Barb Cramer

Vanderbilt researchers have developed a technique for gold to actually 'shine' inside 3-D printed parts to highlight any problems. "This is one of the first applications using gold for defect detection. We are able to inspect and detect defects that aren't visible to the naked eye, using the optical properties of embedded gold nanoparticles," said Cole Brubaker, civil engineering graduate student, and lead author of the study. "That's a very critical step – being able to say 'We have a defect.

That glint of gold has always captured our eyes, but now the precious metal has a new use – finding defects in 3D printing. Vanderbilt researchers have developed a technique for gold to actually ‘shine’ inside 3D printed parts to highlight any problems. “This is one of the first applications using gold for defect detection.

A busy hospital emergency room—filled with life and pain and death—is not where you’d expect to find a Vanderbilt undergrad taking a class. But that is where you find Kate Sborov. A medicine, health and society major in the College of Arts and Science, Sborov was part of the first Vanderbilt immersion class offered in emergency medicine. She and her classmates worked alongside emergency medicine research team members in Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s emergency department.