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April 2008 - Prof. Kalyon's work highlighted on IOP's nanotechweb.org 'Technology Update'
Nanotechweb.org, a community website from the Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, recently highlighted research in the Kalyon group developing a hybrid twin screw extrusion/electrospinning method to process nanoparticle-incorporated electrospun nanofibers. The continuous process enables the incorporation of solid nanomaterials within electrospun fibres in a well-dispersed and spatially controlled manner. Working with Prof. Kalyon (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science) and Prof. Hongjun Wang (Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Biomedical Engineering), PhD student Cevat Erisken used the technique to produce nanocomposite fibers 200–2000 nm in diameter of beta-tricalciumphosphate nanoparticles in polycaprolactone (Nanotechnology 19, 165302). The full story on the nanotechweb.org website can be viewed here.
April 2008 - SPIE awards scholarship for nanotechnology work
SPIE has awarded a scholarship to Ms. Yun Han, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (CEMS) to pursue her doctoral thesis research in the area of integration of nanotechnology with photonic crystal fiber (PCF) for sensing applications. Working under the supervision of Professor Henry Du of CEMS and Professor Svetlana Sukhishvili of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, her research seeks to use silver and gold nanoparticles to impart surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) functionality into PCF to develop SERS-active PCF sensing platform. For more information, see the Stevens press release here.
March 2008 - Prof. Costas Chassapis PI of $3M NSF grant for Multiscale Engineered Systems Research
Professor Costas Chassapis of Mechanical Engineering is PI of a recently awarded $3M grant from NSF's Graduate Education Division and the GK-12 program. The grant will provide support for up to 10 Stevens doctoral students per year over a 5 year period conducting research in the broad area of multiscale engineered systems. As part of the GK-12 program, PhD students will disseminate their research results to several participating high schools within the framework of the New Jersey Alliance for Engineering Education (NJAEE). The team includes Professors Sven Esche and Frank Fisher from Mechanical Engineering, Professor Rustam Stolkin from CEOE, Professor Lechler from the Howe School, and Elisabeth McGrath, Director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE). US citizens and permanent residents who are interested in this program and enrolling in the PhD program at Stevens should email Professor Chassapis for more information. For more information, see the Stevens press release here.
Jan 2008 - Prof. EH Yang's paper one of the most-accessed articles in the journal Nanotechnology for the Year 2007
Prof. EH Yang (Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering) was co-author on a paper that was one of the most-accessed articles in the journal Nanotechnology in the area of 'Patterning and Nanofabrication' for the Year 2007. The article, entitled 'Hierarchical Magnetic Assembly of Nanowires' was also selected as the cover article in the May 23, 2007 issue of the journal.
Jan 2008 - Professor Chang-Hwan Choi's work selected as Image of Year 2007 in Biomaterials
An image from a paper by Prof. Chang-Hwan Choi of the Mechanical Engineering Department and co-workers at UCLA was selected as one of 12 Images of the Year 2007 by the journal Biomaterials. The article describes the use of well-defined nanostructures on silicon surfaces to study how cells sense and respond to the three-dimensional nature of their environment. The selected figure shows a fluorescence microscopy image of an immunostained fibroblast cell grown on the three-dimensional sharp-tip nanostructures. The abstract of the article is here
Jan 2008 - Professor Svetlana Sukhishvili elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Dr. Svetlana Sukhishvili, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Co-Director of the Nanotechnology Graduate Program at Stevens Institute of Technology, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Sukhishvili was elected a Fellow for her fundamental contributions to the science of polymer monolayers and multilayers adsorbed at water/solid interface, and for understanding the correlations of polymeric self-assembly in solutions and at surfaces.
