{"id":325,"date":"2023-11-13T20:54:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/mntfl\/?page_id=325"},"modified":"2023-11-13T21:09:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T21:09:28","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/mntfl\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>2017<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>November<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Our paper &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/acs.nanolett.7b02380\">Ballistic phonon penetration depth in amorphous silicon dioxide<\/a>&#8221; was published in\u00a0<em>Nano Letters<\/em>. Congratulations! Lin!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>October<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Lin successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation proposal. Well done!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>September<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">MNTFL welcomes our newest member, undergraduate student, Sara Tsai! Welcome!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>August<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">MNTFL welcomes our newest member, Matthew Fitzgerald! Welcome!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>June<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Qian successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations! Dr. Zhang!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>May<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Our paper &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/acs.nanolett.7b00666\">Defect Facilitated Phonon Transport through Kinks in Boron Carbide Nanowires<\/a>&#8221; was accepted by\u00a0<em>Nano Letters<\/em>. Congratulations! Qian!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yin has successfully defended his dissertation at Southeast University and will continue to stay at Southeast University as a lecturer. Congratulations! Dr. Zhang!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>April<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Lin, Yin, and Qian went to Las Vegas to present their research at the 2nd\u00a0Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC) and the 4th\u00a0International Workshop on Heat Transfer (IWHT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Lijie successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations! Dr. Yang!<\/p>\n<h1>2016<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>September<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Our paper &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2016\/nr\/c6nr06302k#!divCitation\">Thermal conductivity of individual silicon nanoribbons<\/a>&#8221; was accepted by\u00a0<em>Nanoscale<\/em>. Congratulations! Lin, Yang, and Qian!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Qian successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation proposal. One more step to go.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>August<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">MNTFL welcomes our newest members, Yuanzhe Liang and Yang Zhao! Welcome!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>July<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Kirsten successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations! Dr. Kirsten Dodson!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Lin and Dr. Li went to Washington D.C. to present our research on ASME 2016 Heat Transfer, Fluids Engineering &amp; Nanochannels, Microchannels &amp; Minichannels Conferences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>May<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span class=\"STYLE16\">Professor Li was promoted to the rank of Professor of Mechanical Engineering with tenure. Congratulations, Professor Li!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/2016\/dean-presents-2015-2016-faculty-staff-and-student-research-awards\/\">VU Website Report<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>February<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Lijie successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation proposal. The Ph.D. title is waving hands. Well Done!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jan<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Dr. Li, Kirsten, and Lijie went to Singapore to present their research at the ASME 2015 Micro\/Nanoscale Heat &amp; Mass Transfer International Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Prof. Lifei Chen finished her 1-year stay at MNTFL. She went back to China to continue her research. Wish you all the best!<\/p>\n<h1>2015<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>November<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Kirsten successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation proposal. Only 1 more step to go. Well Done!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Jian and Qian attended the ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Houston, TX.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>September<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Jian Ma finished a year&#8217;s stay at MNTFL as a visiting scholar. He will go back to Southeast University to finish his PhD study. We wish you all the best back in China.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>July<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Dr.Li hosts a farewell grill party for Bryson. Bryson will move to Atlanta to start his industry career. Wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE4\"><strong>March<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Bryson Brewer has successfully defended his PhD. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Brewer!<\/p>\n<h1>2014<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>December<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">MNTFL welcomes our newest member, Yin Zhang! Yin will stay at MNTFL for two years as a visiting scholar.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>November<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Bryson Brewer, Lijie, Kirsten, and Dr. Li attended the ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Professor Lifei Chen from Shanghai Second Polytechnic University joined MNTFL as a visiting professor. Welcome!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>August<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">MNTFL welcomes our newest member, Lin Yang! Lin joined MNTFL as a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering starting in August.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>June<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Professor Naiqin Zhao has finished her 3 months visit and returned back to Tianjin University. We wish you all the best in the future!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>April<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Our paper &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/accepted\/3b075Y57S8c10c484177262538c72477c72f99edd\">Phonon transport through point contacts between graphitic nanomaterials<\/a>&#8221; was accepted by Physical Review Letter. Dr. Juekuan Yang, congratulations!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>March<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Professor Naiqin Zhao from Tianjin University arrived in Nashville and spent 3 months at MNTFL as a visiting professor. Welcome!<\/p>\n<h1>2013<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>December<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Bryson Brewer and Dr. Li attended the ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition and the ASME 2013 Micro\/Nanoscale Heat &amp; Mass Transfer International Conference.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span class=\"STYLE4\">September<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Jian Ma joined MNTFL as a visiting scholar starting in September 2013. Welcome!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span class=\"STYLE4\">August<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Dr. Li received the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/2013\/sutherland-prize-chancellor%E2%80%99s-research-award-go-to-engineers\/\">Chancellor&#8217;s Award<\/a>\u00a0for research, which recognizes excellence in research, scholarship, or creative expression. Congratulations!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span class=\"STYLE4\">July<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yang and Kyle successfully defended their Ph.D. Dissertation and Master&#8217;s Thesis, respectively. Congratulations! Wish you all the best in the future!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span class=\"STYLE4\">March<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\"><span class=\"STYLE4\">Another year, another NSF Graduate Research Fellow! Congratulations to Kirsten for winning the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!<\/span><a class=\"STYLE4\" href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2013\/09\/nsf-fellowships-2\/\">\u00a0VU Website Report<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>2012<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE4\"><strong>November<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">Congratulations to Kyle for winning the National Defense Industrial Association Tennessee Valley Chapter Space &amp; Missile Defense Working Group Graduate Fellowship!