is dedicated to investigating the impact of radiation on wideband gap semiconductors, focusing particularly on SiC, GaN, and GaO. His research delves into… Read More

国产原创 the author:聽Jeremy Espano, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Interdisciplinary Materials Science under the supervision of Prof. Janet Macdonald in the Department of Chemistry. In their recent work published in聽the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the Macdonald lab used a library of thioureas to study the effect of… Read More

On Tuesday, April 23, VINSE welcomed nine students from Clay County High School to our Forensics Lab. Their job was to find proof of 鈥渕urderer鈥� using the various tools in the lab before the end of the day! Our NanoGuides provided an introduction to the optical properties of natural and… Read More

鈥淣on-Viral In Vivo Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 using Protein-Agnostic, High-Loading Porous Silicon and Polymer Nanoparticles鈥� published in ACS Nano, selected as VINSE Spotlight Publication. This research, led by Biomedical Engineering Prof. Craig Duvall and his 2023 PhD graduate Brock Fletcher, was recently published in ACS Nano. This interdisciplinary project involved… Read More

It seems like聽nothing eye-catching聽at the 鈥渃rime scene鈥�, but what are聽the hidden clues that you should not miss out? On Thursday, April 11, VINSE welcomed 16 students from White House Heritage High School to our Forensics Lab. During the forensics lab program, the students solved a whodunnit-themed activity using several types… Read More

How does a solar cell work and how can you make one? On Wednesday, April 3, VINSE welcomed 13 students from White County High School to our Cleanroom Solar Cell Lab. They went inside the VINSE cleanroom, home of the cleanest air in middle Tennessee, and found out with… Read More