Rene Diaz, an Undergraduate Research Assistant working with AMPAC Professor Dr. Sudipta Seal, received 1st place in the Old Guard Technical Poster at the Southeast ASME Student Professional Development Conference (SPDC) held in Tallahassee for a paper entitled “Plasma Sprayed Chromium Carbide Reinforced with Carbon Nanotubes”. In addition, at the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence…

We congratulate Atul Asati (mentor: Dr. Perez), Xiong Liu (mentor: Dr. Huo), and Paul Stokes (mentor: Dr. Khondaker) on this accomplishment. The UCF Research Week is an annual event held to highlight student’s unique contributions to the university’s research mandate. Each annual Research Week has a defining theme and this year’s topic was the Environment:…

Yue Zhao, a Ph.D. student of AMPAC Associate Professor Dr. Jiyu Fang who graduated in Fall 2007 was been named as a recipient of the 2007 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. The award recognizes students across all research-based doctoral degree fields in 31 countries. Awardees are selected on academic merit and research…

Dr. Ming Su has had a paper selected as a cover in the journal Advanced Materials (Volume 20, Number 7) titled “Mass productions of vertically aligned extremely long metallic micro/nanowires using fiber drawing nanomanufacturing.”

The NanoScience Technology Center is proud to announce that three of its faculty members received the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (NSF CAREER) award in 2008. The CAREER recipients are Drs. Saiful Khondaker (joint Physics appointment), Andre Gesquiere (joint Chemistry appointment), and Lei Zhai (joint Chemistry appointment). This is a tremendous accomplishment…

AMPAC Associat Professor Dr. Yongho Sohn and two of his students, Mr. Emmanuel Perez (Doctoral Candidate) and Ms. Ashley Ewh (UG Research assistant), were selected to attend INL Advanced Test Reactor National User Facility Summer Workshop with full financial support from INL. This is a week-long workshop where attendees learn about the test reactor, and…

We are happy to announce that Dr. Michael Leuenberger (joint Physics appointment) has received the prestigious Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). The Young Faculty Award was created to offer a venue by which research ideas proposed by…

Paul Stokes has been selected as one of the 60 participants from the United States to attend the upcoming Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting for Physics in Germany. Paul is a graduate student in the Department of Physics and is a student of Dr. Saiful Khondaker, who has a joint faculty appointment at the NanoScience Technology…

Congratulations to Satyender Goel for receiving the Graduate Student Excellence Award-Chemical Computing Group from the 236th American Chemical Society’s National conference to be held in Philadelphia this August. See www.acscomp.org/Awards/ccg.html for more information.

Congratulations to Dr. J. Manuel Perez (joint Chemistry appointment) who just received word that his National Institute of Health (NIH) R01 project titled An integrated NMR/magnetic nanosensor system for detection of bacteria and toxins will be awarded. This NIH/NIGMS R01 will provide over $800,000 over the four years of this project to address this crucial…