April 6, 2015
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…
April 2, 2015
Since it was discovered in South Florida in 2005, the plague of citrus greening has spread to nearly every grove in the state, stoking fears among growers that the $10.7 billion-a-year industry may someday disappear. Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded the University of Florida a $4.6 million grant aimed at testing a…
The Annual Joint Symposium & Exhibition of the Florida Chapter of the AVS Science and Technology Society (FLAVS) and the Florida Society for Microscopy (FSM) was held March 9-10 at UCF. The Symposium consisted of a plenary lecture, technical sessions with invited and contributed presentations, a poster session including a student poster competition and an…
March 27, 2015
Jayan Thomas’s research on supercapacitors is featured in the latest edition of Pegasus magazine. Copper wires power our lives. The simple electricity-transferring cables, used since the 1820s, bring energy into our homes, connect our telecommunications and make our electronic devices work. And now assistant professor Jayan Thomas of the NanoScience Technology Center has found a…
March 25, 2015
Jiyu Fang’s research will be featured in the next edition of Global Medical Discovery. His article, titled “Light-harvesting J-Aggregate Nanotubes for Sensing Dopamine,” will be recognized as a Key Scientific Article contributing to excellence in biomedical research. GMD features papers of exceptional scientific importance and intelligible to a broad scientific audience. Emphasis is given to…
Growingproduce.com – In groves across Florida, citrus growers are collaborating at unprecedented levels, sharing ideas on producing citrus in the face of HLB. In labs and field trials, scientists also are working together with a sense of urgency brought on by the disease as it continues to reduce production. The collaboration among scientists promises to…
March 18, 2015
Yi Ding has been awarded the $500 Austin L. Grogan Memorial Scholarship for the 2015-2016 academic year. The scholarship recognizes graduate students of the Engineering Department with a Materials Science and Engineering major who have demonstrated an excellent academic standing and who have participated in appropriate scholarly activities. Yi Ding is an MSE Ph.D. candidate…
An article authored by Jayan Thomas, Laurene Tetard, Zenan Yu, and Lei Zhai and is featured on the cover of Energy & Environmental Science . The aricle, “Supercapacitor electrode materials: nanostructures from 0 to 3 dimensions” highlights the effect of nanostructures on the properties of supercapacitors including specific capacitance, rate capability and cycle stability, which…
March 17, 2015
Debashis Chanda will lead a 90-minute workshop on “Functional Optical Metamaterials” at CREOL’s Industrial Affiliates Symposium. The workshop will be held Thursday, March 12, 9-10:30 a.m., in the CREOL Building, Room 102. Dr. Chanda leads the Nano-Optics Group at UCF and has a joint appointment in the NanoScience Technology Center and College of Optics &…
March 13, 2015
Masahiro Ishigami has been selected as a UCF Reach for the Stars Award recipient for 2015 and will be honored at the upcoming Founder’s Day celebration on Wednesday, April 1 at 12:00 p.m. This is the second year the Reach for the Stars Awards have been presented. As one of eight recipients, Ishigami will receive…