Dr. Dong Invited to Display Week 2017 Technical Program Committee
January 25, 2017
Dr. Dong has been invited to join Emissive Display (EMD) subcommittee of Display Week 2017 Technical Program Committee.
Dr. Santra’s Group Formula Licensed, First Time for UCF/Agriculture Industry
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…
Graduate student Hao Chen’s Poster Selected as Student Poster Competition Winner
Graduate student Hao Chen’s poster “High Efficacy, High Color Quality Hybrid White OLEDs Incorporating Red Quantum Dots with Narrow Emission Bands” has been selected as a winner of the Student Poster Competition of the 2017 DOE Solid state lighting (SSL) R&D workshop and he was invited to present on this topic at Long Beach, CA.
New, Old Science Combine to Make Faster Medical Test
January 20, 2017
A UCF researcher has combined cutting-edge nanoscience with a magnetic phenomenon discovered more than 170 years ago to create a method for speedy medical tests. The discovery, if commercialized, could lead to faster test results for HIV, Lyme disease, syphilis, rotavirus and other infectious conditions. Putnam’s team coated nanoparticles with the antibody to BSA, or…
Flexible Electronic Solar Ribbon Featured on Foreign Policy Site
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
Dr. Jung’s Research Featured on ACS Nano Cover
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…
Tyler Maxwell Named Outstanding Graduate Student by ACS
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…
Four Dissertation Completion Fellowships Awarded to CECS Students in Spring 2017
December 12, 2016
Jinan Deng, Don Nadun Kuruppumullage, Alireza Hajibagheri, and Ming Miao have been selected for the Dissertation Completion Fellowship, a $10,000 award plus tuition support. These four students were nominated by Dr. Jiyu Fang, Dr. Olusegun J. Ilegbusi, Dr. Gita Sukthankar, and Dr. Juin J. Liou, respectively. Jinan Deng, a student in the Materials Science and…
Dr. Soumen Das and Dr. Sudipta Seal’s Research featured on Chemistry of Materials cover
November 30, 2016
An article in collaboration with Dr. Soumen Das and Dr. Sudipta Seal has been featured on the cover of ACS Chemistry of Materials Journal. The article, titled “Structure–Activity Map of Ceria” deals with heterogeneous reactions, such as automotive catalysis and water gas shift reactions. You can view the cover here and see the full article…
A Phone That Charges in Seconds? UCF Scientists Bring it Closer to Reality
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