Dec 2007 - Professor EH Yang (ME) receives three-year AFOSR grant
Prof. Yang (PI) and his team was awarded a 3 year Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) grant for CNT research. The project team consists of 3 Stevens faculty members (Profs. Yang and Fisher of Mechanical Engineering, and Prof. Strauf in Physics and Engineering Physics) and Prof. Dan Choi at the University of Idaho. The team will exploit novel CNT structures and investigate their electron energy properties for future high-speed, low-power electronics applications.
Dec 2007 - Professor Strauf of PEP publishes cover article in Nature Photonics
With colleagues at UC Santa Barbara and Leiden University (Netherlands), Professor Stefan Strauf of the Physics and Engineering Physics department is first author of the article 'High-frequency single-photon source with polarization control', the cover article of the December 2007 issue of Nature Photonics. As described in the News & Views section of that issue, 'More futuristic applications [of single photon states] include photonic networks designed to achieve scalable quantum computation, which one day will hopefully solve problems exponentially faster than classical computers' and '[the article] reports on important advances in high-performance single-photon sources that bring such possibilities closer to reality.' In particular, single photons can be used to implement absolutely secure optical communication also known as Quantum Cryptography. A one page interview with Professor Strauf was also published in this issue.
Sept 2007 - Mike Treder from the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology opens the 2007 Nanoseminar Series
Mike Treder, co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, kicked off this year's Nanotechnology Graduate Program seminar series with a discussion of the societal implications of molecular manufacturing. He blogged about his visit here.
Sept 2007 - Professor Libera leads team of researchers awarded an NSF Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Research Team grant
NSF CBET-0708379 - NIRT: Self-Assembled Nanohydrogels for Differential Cell Adhesion and Infection Control
Professors Matt Libera, Woo Lee, and Hongjun Wang (CBME) and Svetlana Sukhishvili (Chemistry) received a four-year grant from NSF to study the design of tailored surfaces based on the self-assembly of nanohydrogels.
July 2007 - 1st Annual Liberty Metro Area MEMS/NEMS workshop to be held at Stevens
On Monday July 23 a one day workshop will be held to facilitate communication and collaboration between NYC metro area researchers in the MEMS/NEMS area. Research, insight, and then applications of MEMS/NEMS will shape the basis for the creation of technologies that will impact areas as diverse as information technology and biomedical technology along with energy, transportation, robotics, manufacturing, deep space studies, and national security.
July 2007 - Professor Xiaojun Yu Receives a Major Research Grant from The Coulter Foundation
The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation recently announced that it has just awarded a $240K grant to Prof. Xiaojun Yu (Biomedical Engineering) for his research project titled "Novel structured nanofibrous scaffolds for bone healing."
June 2007 - Nanotechnology Graduate Program presented at the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Conference
A talk entitled 'A Cross-Disciplinary Graduate Degree Concentration in Nanotechnology' by Professors Fisher, Sukhishvili, and Du is presented within the Multidisciplinary Engineering Division at the 2007 ASEE Conference in Hobolulu, HI.
June 2007 - Prof. Shi's Research on Nano Active Fiber Composites (AFCs) Recognized by the American Society for Nondestructive Testing
Prof. Yong Shi and his PhD student Shiyou Xu (Mechanical Engineering) have been selected to receive the 2007 American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Fellowship Award for their research on 'Fabrication and Characterization of Nano Active Fiber Composites as Acoustic Emission Sensors' during the 2007 ASNT Fall Conference and Quality Testing Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 12-16, 2007.
