October 2020

Two federal grants, $2.1 million from the NSF and $1.8 million from the DOE, are enabling engineers to reimagine how regional transit systems operate, making them more accessible and efficient. Both projects, headed by Abhishek Dubey, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, are with the Chattanooga Area Regional… Read More

Membrane desalination is an efficient way to desalinate water but maintaining uniformity of the pore size is a challenge. A single “large” hole can cause high leakage, compromise membrane performance and contaminate the water. How do you drill trillions of holes between the size of 0.3 and 0.6 nanometers over… Read More

A research team that includes Vanderbilt engineers is the first to successfully separate two ions with minute small size differences, a major advancement in separation science with widespread potential application. Their process is first to achieve solute-solute separation with sub-Angstrom precision. An Angstrom is one hundred-millionth of a centimeter, or… Read More

NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY An introduction to membrane nanoscience by Peifu Cheng, postdoctoral scholar, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Membrane research has significantly benefited from nanotechnology, and many sectors of the global ecosystem have benefited from membrane research. Water treatment or desalination is one example. Membranes with nanoscale pores also are… Read More