We are proud to announce that Kenneth Christopher Stiwinter, a graduate student in the Zhao Nano Lab, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Georgia, has been awarded the Best Poster Award at the 5th International Online Conference on Nanomaterials (IOCN 2025), organized by MDPI. Ken’s award-winning poster, “The Optical and Near-Field Properties of Plasmonic Janus Nanoparticles: An FDTD Study,”  presents a detailed computational investigation of Au–SiO₂ Janus nanoparticles, whose...

SpectraGuru™  is a free, open-source ecosystem for Raman and SERS data analysis and visualization — built to make spectroscopy faster, reproducible, and community-driven. 🚀 Version 1.2 brings major advances  toward a fully connected spectroscopy ecosystem: 🔹 1. Unified, Community-Driven Database PostgreSQL-based centralized backend Standardized schema for raw and processed spectra Over 3,000 spectra  spanning chemicals, viruses, biomarkers, and more — all annotated with detailed...

The University of Georgia is embracing the creative intersection of artificial intelligence and education. In a recent article by The Red...