Your assistant to keep you updated. Snippets on upcoming events, webinars, fellowship opportunities, news about facilities, publications, past event notes.
What's ahead in the month?
CMDIS Annual Research Symposium 2022 Abstract submissions are open (Submission deadline: October 7)
Join us to celebrate the transformative, innovative, and interdisciplinary research happening at the Center for Materials, Devices and Integrated Systems. Annual Research Symposium is on November 9, 2022. Read more..
RPI Reunion and Homecoming (Date: 7-9 October)
RPI alumni is coming back to campus for Reunion & Homecoming 2022. Read more..
CMDIS Research Focus Groups Dinner (RSVP by: October 12)
Faculty, researchers, and graduate students are invited to join Research Focus Groups Kick-Off Dinner on October 19, Wednesday, 5:00pm at Heffner Alumni House. During the dinner, you will have chance to interact with other researchers working in the same/similar areas, to exchange and share ideas and to learn about our opportunities and travel support program. Read more..
Webinars / Trainings
Materials Design Webinar (Date: 20 September, 1PM EDT)
Radionuclide Sequestration in MOFs: DFT Method Exploration and a Conceptualization of Graph Neural Networks. This webinar will be focused on two key scientific thrusts: Sequestration of radionuclides in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) using density functional theory and predicting the energy and stability of known and hypothetical crystals using a graph neural network. Read more…
Oxford Instruments Webinar (Date: 23 September, 11:00 EDT)
What can biological EDS do for you? The answers to FAQs on analytical biological electron microscopy? This webinar will cover some of the frequently asked questions about biological EDS, including how EDS can determine the distribution of native elements in cells, tissues and biomaterials, how the application of different stains can effect sample composition and subsequent imaging contrast, and how EDS can aid interpretation and identification of cellular ultrastructure. Read more..
Approaching deadlines
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships (22-621) (Application Deadline: 24 October)
It is an opportunity for highly qualified, recent doctoral scientists to carry out an integrated program of independent research and education. Fellows may engage in observational, instrumental, theoretical, laboratory or archival data research in any area of astronomy or astrophysics, in combination with a coherent educational plan for the duration of the fellowship. Read more..
Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellowships (Application Deadline: 5 November)
It is awarded to women from developing and emerging economies who are preparing for PhD or post-doctoral study in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) disciplines to pursue advanced graduate study at top universities in their disciplines abroad. Read more..
Amelia Earhart Fellowship (Application Deadline: 15 November)
It is awarded annually to women pursuing Ph.D. degrees in aerospace-related sciences or aerospace-related engineering. Read more..
The National GEM Consortium (Application Deadline: 15 November)
GEM offers MS and Ph.D. level students an outstanding opportunity and access to dozens of the top Engineering and Science firms and Universities in the nation. The GEM Fellowship was designed to focus on promoting opportunities for individuals to enter industry at the graduate level in areas such as research and development, product development, and other high level technical careers. GEM also offers exposure to a number of opportunities in academia. Read more..
John von Neumann Fellowship (Application Deadline: 22 November)
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Science, accepting applications from researchers in the broad domain of computational and applied mathematics. Read more..
Do you know?
Rigaku's XtaLAB SynergyS Dual Source Single Crystal Diffractometer is now open to all researchers. For more information or to request trainings, please communicate with Dr. Peter Bonitatibus (Contact: bonitp2@rpi.edu)
Recent publications in our radar
Chakrapani, V, Wang, C, Wang, Q, Smieszek, N. Direct determination of Mn valence states in mixed-valent manganates by photoluminescence spectroscopy. Surf Interface Anal. 2022; 1- 11. Link.
Chen, D., Lian, Z., Huang, X. et al. Excitonic insulator in a heterojunction moiré superlattice. Nat. Phys. (2022). Link.
Chen, D., Lian, Z., Huang, X. et al. Tuning moiré excitons and correlated electronic states through layer degree of freedom. Nat Commun 13, 4810 (2022). Link.
Hallenbeck, Z., Wertz, E. A., Super-Resolution Lifetime Imaging of Single Molecules Near Gold Bowtie Nanoparticles. Adv. Optical Mater. 2022, 2200480 Link.
Jeehwan Kim, Gyu-Chul Yi, Abdallah Ougazzaden, and Jian Shi , "Novel epitaxy of functional materials", Journal of Applied Physics 132, 060401 (2022) Link.
Overa, S., Crandall, B.S., Shrimant, B. et al. Enhancing acetate selectivity by coupling anodic oxidation to carbon monoxide electroreduction. Nat Catal 5, 738–745 (2022). Link.
Meunier V., Ania C., Bianco A., Chen Y., Choi G.B., Kim Y.A., Koratkar N., Liu C., Tascon J.M.D., Terrones M., “Carbon science perspective in 2022: Current research and future challenges”, (2022) Carbon, 195, pp. 272 - 291, Link
Zhang Y., Zhu W., Zhang C., Peoples J., Li X., Felicelli A.L., Shan X., Warsinger D.M., Borca-Tasciuc T., Ruan X., Li T. , “Atmospheric Water Harvesting by Large-Scale Radiative Cooling Cellulose-Based Fabric”, (2022) Nano Letters, 22 (7), pp.2618-2626. Link.
In case you have missed...
American Semiconductor Innovation Coalition (ASIC) panel discussion on CHIPS Act and Workforce Development. Robert Hull (Acting Vice President of Research and Director of CMDIS) was also one of the panelists and shared thoughts on creating a robust workforce and how we can contribute. Read more..
CMDIS BYOND Program has accepted its first cohort of undergraduate researchers to Module 1- Lithography. Build Your Own Nano Device program is designed to introduce microfabrication and analysis concepts to interested undergraduate students. The programs kicks off next week. For more information.
CMDIS Facilities Open House and BBQ was on 14 September, thanks for visiting us and hope you enjoyed the wonderful day for BBQ. Link for photos..
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