Dec 2006 - NANO 525 / Ch 525: Techniques of Surface and Nanostructure Characterization to be offered Spring 2007 semester
The course will introduce students to the fundamentals, instrumentation, and applications of common analytical tools for surface and nanostructure characterization. The students will acquire the knowledge necessary for the selection of most suitable techniques and for the interpretation of the resultant information relevant to surface science and nanotechnology. Techniques covered within the class include: transmission electron microscopy (TEM), electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Auger electron spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), BET technique, dynamic laser light scattering (DLLS) for nanoparticle sizing and zeta-potential measurements, ellipsometry,and atomic force microscopy (AFM). For more information, please email Prof. Sukhishvili
Sept 2006 - NANO 600: Nanoscale Science and Technology first offered
Professors Cui (PEP), Du (CBME), Fisher (ME), and Sukhishvili (CCB) co-develop and co-teach NANO 600 for the first time. Topics for student projects and term papers include: - Nanoparticle separation by microfluidic systems
- Photonic crystal fiber with nano-structured coatings
- Nanotechnology approaches for cancer treatment
- Quasi-one-dimensional zinc oxides
- Nano-crystalline titanium dioxide
- Nanotubes for solar cell applications
- Applications of Si nanodots
- PLGA-MWNT nanocomposite nanofibers for tissue engineering applications
- Nanophotonics and SERS
- Nanoscale intelligent sensors
- Nanoscale thermoelectric materials and devices.
Aug 2006 - Professor Matt Libera (CBME) receives NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant
NSF DMR-0619355 - MRI: Acquisition of a Dip Pen Nanolithography System for Surface Nanofunctionalization
Dip-pen nanolithography (DPN) is among the newest and most advanced scientific tools for controlling how the surfaces of materials interact with their surroundings. DPN can create patterns that are almost 1000 times smaller than those in state-of-the-art electronic devices like advanced computer chips. Furthermore, DPN can deposit as little as a few molecules at each point in the surface pattern, and this capability gives scientists and engineers impressive new control over chemical reactions that occur at very specific points on a surface. We will use DPN in research projects to learn how individual cells behave when they stick to a surface, to develop new sensors that can detect trace quantities of harmful chemicals, and to build new tools for biomedical research and clinical diagnostics. We will also use the DPN system as a new part of a very successful program called Project SEED that provides summer internships to underpriviledged high-school students. We expect that introducing these students to some of the exciting opportunities associated with nanotechnology will help encourage them to pursue a college education and work towards careers in science and engineering.
Aug 2006 - Professor Frank Fisher (ME) receives NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant
NSF DMI-0619762 - MRI: Acquisition of an Instrument for Nanoscale Manipulation and Experimental Characterization
This grant provides funding to acquire a state-of-the-art nanomanipulation and visualization system for scientific research and training in prototyping, characterization, and performance evaluation of functional nanostructures and micro/nanoscale devices and systems. This system will provide nanometer-resolution, scanning electron microscope (SEM)-compatible manipulation capability and enable critical nanoscale experimental investigations spanning many key emerging nano/microtechnology areas at Stevens, including: nanomaterials development/characterization, nano/micro sensors and actuators, and micro-chemical and micro-mechanical systems. Efforts in these research areas will greatly benefit from the controllable three-dimensional nanoscale manipulation with simultaneous visualization capabilities provided by this system, with these new experimental capabilities resulting from this instrumentation funding leading to enhanced understanding of critical nanoscale phenomena in these research areas. The system will strongly support research and educational initiatives underway at Stevens in the areas of nanotechnology and multiscale engineering.
Mar 2006 - Nanotechnology Graduate Program (NPG) approved by Graduate Curriculum Committee
The Nanotechnology Graduate Program (NGP) degree concentration is formally approved by the Institute Graduate Curriculum Committee. The Program is the result of several brainstorming sessions of the Faculty Working Group on Nanotechnology Graduate Education led by Professor Henry Du of CBME to create the necessary educational infrastructure equip Stevens’ graduate students with the interdisciplinary intellectual capacity necessary to compete and excel in the ever expanding world of nanotechnology. Members of the Faculty Working Group include: Prof. Kurt Becker (PEP), Prof. Hong-Liang Cui (PEP), Prof. Henry Du (CBME), Prof. Frank Fisher (ME), Prof. Xiaoguang Meng (CEOE), Prof. Yong Shi (ME), Prof. Svetlana Sukhishvili (CCB), and Prof. Hongjun Wang (CBME).
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