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Reinvent the Toilet Challenge Video Update

The Reinvent the Toilet Challenge team recently celebrated the success of their working conveyer-style, solid, puck dryer as part of the most recent prototype. Check out this video to see it in action.

NTFL Attends ASMS 2018 Conference

Research Scientist Matt Kirley attended the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference in San Diego, CA. The four day conference featured short courses on various mass spectrometry topics, multiple keynotes highlighting the numerous applications...

NTFL Attends ASITA 2018 Conference

Earlier this week, Research Professor Jason Amsden attended the Advances in Stable Isotope Technology and Applications Conference at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The three day conference included tutorials about the history of stable...

NTFL Welcomes Summer Interns

NTFL would like to give a warm welcome to our summer interns. Abhyudaya Adulkar is a rising senior majoring in Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Abhyudaya is participating in the Duke ECE Summer REU program working on the Odor...

NTFL Attends DRTA/AFOSR Annual Review Meeting

On May 31, Jason Amsden attended the 2018 DTRA/AFOSR Radiation Damage Effects in Electronics and MEMS annual review meeting at the Basic Research Innovation and Collaboration Center (BRICC) in Arlington, Virginia and presented our DTRA funded work on...

NTFL Attends New Diamond and Nano Carbons Conference

Ph.D. candidate Tasso von Windheim attended the New Diamond and Nano Carbons Conference in Flagstaff, Arizona and presented a poster  entitled The Effects of Gamma Radiation on Carbon Nanotube Structure and Field Emission Performance. The conference...

Mariana Vasquez-Sanchez and James Thostenson presented at the 233rd Conference of the Electrochemical Society

Mariana Vasquez-Sanchez and James Thostenson presented at the 233rd Conference of the Electrochemical Society held May 13-18, 2018 in Seattle, WA. Mariana, a first year student, gave an oral presentation on her work regarding electrochemical odor...

Congratulations to Undergraduate Researcher Alec Ajnsztajn

This past weekend undergraduate researcher Alec Ajnsztajn graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor's of Science in Engineering. While at Duke, Alec majored in Mechanical Engineering and spent over two years working in the nanomaterials and thin...

Kat Horvath Presents at Triangle Area Mass Spectrometry Meeting

Graduate student Kat Horvath was invited to present at the Triangle Area Mass Spectrometry (TAMS) discussion group about her work on "Eliminating the throughput vs resolution tradeoff in sector mass spectrometer miniaturization." She highlighted the...

NTFL Awarded Seed Funding for two Proposals

Duke University's Energy Initiative has selected two NTFL proposals for funding under their Energy research Seed Fund (ERSF). The proposals entitled "Investigating the stability of promising earth abundant-based photoelectrochemical energy materials" and...

Yihao Zhou Presents (and wins prize) at Duke Energy Initiative Workshop

Ph.D. student Yihao Zhou participated in the interdisciplinary research workshop "Envisioning Energy Solutions" hosted by Duke University's Energy Initiative. Yihao won second place in the student presentation portion of the program where he presented on...

NFTL Faculty Presented CAMMS Research at Pittcon 2018

Jason Amsden, Assistant Research Professor, gave an invited talk about our CAMMS work in one of the premier conference sessions on miniature mass spectrometry run by Professor Graham Cooks at Pittcon 2018. A standing room only crowd came for the...

NTFL Publishes Two Articles in JASMS

NTFL publishes two articles in the February 2018 issue of the Journal of The American Society of Mass Spectrometry. This special issue focuses on Novel Instrumentation in Mass Spectrometry and Ion Mobility Spectrometry. Articles can be found here.

NTFL Faculty Talks to Expo Insider Magazine

Assistant Researcher Professor, Jason J Amsden Ph.D., was quoted in the article “Mass Spectrometry on the Move” is the newest issue of Expo Insider Magazine. This issue of the magazine is a preview of the PITTCON conference taking place next week in...

NTFL Competes in Carolina Science Symposium

Students Kat Horvath, Tasso von Windheim, and Raul Vyas presented posters at the Carolina Science Symposium at NCSU (November 2017). Tasso von Windheim brought home first place in the photo competition as well as third place in the poster competition...