The week of August 8, 2022 was an exciting one for Dr. Eric Josephs, an Assistant Professor at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering’s (JSNN) Department of Nanoscience. His lab was informed that they had won two grants from the NIH: A R21 from the NIH/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for $400,000 […]

Collaborative industrial partnerships with the expertise of the JSNN faculty. The Institute aims to attain national distinction as a science, engineering, and nanotechnology research and innovation hub for the Triad region, and it is constantly adding new instrumentation and expanding its network of collaborators and external users to support its mission. The JSIRT’s unabated growth […]

GREENSBORO, N.C. (July 18, 2022) – Following a national search, the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) has named Dr. Emanuel Waddell as Chair of the Department of Nanoengineering effective August 1, 2022.   Dr. Waddell brings a wealth of experiences that are necessary for the Department of Nanoengineering’s future growth. He has spent the […]

A US Patent No. 11,384,286 filed on September 30, 2020 titled “GaAs1-x­Sbx Nanowires on a Graphitic Substrate” was issued on July 12, 2022. The work was done at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering by our very own:  Dr. Shanthi Iyer, Dr. Surya Nalamati and Dr. Jia Li. The patent describes novel approaches for growing the […]

The American Chemical Society (ACS), founded in 1876 and chartered by the U.S. Congress, is one of the world’s largest scientific organizations, with a membership of over 151,000 and an active presence in 140 countries.  ACS has 32 technical divisions that provide expertise and networking opportunities in all traditional and interdisciplinary areas of chemistry, including […]

Porous materials such as zeolites and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have a variety of applications, including the preparation of ion exchange resins, gas separation agents, and catalysts for the oil industry.  In a new research project developed entirely at the JSNN, Associate Professor of Nanoscience Hemali Rathnayake and coworkers have prepared and fully characterized a novel thermally and […]

The interaction of synthetic organic and inorganic nanomaterials with living cells is a critical area of research that several faculty members at the JSNN are pursuing and has potential applications in medicine, including drug delivery and tissue engineering. Tetyana Ignatova, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nanoscience at the JSNN, in collaboration with colleagues at […]

On Friday afternoon, June 24th, the Summer 2022 Draelos Science Scholars program kicked off at the JSNN with a White Coat Ceremony.  Drs. Michael and Zoe Draelos, who have provided the funding for the program since its inception in 2016, bestowed on each high school student participant a white laboratory coat embroidered with the scholar’s […]

Dr. Hemali Rathnayake has been honored with one of the 2022 TechConnect Innovation Awards given annually at the TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo, the world’s largest and longest running nanotechnology event, held on June 13-15, 2022, in Washington, DC.  Partnering with Minerva Lithium LLC, a UNCG spinoff company founded in 2020 by Dr. Rathnayake […]

Congratulations to Dr. Reza Zadegan on winning the National Institutes of Health Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Award on a project titled “Developing DNA-Based Molecular Robots”.