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Emilie Ringe was one of the 58 scientist and engineers from 41 research institutions and small business who received the Air Force’s Young Investigator Research Program (YIP). The selected people will receive the grant over a 3 year period. 230 … Continue reading →

Dayne Swearer collaborated with members from both Naomi Halas and Peter Nordlander groups to study the photocatalytic activity of Al-Pd nanodisk heterodimers. To find more about the article, click here.

Anthony has accepted a tenure track faculty position in the chemistry department at Ohio University.  He will be teaching courses in forensic chemistry and microscopy.  For his research projects, Anthony will focus on applying single particle methodologies to the study … Continue reading →

The Scientific Exchange (SciX) conference is presented by the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS). Where leading scientists gather to present research updates and network. Emilie Ringe presented a talk entitled “Active Control of Near-Field Distribution in Plasmonic … Continue reading →

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 →