Saiful Khondaker is a winner of UCF’s 2014-2015 Research Incentive Awards. The UCF RIA program honors faculty whose research has substantially contributed to a body of knowledge or significantly influenced a field of study. Khondaker is an Associate Professor with joint appointments in the NanoScience Technology Center and Physics departments. His research focuses on the…

Congratulations to Jayan Thomas for his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure. He holds a joint-appointment with CREOL and MSE. Thomas’ research interests revolve around developing nanoarchitectured energy conversion and storage devices, developing photorefractive polymers with improved sensitivity and studying the optical limiting properties of core-shell plasmonic nanostructures. He also heads the UCF Nano Energy-Photonics…

Four NSTC Students were recognized at the 2015 Graduate Research Forum with Poster Awards in the following categories: Engineering, Computer Science, and Modeling and Simulation First Place – Zenan Yu, Material Science and Engineering PhD Energy Storing Electrical Cables Mentor/Co-Author: Jayan Thomas, PhD Second Place – Yi Ding, Materials Science and Engineering PhD Light-Matter Interaction…

Debashis Chanda has been selected to serve as an executive committee member in The Optical Society’s Optical Fabrication and Testing Technical Group. The group covers all aspects of optics fabrication and testing ranging from micro-optics to large optics; and from high-value one-of-a-kind optics to mass-produced optics. Dr. Chanda was selected by Dr. Rajesh Menon, Associate…

A test that costs less than a $1 and yields results in minutes has been shown in newly published studies to be more sensitive and more exact than the current standard test for early-stage prostate cancer. The simple test developed by University of Central Florida scientist Qun “Treen” Huo holds the promise of earlier detection…

The Annual Joint Symposium & Exhibition of the Florida Chapter of the AVS Science and Technology Society (FLAVS) and the Florida Society for Microscopy (FSM) was held March 9-10 at UCF. The Symposium consisted of a plenary lecture, technical sessions with invited and contributed presentations, a poster session including a student poster competition and an…

Since it was discovered in South Florida in 2005, the plague of citrus greening has spread to nearly every grove in the state, stoking fears among growers that the $10.7 billion-a-year industry may someday disappear. Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded the University of Florida a $4.6 million grant aimed at testing a…

Jayan Thomas’s research on supercapacitors is featured in the latest edition of Pegasus magazine. Copper wires power our lives. The simple electricity-transferring cables, used since the 1820s, bring energy into our homes, connect our telecommunications and make our electronic devices work. And now assistant professor Jayan Thomas of the NanoScience Technology Center has found a…

Growingproduce.com – In groves across Florida, citrus growers are collaborating at unprecedented levels, sharing ideas on producing citrus in the face of HLB. In labs and field trials, scientists also are working together with a sense of urgency brought on by the disease as it continues to reduce production. The collaboration among scientists promises to…

Yi Ding has been awarded the $500 Austin L. Grogan Memorial Scholarship for the 2015-2016 academic year. The scholarship recognizes graduate students of the Engineering Department with a Materials Science and Engineering major who have demonstrated an excellent academic standing and who have participated in appropriate scholarly activities. Yi Ding is an MSE Ph.D. candidate…