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Science comes alive for middle school students during 91勛圖厙 lab visit
During a visit to campus on March 12, members of the Joelton Middle School Art2STEM club an after-school organization for middle school girls that highlights the importance of creativity in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics got to see what a real future… Read MoreMarch 13, 2012
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Ultrafast sonograms shed new light on rapid phase transitions
Vanadium dioxide crystal lattice (A. Julia St瓣hler / Fritz Haber Institute) An international team of physicists has developed a method for taking ultrafast sonograms that can track the structural changes that take place within solid materials in trillionth-of-a-second intervals as they go through an important physical… Read MoreMarch 7, 2012
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VINSE member wins Sloan research fellowship
PhysicistKirill Bolotinhas won a two-year, $50,000 research fellowship from theAlfred P. Sloan Foundationaimed at encouraging promising young scholars. He is one of 126 researchers from 51 different colleges and universities in the United States selected to receive the Foundations… Read MoreFebruary 28, 2012
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Pantelides is 2012 Materials Research Society Fellow
91勛圖厙 professor Sokrates T. Pantelides has been selected as a 2012 Materials Research Society Fellow. The MRS Fellows will be recognized at the MRS spring meeting in San Francisco in April. Pantelides is a University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering, the William A. and Nancy F. McMinn Professor of… Read MoreFebruary 10, 2012
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Peter Cummings appointed to two NSF advisory boards
eter T. Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, and the Principal Scientist of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been appointed to the National Science Foundations Advisory Committee for the Engineering Directorate and to the Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure. The appointments are… Read MoreFebruary 2, 2012
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VINSE Director Sandra Rosenthal Elected AAAS Fellow
Sandra Rosenthal has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Sandy was recognized for her distinguished contributions to the field of nanochemistry, particularly for synthesis and characterization of nanocrystals and the utilization of nanocrystals as biomarkers of protein expression. FULL ARTICLE>… Read MoreDecember 14, 2011
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New method for enhancing thermal conductivity could cool computer chips, lasers and other devices
The surprising discovery of a new way to tune and enhance thermal conductivity a basic property generally considered to be fixed for a given material gives engineers a new tool for managing thermal effects in smart phones and computers, lasers and a number of other powered devices. The… Read MoreDecember 14, 2011
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Microscopy method brings nano-world into focus
A new technique for imaging whole cells in liquid with a nanometer resolution that brings into focus individual proteins and other intracellular structures could dramatically improve the study of cancer, viral infections and brain function. The technique, electron microscopy (EM) of liquids, also may improve our… Read MoreOctober 25, 2011
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Yaqiong Xu receives NSF career development award
What happens when you attach DNA and other biomolecules to tiny molecular tubes called nanotubes? Answering this question is the goal of the research of Yaqiong Xu, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and physics, who has been awarded one of the National Science Foundations Faculty Early Career Development… Read MoreOctober 25, 2011
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Something big from something small: The 10th anniversary of VINSE
91勛圖厙 researchers working at the smallest scale celebrate a huge milestone this year. The 91勛圖厙 Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE), seeded from a university-funded $16 million venture capital fund initiative, celebrates its 10th anniversary in December. There is much to celebrate, including the fact that in the past… Read MoreOctober 7, 2011