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Emmanuel Dabuo Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Materials Science Caldwell Research Group Before coming to Vanderbilt, Emmanuel was convinced his research would center on 2D materials, particularly graphene, for solar energy applications. That changed during a rotation in Prof. Caldwell鈥檚 lab, where he was introduced to defect characterization in… Read More

  Congratulations to Emma Endres, Ph.D., a recent graduate from the Janet Macdonald Lab! Emma’s paper, “Directing Cation Coordination and Phase in Nickel Sulfide Nanocrystals through the Addition of Phosphines,” published in Chemistry of Materials, has been selected as this week’s spotlight publication. This work was a collaborative effort… Read More

Thaissa Peixoto Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering Gonzales Research Group I used to ask my favorite psychology professors whether they needed an electrical engineer in their lab. They mostly said no, and I couldn鈥檛 blame them. I was pretty sure the two things I loved had nothing to do… Read More

VINSE has opened its annual image competition to showcase new images for display within the VINSE Facilities. If you have materials or devices that have been fabricated, characterized, or imaged using VINSE equipment, submit your entries to VINSE by August 15. Image enhancement and false coloring is… Read More

Michael McNeill Graduate Student, Chemistry Hanusa Research Group My pursuit of organometallic research began during my undergraduate studies at Saint Joseph鈥檚 University under the direction of Dr. Graham. When I joined the lab, I was introduced to elements across the periodic table for the first time. Working with… Read More

A. Schematic illustration of a sensory ring bonded to an airway stent, a wearable magnetic field generator mounted on a human chest for monitoring stent migration within the human trachea. B. More detailed illustration of the wearable magnetic field generator mounted on the human body, showing the external magnet as… Read More

Check out this week鈥檚 VINSE Spotlight Publication from the Lippmann Lab featuring Dr. Daniel Chavarria and former School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt (SSMV) student Immanuel Ojetola, who served as the paper鈥檚 second author while conducting this work at Vanderbilt. Their paper, 鈥淭olerances in microfluidic master molds: a… Read More

Congratulations to Chloe Frame, Ph.D., a former member of the McCabe Lab in VINSE! Chloe鈥檚 paper, 鈥淢ultiscale simulation of stratum corneum lipid mixtures: effects of ceramide headgroups on structural organization and hydrogen bonding networks,鈥� was selected for a special issue honoring pioneer skin lipid researcher Professor聽Joke Bouwstra. The outermost layer… Read More

Ryan Anthony Kowalski, from Taunton, Massachusetts, is this year鈥檚 Founder鈥檚 Medalist for the Graduate School. He is graduating with a聽doctor of philosophy in interdisciplinary materials science. Kowalski is the first student from the interdisciplinary materials science (IMS) program to receive this honor. Kowalski鈥檚 research… Read More

Congratulations to Emma Bartelsen and the team members in the Caldwell lab. Emma’s paper published in ACS Photonics “Multiresonant Nondispersive Infrared Gas Sensing: Breaking the Selectivity and Sensitivity Trade-Off,鈥� has been selected as a VINSE Spotlight publication. This work demonstrates a new approach to non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) gas sensing using… Read More