A team of UCF researchers just landed a $1.3 million National Institute of Health grant to crack a problem cancer-patients worry about and that specialist struggle with almost daily. They are developing a promising technique to deliver a cancer-fighting drug to cancer cells that escape tumors and move through the body to spread cancer. These…

Dr. Parthiban Rajasekaran took First Prize among oral presentations at NanoFlorida™ 2014. His presentation was titled “Chitosan-metal composites as a potential prophylactic antimicrobial feed additive for combating antimicrobial resistance.” NanoFlorida™ 2014 was the 7th annual symposium, held at the University of Miami. Rajasekaran is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Dr. Swadeshmukul Santra’s research group. His…

Faculty, staff, and students from UCF’s NanoScience Technology Center were in attendance at this year’s UCF Grad Fair to representing the new Professional Science Master’s in Nanotechnology. The PSM in Nanotechnology provides students with scientific education in nanotechnology and professional training in business and technology venture. The program incorporates both the higher level scientific content…

Find out how your shirt or jeans pocket could charge your smartphone. Every day, millions of Americans rely on electronic devices that have one thing in common: they must be charged. The process is pretty simple, but it does require a bit of time and forethought. But what if there were a better way to…

Keith Landry, MyFoxOrlando These are very challenging times for Florida’s citrus farmers. Experts forecast Florida will have its smallest orange crop this year in forty-nine years. Analysts say the citrus greening disease is destroying our orange groves. University of Central Florida researchers are using nano science, trying to save our oranges. Citrus greening started killing…

A recent paper by Alexander Balaeff and colleagues is highlighted in the latest issue of Science magazine. The complete article, “Biological charge transfer via flickering resonance,” appears in the August issue of PNAS. Read the Science column as well as the complete PNAS article. Dr. Balaeff is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in…

Mona Doshi won 2nd prize for her poster presentation at ESP2014 in Santa Fe. Mona is a member of Dr. Andre Gesquiere’s research group. Mona’s poster presentation, “Application of Charge Transfer and Triplet Photochemistry in conjugated conducting polymer/fullerene nanoparticles in Curing Cancer,” featured research conducted with Dr. Gesquiere and Dr. Alicja Copik of UCF’s Burnett…

By Keith Landry ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 ORLANDO) – A simple video shows what could become a huge change in how we send and store electricity through wires.  The video illustrates research being done at the University of Central Florida’s NanoScience Technology Center. Professor Jayan Thomas has been working on nanotechnology for seven…

Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 player, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket? Sounds like science fiction, but it may become a reality thanks to breakthrough technology developed at a University of Central Florida research lab. So far electrical cables are used only…

Andre J. Gesquiere is a winner of UCF’s 2014 Research Incentive Awards. The RIA program rewards outstanding achievements in research, scholarly and creative activities. Gesquiere is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the NanoScience Technology Center and Department of Chemistry. His research focus includes imaging and spectroscopy of nanoscale materials and biological systems.