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Episode 30 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Daniel Shae tells Alice Leach about a cancer vaccine that enhances the body鈥檚 immune response to tumor cells. 聽Daniel鈥檚 paper “Co-delivery of Peptide Neoantigens and Stimulator of Interferon Genes Agonists Enhances Response to Cancer Vaccines” was published in ACS Nano. 聽Daniel… Read More

Episode 29 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Keefer Rowan tells Alice Leach about time-dependent phenomena in atoms 鈥� the building blocks of matter. 聽Rowan鈥檚 paper “Simulation of a hydrogen atom in a laser field using the time-dependent variational principle” was published in Physical Review E. 聽Keefer (Vandy undergraduate)… Read More

Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering, spent 20 minutes describing his optical nanotweezers to a panel of five distinguished professors from the United States, Australia, and China during a live online competition鈥擱ising Stars of Light鈥攖hat has drawn 260,000 viewers worldwide. After two sessions in which 10 finalists presented their… Read More

There is huge momentum toward adoption of battery electric vehicles primarily because performances are聽meeting or exceeding聽the properties of traditional automobiles. Consumers want electric vehicles that have similar driving range (energy density) and charging styles and times (power density) to gasoline powered vehicles. Kelsey Hatzell 鈥淥ne pathway to improving the… Read More

Episode 28 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Zhiliang Pan tells Alice Leach thermal transport in nanowires with unique structures. 聽Zhiliang鈥檚 paper ” Net negative contributions of free electrons to the thermal conductivity of NbSe3 nanowires ” was published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 聽Zhiliang is a 3rd year… Read More

Episode 27 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Isom Kelly tells Alice Leach about porous silicon nanoparticles – tiny chunks of silicon that can be used as drug delivery vehicles. Isom鈥檚 paper “Tuning Composition of Polymer and Porous Silicon Composite Nanoparticles for Early Endosome Escape of Anti-microRNA Peptide Nucleic… Read More

Episode 26 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Chris Stachurski tells Alice Leach about carbon dots – tiny luminescent particles of carbon. Chris鈥檚 paper ” Optical and electrochemical tuning of hydrothermally synthesized nitrogen-doped carbon dots” was published in Nanoscale Advances. Chris is a 5th year chemistry graduate student in… Read More

Episode 25 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Nidhi Jyotsana tells Alice Leach how our knowledge of cancer can inform our study of COVID-19. Nidhi鈥檚 paper “The Impact of COVID-19 on Cancer Risk and Treatment” was published in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Nidhi was a Research Assistant Professor in… Read More

  VINSE is pleased to announce virtual tours are now available for聽our Analytical Lab and Cleanroom. Analytical Lab聽Tour Cleanroom Tour    … Read More

Congratulations to the winners at the VINSE 2020 NanoDay! Poster Session 1st Place 鈥� $500 Jenna Mosier,聽Biomedical Engineering Advisor:聽Cynthia Reinhart-King 鈥淢odeling Mechanical and Metabolic Memory of Confined Cancer Cells Using Collagen Microtracks鈥� 2nd Place 鈥� $250 Jeremy Espano,聽Interdisciplinary Materials Science Advisor:聽Janet Macdonald 鈥淧hase Control… Read More