Materials research is of national interest because it promises to address many challenges from quantum communications to energy generation. The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Central Florida an $800,000 grant to help build a partnership with the University of Washington that will accelerate research in the areas of Ultrafast Dynamics and…

The material offers the high performance and stability needed for industrial-scale electrolysis, which could produce a clean energy fuel from seawater. Hydrogen fuel derived from the sea could be an abundant and sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, but the potential power source has been limited by technical challenges, including how to practically harvest it. Researchers…

One of the main missions of Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) is to facilitate access to the world’s major space conferences for young professionals and students. The Space Generation Leadership Award enables five outstanding SGAC members to attend the 19th Space Generation Congress and the 72nd International Astronautical Congress in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. SGAC…

In late December 2020, Darin Edwards ’97 ’10MS ’11PhD was in the middle of another marathon work day from his home office in Boston when he received a text message from his sister in Orlando. He gazed at the photos on his screen of his 80-year-old parents, whom he had not seen in a year,…

The goal is to gain a deeper understanding of zoonotic threats, which may include COVID-19, in order to better respond to them. Two University of Central Florida College of Sciences researchers have been selected by a national philanthropic foundation as research fellows to help fight the threat of animal-borne diseases. Laurene Tetard, an associate professor…

A paper presented by Ms. Julia Freitas Orrico, a M.S. Nanotechnology student who is also the first author of this paper just won the BEST POSTER award at the recently concluded virtual meeting, IEEE Transducers 2021 (https://transducers2021.org). This paper, a collaborative effort amongst the groups of NSTC Professor, Dr. Swaminathan Rajaraman and Dr. Michael J.…

Steady progress comes from increase in research activity in health, engineering and more. UCF ranked 25th among public universities in the nation for producing patents and 60th in the world, according to a new report released today. The National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association ranks institutions every year based on the…

University of Central Florida and South Ural State University researchers led by Professors Artem Masunov and Ekaterina Bartashevich developed a novel methodology for computational predictions of the mechanical properties for single crystals. Many organic compounds form two or more solid phases that differ only in the packing of molecules in the unit cell. These phases…

Pavlo Kravchuk won an award for his poster titled “Small organic osmolytes accelerate actin assembly.” at the 2021 UCF Student Scholar Symposium in the Life Sciences category. This year the Student Scholar Symposium took place virtually. As a graduate winner, he will be also provided with a $500 scholarship. Pavlo is a Nanotechnology Masters student…

The material’s nanostructure design is based on how honeybees and other pollinators can manipulate pollen using microstructures and electric fields. NASA has selected a University of Central Florida nanotechnology team as one of seven university groups from around the country tasked with developing ways to stop the negative effects of moon dust during lunar missions.…