Janell Lees

On Friday, October 25th, VINSE welcomed 14 students from Central Magnet School to our Forensics Lab. Their task was to gather evidence of the “murderer” using the different tools in the lab before the day’s end! Using several types of spectroscopies including Raman, FTIR, absorption and photoluminescence, clues were revealed. Read More

Congratulations to VINSE Cleanroom staff Christina McGahan, Ben Schmidt, Megan Dernberger, and VINSE Superusers Owen Meilander, Theodore Anyika and Grace Adams for their fantastic participation in today’s livestream of Building Stuff with NOVA! Special thanks to VINSE alumni Stephanie Castillo for bringing the NOVA Build Crew to explore nanoscale science. Read More

Congratulations to Kieran Nehil-Puleo! Kieran’s article “E(n) Equivariant Graph Neural Network for Learning Interactional Properties of Molecules” has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. Kieran Nehil-Puleo is a fourth-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Material Science under the guidance of Dr. Peter Cummings and Dr. Jhongyue… Read More

VINSE is excited to announce that Yueming Yan is the recipient of the 2024 VINSE Best Collaborative Paper award. Yueming’s paper has contributions from two VINSE groups from different departments – the Haglund group in Physics and the Macdonald group in Chemistry.  Yueming designed a multi-layer nano composite film… Read More

On October 9, the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) celebrated National Nanotechnology Day, showcasing the remarkable innovations at the nanometer scale (10^-9 meters). The event included guided window tours of VINSE’s cutting-edge cleanroom, showcasing the pioneering research conducted at the institute.   Attendees were treated to Ben… Read More

Congratulations to Zhiliang Pan, recipient of the 2024 VINSE Best Graduate Student Publication award. Zhiliang’s publication in Nature reports on the first demonstration of direct experimental evidence for substantial heat conduction along SiC nanowires mediated by surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs), hybrid quasi-particles resulting from coupling between infrared photons and optically… Read More

The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) is thrilled to announce its annual celebration of National Nanotechnology Day on October 9. Held in recognition of the significance of the nanometer scale—10-9 meters—National Nanotechnology Day serves as a reminder of the innovative advances made in this field. VINSE will… Read More

On October 1, 2024, the VINSE Fall Faculty Celebration took place to honor and celebrate the remarkable achievements of our community. This annual event not only highlighted individual accomplishments but also fostered a sense of camaraderie among colleagues. WELCOME TO VINSE Daniel Gonzales | Janell Lees… Read More

Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded an R21 Trailblazer Award by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pursue a project about “Wirelessly Actuated Ciliary Stent… Read More

To share our love of making tiny things for science, VINSE participated in this year’s TN Maker Fest.  VINSE NanoGuides showcase nanoscale using familiar items in three engaging interactive demonstrations. Pencils to Prizes – attendees made their own single-atom-thick materials like a Nobel Prize winner with tape and pencil… Read More