Thomas’ research on supercapacitors has won a 2015 R&D 100 award. The R&D 100 Awards have a 50+ year history of recognizing excellence in innovation, earning the name the “Oscars of Invention.” The award provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and consumers that tells potential customers that the product has successfully competed…

Debashis Chanda and Daniel Franklin’s work on bendable, wearable, displays was covered in a recent video on Channel 9. The news anchor describes how the bendable displays works, “electric current stimulates the metal on a microscopic scale and that can change how it reflects color.” Chanda goes on to envision the wearable display taking a…

Kripa Ahuja won second place for a poster presentation in the recently held Florida American Society of Microbiology meeting. Even as a high school student, she competed in the undergraduate category and was awarded the second place prize. Ahuja is currently a high school senior at Trinity Preparatory School, Lake Mary, Florida. She has been…

Swadeshmukul Santra’s bactericide invention, Zinkicide, has been recently featured by ABC WFTV Channel 9 on a segment about the Florida citrus industry continuing to fight for funding for research and testing to battle citrus greening. You can watch the video on WFTV.

Preeti Kumrah has been awarded the Distinguished Undergraduate Researcher Award for the month of October 2015 at the University of Central Florida. Kumrah was chosen by the Student Undergraduate Research Council based on the overall merit of the research she is currently conducting as an undergraduate student and her accomplishments to date with this work.…

The impressive presentations by graduate students at the first Professional Science Masters Day were highlighted in a recent article by UCFToday. PSM Nanotechnology students, Jennifer Parra and Robert Williamson, presented deliverables from their internships and discussed the benefits they were provided as part of a Professional Science Masters degree program. Parra interned at L’OREAL USA…

Yeonwoong (Eric) Jung’s co-first authored paper, Nanoscale Size Effects in Crystallization of Metallic Glass Nanorods, has been published in the latest edition of Nature Communications. The paper focuses on in-situ TEM of metallic glass nanorods, revealing abnormal size-dependent crystallization in this system for the first time. The findings provide insight into relevant length scales in…

Laurene Tetard and her research team have developed a new method for identifying materials’ unique chemical vibrations and mapping their chemical properties at a much higher spatial resolution than ever before. The new approach is able to identify materials based on differences in the vibration produced when they’re subjected to different wavelengths of light. Results…

Orlando Sentinel — UCF assistant professor Debashis Chanda has always been intrigued by nature and its colors. Now he’s hoping to use that interest to create a material that can help soldiers camouflage themselves or make rubber mannequins at medical schools look more realistic with wounds and bruises. “I love light,” said Debashis, who prefers…

Research by Debashis Chanda and his Nano-Optics Group has been featured in a variety of high-profile news outlets including BBC News, Popular Science, Wired, The Financial Express, and Phys.org. The work, originally published as a cover story by Nature Communications, presents the first demonstration of full-color, plasmonic metasurface displays. The technology has future implications for…