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Dec 2, 2019

AIF Undergraduate Staff Microscopist Chosen as the Fall 2019 Student Commencement Speaker

Abby Carbone has been named the 2019 Student Commencement Speaker. She’s graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering and a minor in Nanotechnology. Abby has been…

Nov 22, 2019

2019 CSS Success

This year’s Carolina Science Symposium had the highest attendance to date! With 127 participants, 15 vendors, and a lot of planning, we had a very successful event that was full…

Nov 22, 2019

Cool Science: Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

“In summary, evidence has been found in the Pilauco section that is similar to that found at >50 YDB sites on four continents. This is the first time that extensive…

Nov 21, 2019

Meet Laura Dalton

Tell me a little about yourself! I just started my second year as a PhD student in the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department working under Dr. Mohammad Pour-Ghaz. After…

Nov 21, 2019

First Bio-Imaging User Meeting: Success

We had our first Bio-Imaging user group meeting during the last week of October, where researchers from various backgrounds (Figure 1) gathered to learn more about AIF’s Bio-Imaging capabilities and…

Nov 21, 2019

7th Annual AIF Best Paper Award Winners

Please join us in congratulating the 2019 winners!  The AIF holds a contest each year for the best papers written by students. This year, we selected the award recipients from…

Oct 16, 2019

2019 AIF Best Paper Award

We are pleased to announce the competition for the seventh annual Best Paper Award for work performed, in part, at the Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF), NC State’s primary shared facility…

Oct 16, 2019

Cool Science: Plant Health

“The main innovation of this work lies in two areas: first, we use plasmonic nanostructures as a new class of sensing elements to greatly expand the library of targets that…

Oct 16, 2019

Meet Austin McCandless

Tell me a little about yourself! My name is Austin McCandless. I just completed my third semester in Dr. Huang’s research group. I am in the MAE department. In my free…

Sep 19, 2019

Cool Science: Solar Cell Operation

  “The stability of organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells is limited by degradation from oxygen and water. Yang et al. show that in situ reaction of perovskites with sulfate or phosphate…