August 10, 2017
Turmeric, a staple at juice bars and in the kitchens of cooks who like the root for its color, flavor, and suggested health benefits, is showing more promise than ever. About 700 kids under the age of five are diagnosed with Neuroblastoma in the United States each year. Advanced cases of Neuroblastoma are hard to…
July 28, 2017
Attaching curcumin, a component of the common spice turmeric, to nanoparticles can be used to target and destroy treatment-resistant neuroblastoma tumor cells, according to a new study published in Nanoscale. The study, conducted in partnership by researchers at Nemours Children’s Hospital and the University of Central Florida, demonstrates a potentially novel treatment for neuroblastoma, the…
Congratulations to the three new Trustee Chairs who were honored at the UCF Board of Trustees meeting on July 20, 2017 – Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Sudipta Seal, and Stella Sung. Dr. Abdel-Aty is a Pegasus Professor and chair of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, the deputy director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Systems Simulation, and…
July 25, 2017
An article authored by Dr. Kun Liang, Kyle Marcus, Dr. Yang Yang and others has been published by Advanced Energy Materials . The article, titled “NiS2/FeS Holey Film as Freestanding Electrode for High-Performance Lithium Battery”, highlights a facile and scalable nanomanufacturing technique to produce freestanding holey films as electrodes for lithium battery, which presents superior…
July 14, 2017
Angie Diaz, a student in the Nanotechnology Masters program, has been awarded the 2017 NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium Dissertation/Thesis Improvement Fellowship. The NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC) was formed in 1989, when NASA implemented the national Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. It is a voluntary association of seventeen public and private Florida…
The Convergence 2018 Conference will be held between February 21st through the 23rd, 2018 at the UCF Fairwinds Alumni Center. Convergence 2018 Course Highlights: Calls for groups within the biomedical, life sciences, physical science, engineering and other fields to come together to solve unmet scientific needs Brings together various scientists with the aim of discovery…
July 5, 2017
Supercapacitors: Asymmetric Supercapacitor Electrodes and Devices (Adv. Mater. 21/2017), a paper published by Dr. Yeonwoong Jung and Dr. Jayan Thomas research groups, has been featured as the cover page for the Advanced Materials journal. The paper, which reports on the development of asymmetric supercapacitor (ASC) electrodes and devices, was first published early last month. Congratulations…
June 9, 2017
New American Society for Metals (ASM) International board members were elected at the Executive Board meeting on June 8, 2017. The new officers are: Chair – Chris Hauser, Universal Studios Vice Chair – Peiman Sadrabadi, Siemens Secretary – Aadithya Jeyaranjan, UCF MSE student Treasurer – Tengfei Jiang, UCF AMPAC/MSE Assistant Professor Web Administrator – Steve…
June 7, 2017
One the biggest lithography conference “Electron, Ion, Photon Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN-2017) awarded Dr. Chanda’s “Nano-Space Shuttle” as winner of the nanofabrication micrograph competition. The EIPBN Conference is dedicated to lithographic patterning science, nanomanufacturing process technology, and the applications these methods enable. For 60 years, and 61 meetings the conference has brought together engineers and…
May 26, 2017
Research from Dr. Chanda’s group has been featured in UCF Today. A breakthrough in display technology being developed by Dr. Chanda’s group, including researcher Daniel Franklin, could lead to future displays with 3-4 times the resolution of traditional displays. Assistant Professor Debashis Chanda and physics doctoral student Daniel Franklin have come up with a way…