Author Archives: Ed

Sofia is a freshman from Philadelphia planning to major in Materials Science and NanoEngineering. She will be helping out with DDSCAT simulations in the Ringe group this semester. Matthew Chagnot is a sophomore Materials Science and NanoEngineering student, also pursuing … Continue reading →

John Biggins gave a seminar to the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department on September 1st entitled “Soft Solid Elasticity: Folding, Wrinkling, and Beading”. He presented an interesting approach to the formation of biological organs.

Prof Ringe gave the O-week faculty address, where she discussed nano materials in a TED talk style with the entire undergraduate incoming class. Additional information about the event can be found HERE.

Dayne Swearer and coworkers’ transmission electron microscope image gets selected to be published at the Wall Street in an article called “Tiny Portraits of the Natural World”. The article describes how researchers use high-tech tools to explore natural phenomena, on … Continue reading →

Dayne publishes his paper on heterometallic antenna-reactor Al-Pd nanoparticle and their potential for plasmon-induced photocatalysis. His work was featured by the National Science Foundation, Phys.Org, EurekaAlert, amongst others. You can find a link to the paper here.

This week, Emilie Ringe came back from China, where she taught a 5-day class on NanoEngineering. the class was hosted by the Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Science of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in … Continue reading →

Lauren McCarthy joined the Ringe group for the summer! She graduated from the University of Florida, with a bachelors in science in chemistry. She received the prestigious NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and decided to come to Rice after being … Continue reading →

Dayne Swearer presented a poster at the Gordon Research conference – Noble metal Nanoparticles. His poster was entitled: “Heterometallic Antenna-Reactor Nanostructures for Photocatalysis”. After reviewing his poster, he was selected to give a talk at the meeting!

Camden Dore, a sophomore undergraduate student at Lone Star College, is going to be joining the Ringe group for a 10-week research experience for undergraduates (REU) funded by the NSF. Camden will be working closely with Eduardo Villarreal, conducting research … Continue reading →

On Monday, May 16th, the Ringe group presented four science modules at The Lighthouse of Houston, a place dedicated to serve blind and visually impaired people.   Anthony Stender presented a module entitled “Scale Analysis”, where he explained the concept of … Continue reading →