January 25, 2017
A paper from the groups of Dr. Yajie Dong, Dr. Shin-Tson Wu and Dr. Andre J. Gesquiere, titled “Ultrastable, Highly Luminescent Organic-Inorganic Perovskite – Polymer Composite Films”, has been published by Advanced Materials.
January 25, 2017
Dr. Dong has been invited to join Emissive Display (EMD) subcommittee of Display Week 2017 Technical Program Committee.
January 25, 2017
Beatriz Jimenez, an EE undergraduate student from Dr. Chanda’s group working on IR spectroscopy was selected for the SURF Program, a summer research scholarship The SURF program entails an 8 – 10 week Summer Undergraduate Researchexperience at the University of Florida. Prospective Ph.D. students for the University of Florida for the fall 2018 termwill be…
January 25, 2017
Gowan Co. has licensed an anti-fungal and anti-bacterial formula developed by Dr. Santra’s lab, the first agreement of its kind for UCF. The College of Science News highlighted the achievment, summarized below: Gowan Co. recently signed an agreement with the University of Central Floridato obtain exclusive rights to the anti-fungal and anti-bacterial formulationdeveloped by researcher…
January 19, 2017
The ENERGY SMART textile is highlighted among the “innovations” in the current issue of prestigious “Foreign Policy” magazine (owned by Washington Post company). The ENERGY SMART textile is being developed by Dr. Thomas’ research group Read the full article here Or here
January 9, 2017
Dr. Eric Jung’s work has been featured on the cover of ACS Nano. The cover article features additional coverage of Dr. Jung’s Core/Shell Nanowire Supercapacitor research. More specifically, the article details a new type of “one-body” supercapacitors has been developed by chemically converting flexible tungsten foils to one-dimensional (1D) nanowires with conformal two-dimensional (2D) tungsten…
December 21, 2016
Tyler Maxwell, a Ph.D. student in Associate Professor Swadeshmukul Santra’s lab in the Chemsitry Department at UCF, has been named Outstanding Graduate Student by the Orlando section of the American Chemical Society (ACS).Maxwell was nominated by Associate Professor and collaborator Andre Gesquiere for his educational outreach and in applying discoveries in the lab to start…
November 30, 2016
UCF Today has highlighted a team of UCF scientists that has developed a new process for creating flexible supercapacitors that can store more energy and be recharged more than 30,000 times without degrading. This was also covered on additional news outlets, including Science Daily, KSL, World Industrial Reporter and Red Orbit
November 17, 2016
Dr. Debashis Chanda and Mr. Daniel Franklin will be recognized at the Board of Trustees Meeting on November 17, for winning the International Prize for Novel Display Technology. President Hitt will recognize both to the Board of Trustees at this meeting. Congratulations to both Dr. Chanda and Mr. Franklin for their achievements.
November 17, 2016
Dr. Jayan Thomas has been recognized for his work on solar nanotech powered clothing. Dr. Thomas says that ‘Back to the Future’ was the inspiration for the solar powered, self charging textiles. Read the full article here