October 5, 2015
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.…
September 23, 2015
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…
September 16, 2015
Ankur Gupta has been awarded the $300 Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Travel Grant to present his research at the 62nd Annual American Vacuum Society International Symposium and Exhibition in San Jose, CA, October 18-23. Gupta’s research, Gradient Electrochemical Response of Template Synthesized Thickness Sorted MoS2 Nanosheets for Cellular Level Free Radical Detection, will…
September 2, 2015
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…
August 20, 2015
Swetha Barkam is a recipient of the 2015-2016 Alumni Fellows Graduate Scholarship in the amount of $1500. Barkam is a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and a member of Dr. Sudipta Seal’s research group. Applicants were evaluated on GPA, well-rounded involvement at UCF, involvement in the local community, and exceptional…
August 11, 2015
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…
July 21, 2015
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…
June 25, 2015
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…
June 24, 2015
New research by Jiyu Fang graces the cover of the August issue of the Journal of Materials Science. The journal article features his group’s research on the synthesis of ultralight, superhydrophobic and superoleophilic “sponge-like” aerogels. Dr. Fang is an associate professor in the University of Central Florida’s Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center as well…
June 19, 2015
Imagine a soldier who can change the color and pattern of his camouflage uniform from woodland green to desert tan at will. Or an office worker who could do the same with his necktie. Is someone at the wedding reception wearing the same dress as you? No problem – switch yours to a different color…