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE4\"><strong>August<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">MNTFL welcomes our newest members: Virginia, Lijie, and Kirsten.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE4\"><strong>July<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">MNTFL is part of an interdisciplinary team aiming to create &#8220;microbrain reactor&#8221;.<a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2012\/07\/microbrain\/?utm_source=vuhomepage&amp;utm_medium=newsbox&amp;utm_campaign=microbrain\">\u00a0VU webpage report<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE4\"><strong>March<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">Bryson wins the highly competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and becomes the first recipient of an NSF fellowship at MNTFL, congratulations!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">Yang passed his thesis proposal, only one step away from obtaining his doctorate title, congratulations!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">Dr. Li, Yang, and Bryson attended and presented research on MNTFL at the ASME 2012 3rd Micro\/Nanoscale Heat &amp; Mass Transfer International Conference held in Atlanta, GA.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span class=\"STYLE4\">February<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">Yandong headed to California to take a postdoc associate position at UC Davis, congratulations and wish you all the best!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span class=\"STYLE4\">January<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">Kyle joined MNTFL as a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering beginning in the spring semester, welcome!<\/p>\n<h1>2011<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE4\"><strong>December<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">MNTFL&#8217;s paper &#8220;Enhanced and switchable nanoscale thermal conduction due to van der Waals interfaces&#8221; was published in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/doifinder\/10.1038\/nnano.2011.216\"><em>Nature Nanotechnology<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/2011\/new-method-for-enhancing-thermal-conductivity-could-cool-computer-chips-lasers-and-other-devices\/\">VU Website Report<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE4\"><strong>November<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">Dr. Li hosts a farewell dinner party for Juekuan. Juekuan will be back in China and continue his academic career at Southeast University. We wish you all the best, Professor Yang!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">Yang is invited as the only graduate student speaker at the 12th Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) Nanoday event!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE4\"><strong>September<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">Yandong defends his thesis titled &#8220;Microfluidic Platforms for Cell Culture and Microenvironment Control&#8221;, Congratulations, Dr. Gao!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE4\"><strong>August<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Qian joins MNTFL as a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, Welcome!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">As a poster award winner in the MRS Spring meeting, Yang was nominated by MRS to take part in the MRS\/MRS-Mexico Student Poster Award Exchange Program and go to the 2011 International Materials Research Congress in Cancun, Mexico.Congratulations and enjoy the beach, Yang!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">Yanyan left and finished her two-year stay with us as a visiting student. She will go back to China to do her Ph.D. thesis defense. Wish you all the best in the future!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE4\"><strong><span class=\"STYLE15\">April<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\"><span class=\"STYLE18\">Congratulations to Yang for winning the Best Poster Award at the Materials Research Society(MRS) Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2011!<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE4\"><strong>March<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\" align=\"justify\">Yandong defends his proposal, congratulations!<\/p>\n<h1>2010<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE16\"><strong>December<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE16\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Dr. Li hosts a farewell dinner party for Jiashu. Every group member enjoys a wonderful time with Dr. Sun!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE16\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Jiashu defended her thesis and became the second female Ph.D. graduate from MNTFL. Congratulations, Dr. Sun!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE16\"><strong>October<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE16\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Congratulations to Juekuan and Yang! Their poster &#8220;Diameter dependent contact thermal resistance between individual multi-walled carbon nanotubes&#8221; won 3rd place in the 2010 VINSE Nanoday Poster competition!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE16\"><strong>September<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE16\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Min left today and finished his two-year stay with us as a visiting student. He will go back to China to do his Ph.D. thesis defense. We wish you all the best in the future and we miss you, Min!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE16\"><strong>August<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE16\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The newest member of MNTFL, Bryson Brewer, is in town, welcome!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE16\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Jiashu defends her proposal &#8220;Microfluidic Resistance Sensing For Single Cell Growth Rate Measurements And Cell Separation Characterization&#8221; today, congratulations!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE16\"><strong>April<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE16\">In a Board of Trust meeting today, Professor Li was promoted to Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering with tenure effective in the Fall Semester. Congratulations, Professor Li!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/2010\/engineering-faculty-promoted-annual-awards-presented\/\">VU Website Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"STYLE16\">Former group member Dr. Dongyan Xu will begin working as an assistant professor this fall at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, congratulations, Professor Xu!<\/p>\n<h1>2009<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE16\"><strong>December<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE16\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Saumitra defended his thesis and got his Ph.D. degree! The second Ph.D. graduate from MNTFL, congratulations!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE16\"><strong>September<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE16\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yanyan joins MNTFL as a visiting student from Southeast University, China, welcome!<\/p>\n<h1>2008<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>September<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Min joins MNTFL as a visiting student from Southeast University, China, welcome!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE16\"><strong>August<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE16\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yang joins MNTFL as a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, welcome!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE16\"><strong>July<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE16\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Dongyan defends her thesis and becomes the first Ph.D. graduate from MNTFL! She will head to the Bay Area to work as a post-doctoral research associate at UC Berkeley. Congratulations!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"STYLE16\"><strong>March<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"STYLE16\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Juekuan joins MNTFL as a post-doctoral research associate, welcome!<\/p>\n<h1>2007<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>June <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Professor Li won the prestigious National Science Foundation Career Award for &#8220;Fundamental Investigation and Thermal-Electrical Control of Ion, Fluid, and Biomolecular Transport through Nanochannels&#8221;. Congratulations, Professor Li!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 November Our paper &#8220;Ballistic phonon penetration depth in amorphous silicon dioxide&#8221; was published in\u00a0Nano Letters. Congratulations! Lin! October Lin successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation proposal. Well done! September MNTFL welcomes our newest member, undergraduate student, Sara Tsai! Welcome! August MNTFL welcomes our newest member, Matthew Fitzgerald! 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