May 6, 2015
UCF faculty member Jayan Thomas, Ph.D. spied some stray cables lying about when he went for a walk one evening to ponder the subject of energy storage. With a “charge” of inspiration, a novel thought occurred to him: Cables transmit energy, so why couldn’t they also store it? That insight has led to research that…
May 4, 2015
Undergraduate student Julian Moore is a winner of the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Scholarship for 2015-2016. Moore was awarded $2,500 for academic excellence in the field of Aerospace Engineering. Moore is a member of Dr. Jayan Thomas’s Nano Energy-Photonics Group. He previously won the Northrop Grumman Scholarship. The Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Scholarship supports sophomore…
April 23, 2015
Swadeshmukul Santra’s research into citrus greening is featured in a new article from The Huffington Post. The race is on to find an effective treatment for citrus greening, a ruinous disease that has decimated citrus industries across the world and brought global orange production to the lowest levels seen in generations. The U.S. Department of…
April 20, 2015
Swadeshmukul “Swadesh” Santra, Associate Professor in UCF’s Nanoscience Technology Center, Department of Chemistry, and Biomolecular Science Center, is featured in an article from the Orlando Sentinel. Santra was at a conference on citrus greening when an idea came to him that could save the state’s ailing citrus industry. That light-bulb moment helped Santra, who works…
April 15, 2015
Congratulations to Jayan Thomas for his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure. He holds a joint-appointment with CREOL and MSE. Thomas’ research interests revolve around developing nanoarchitectured energy conversion and storage devices, developing photorefractive polymers with improved sensitivity and studying the optical limiting properties of core-shell plasmonic nanostructures. He also heads the UCF Nano Energy-Photonics…
Corey Rodas, AMPAC, NSTC and MSE undergraduate student received an honorable mention at the 2015 Showcase of Undergraduate Research in the Life Sciences category for his poster Silk Fibroin Electrospun Nanostructures For Biomedical Applications. Sudipta Seal the MSE Interim Chair and Director of AMPAC and NSTC was Corey Rodas’ mentor for his research. The Showcase…
Saiful Khondaker is a winner of UCF’s 2014-2015 Research Incentive Awards. The UCF RIA program honors faculty whose research has substantially contributed to a body of knowledge or significantly influenced a field of study. Khondaker is an Associate Professor with joint appointments in the NanoScience Technology Center and Physics departments. His research focuses on the…
April 8, 2015
Four NSTC Students were recognized at the 2015 Graduate Research Forum with Poster Awards in the following categories: Engineering, Computer Science, and Modeling and Simulation First Place – Zenan Yu, Material Science and Engineering PhD Energy Storing Electrical Cables Mentor/Co-Author: Jayan Thomas, PhD Second Place – Yi Ding, Materials Science and Engineering PhD Light-Matter Interaction…
April 6, 2015
Debashis Chanda has been selected to serve as an executive committee member in The Optical Society’s Optical Fabrication and Testing Technical Group. The group covers all aspects of optics fabrication and testing ranging from micro-optics to large optics; and from high-value one-of-a-kind optics to mass-produced optics. Dr. Chanda was selected by Dr. Rajesh Menon, Associate…
A test that costs less than a $1 and yields results in minutes has been shown in newly published studies to be more sensitive and more exact than the current standard test for early-stage prostate cancer. The simple test developed by University of Central Florida scientist Qun “Treen” Huo holds the promise of earlier detection…