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$500 1st place  (1 award) $250 2nd place (2 awards) $100 3rd place  (3 awards) The ×ÔοÊÓƵ Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Materials Science are pleased to co-host the 20th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum.  This forum brings together ×ÔοÊÓƵ scientists and… Read More

Funding is being made available by VINSE on a competitive basis to provide ×ÔοÊÓƵ investigators the opportunity to utilize VINSE tools to obtain preliminary results for new research initiatives prior to submitting grant applications. Applications from new users interested in demonstrating the feasibility of a new process or measurement are… Read More

Sharon Weiss was one of seven ×ÔοÊÓƵ professors who won a Chancellor’s Award for Research at the Fall Faculty Assembly Aug. 22. This award recognizes excellence in works published or presented in the last three calendar years. Honorees each receive $2,000 and an engraved julep cup. Weiss, Cornelius ×ÔοÊÓƵ Professor… Read More

The ×ÔοÊÓƵ Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) is holding a competition seeking images to be displayed in the VINSE Facilities.  If you have materials or devices that have been fabricated, characterized, or imaged using VINSE equipment, submit them to vinse@vanderbilt.edu for consideration. The winners of this… Read More

Goal: Create an attractive T-shirt design representing NANODAY! & the ×ÔοÊÓƵ Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Winning design will receive a cash prize of $300.00 The design must be exclusively your own and cannot include : logos and trademark images You can use any t-shirt color in your design JPEG format… Read More

October 16, 2019 Joan Redwing Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering Penn State University "Epitaxial growth of 2D materials: Challenges and New Approaches"  4:10 PM, 134 Featheringill Hall Refreshments served at 3:45… Read More

Sharon Weiss, Cornelius ×ÔοÊÓƵ Professor of Engineering, professor of electrical engineering and physics and deputy director of the ×ÔοÊÓƵ Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE), will become the new director of VINSE, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente… Read More

The simplest home medical tests might look like a deck of various silicon chips coated in special film, one that could detect drugs in the blood, another for proteins in the urine indicating infection, another for bacteria in water and the like. Add the bodily fluid you want to test,… Read More

2019 Summer Nanoseminar Schedule The VINSE summer nanoseminar series provides an opportunity for graduate students or post-docs to share their current research with the larger VINSE community to foster discussion and collaboration.  Each seminar will consist of 2 talks of 15-20 minutes each with 10-15 minutes of questions.  The goal… Read More

Kelsey Hatzell, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. . The five-year, $515,600 grant— Understanding Interfaces in Solid State Energy Storage Systems and Cross-Disciplinary Education—begins June 1, 2019. Advanced lithium-ion batteries for vehicles and for renewable electricity grid storage could improve… Read More