News

Media attention for our research from UCF

2018 Invention of 2D materials for oil-water separation

• UCF News: UCF Students to Exhibit Oil-Cleanup Invention at D.C. Expo
• Spectrum News 13: UCF students work to develop sponge to clean oil spills
• Central Florida Lifestyle: UCF STEM Students Granted a Full-Ride to Science and Engineering Festival
• The University Network: Oil Spills? Sustainable High-Tech Sponge Could be The Answer
• WFTV: UCF students create sponge to observe oil in the ocean

2016 ACS Nano: Core/shell nanowire supercapacitor

• Huffington Post: Scientists Are Developing A Battery That Charges In Seconds And Lasts For A Week
• The telegraph: Battery breakthrough will let phones charge in seconds and last for a week
• Daily Mail: The flexible superbattery that could keep your phone charged for a WEEK - and top it up in seconds
• Inquirer: New battery prototype charges in seconds, lasts for days
• Yahoo News: New ‘battery’ technology could mean phones last a week - and charge in seconds
• Nature World News: These New Supercapacitors Could Charge Mobile Phones in Seconds
• New Atlas: Flexible supercapacitor process brings phones that charge in seconds a step closer
• EE Times: Nanomaterials create flexible supercapacitors
• Indian TIMES: Phone that charges in seconds?
• Engadget: New battery tech lasts for days, charges in seconds
• News 18: Technology Breakthrough: Batteries to Charge in Seconds, Last for Days?
• Phys.Org: A phone that charges in seconds? Scientists bring it closer to reality

The invention has also been highlighted in various TV news shows, including FOX 35 (Orlando), KOFY (San Francisco), and KDVR (Denver).

Student Awards

Emmanuel Okogbue​

• Selected to be a student speaker for North American Materials Science Colloquium series​
• 1st prize winner at 2019 NanoFlorida conference ​
• 1st prize place for the presentation competition at UCF nanotechnology ​
• 1st prize winner in 2019 UCF Graduate Research Forum presentation completion – selected as one of the only two students to participate in the state-wide completion representing UCF​
• 1st prize winner in 2019 Conference of Florida Graduate Schools ​
• NSTC travel grant for attendance to Fall MRS conferences in 2018 and 2019​
• UCF Graduate Presentation Fellowship – for his attendance to annual NSBE conference in 2019​

​ Mashiyat Shawakat ​

• UCF Doctoral Research Support award from the College of Graduate Studies​
• NSTC travel grant for attendance to Fall MRS conference in 2019​

​ Md Islam Ashraful ​

• UCF Doctoral Research Support award from the College of Graduate Studies​
• UCF Graduate Presentation Fellowship – for his attendance to Fall MRS conference in 2018​

​ Tae-Jun Ko ​

• Best poster presentation award - US-Korea Conference (UKC), Aug 15, Chicago, IL 2019​

​ Luis Hutardo ​

• MIT Convergence program​
• MIT summer research program (MSRP)- full financial support by MIT for 2018 summer​
• NACME Undergraduate Research Fellow ​
• E3S REU program –summery research at UC Berkeley in 2019 under full financial support​
• GEM fellowship – full tuition/stipend support for the entire PhD study period​

​ Dwight David ​

• EPA P-3 student competition team winner –research demonstration at Washington DC, 2018 ​
• NSF I-corps – a team member for the student-leading project on 2D materials-based oil sorbents​