Matthew Vasuta

DISSERTATION DEFENSE Matthew Vasuta, Interdisciplinary Materials Science *under the supervision of Kane Jennings “Multicomponent Thin Films and Membranes by Combined Spin Coating and Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization” 9.21.26 | 1:00 pm | 209 Furman Hall Thermally driven separations such as distillation necessitate large energy demands, motivating the development of selective… Read More

Simultaneous Spin Coating and Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (scROMP) for the Rapid Synthesis of Semifluorinated Copolymer Films. aNorbornene (NB) is a fully hydrocarbon monomer, while 5-(perfluoro-n-alkyl)norbornenes (NBFn) are partially fluorinated monomers with perfluoro chains attached to norbornenyl rings. Congratulations to Matthew Vasuta in the Jennings lab! Matthew’s paper “Fluorocarbon Minimization Via… Read More

Matthew Vasuta has been selected to receive the 2026 Provost’s Pathbreaking Discovery Award, a premier university honor recognizing doctoral students who demonstrate truly exceptional research and scholarship. Vasuta is a fourth-year PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program and a member of Professor G. Kane… Read More

On Friday, November 8th, VINSE welcomed 9 students from Clarkrange High School to our Forensics Lab. It seems like there was nothing eye-catching at the “crime scene,” but what were the hidden clues? During the forensics lab program, the students solved a whodunnit-themed activity using several types of spectroscopies including… Read More

Three engineering graduate students in the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering/Interdisciplinary Materials Science program are 2024 recipients of the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program supports students who are pursuing full-time, research-based graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering or… Read More

It seems like nothing eye-catching at the “crime scene”, but what are the hidden clues that you should not miss out? On Thursday, April 11, VINSE welcomed 16 students from White House Heritage High School to our Forensics Lab. During the forensics lab program, the students solved a whodunnit-themed activity using several types… Read More

Meet our inaugural group of VINSE NanoGuides! These students will lead many of VINSE’s STEM outreach activities, including the VINSE high school field trip program, which offers hands-on learning designed to inspire K-12 kids to pursue careers in engineering and science. Theodore Anyika, Electrical and Computer Engineering… Read More