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Fang Named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering

August 29, 2014

Dr. Jiyu Fang has been named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles in the latest advancement of materials science and chemical engineering. Dr. Fang’s research focuses on the interdisciplinary area of physics, chemistry, materials and biology, with an emphasis on self-organized biological systems and self-assembled nanostructural…

Material Advantage and MRS Clubs Hold Membership Drive

August 28, 2014

The UCF Material Advantage and MRS organizations ran a membership drive at the Engineering Building on August 26. Material Advantage and MRS are two engineering-based clubs at UCF comprised of graduate and undergraduate students from different departments. The members come together to promote the understanding and application of Material Science and Engineering in research, design,…

UCF researchers developing plan to attack citrus greening

August 21, 2014

Keith Landry, MyFoxOrlando These are very challenging times for Florida’s citrus farmers. Experts forecast Florida will have its smallest orange crop this year in forty-nine years. Analysts say the citrus greening disease is destroying our orange groves. University of Central Florida researchers are using nano science, trying to save our oranges. Citrus greening started killing…

Balaeff Paper Highlighted in Science

August 5, 2014

A recent paper by Alexander Balaeff and colleagues is highlighted in the latest issue of Science magazine. The complete article, “Biological charge transfer via flickering resonance,” appears in the August issue of PNAS. Read the Science column as well as the complete PNAS article. Dr. Balaeff is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in…

Doshi Wins Poster Award at ESP2014

June 16, 2014

Mona Doshi won 2nd prize for her poster presentation at ESP2014 in Santa Fe. Mona is a member of Dr. Andre Gesquiere’s research group. Mona’s poster presentation, “Application of Charge Transfer and Triplet Photochemistry in conjugated conducting polymer/fullerene nanoparticles in Curing Cancer,” featured research conducted with Dr. Gesquiere and Dr. Alicja Copik of UCF’s Burnett…

Nanotechnology Research at UCF Could Change How We Send and Store Electricity

June 5, 2014

By Keith Landry ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 ORLANDO) – A simple video shows what could become a huge change in how we send and store electricity through wires. The video illustrates research being done at the University of Central Florida’s NanoScience Technology Center. Professor Jayan Thomas has been working on nanotechnology for seven…

UCF Researcher Seal and Team Win TechConnect National Innovation Award

June 3, 2014

Two University of Central Florida scientists have earned national awards because their inventions are expected to make a difference in fueling future commercial spacecraft and in the efficiency of solar panels needed to convert sunlight into electricity. TechConnect World has selected engineering professors Sudipta Seal and Neelkanth G. Dhere for 2014 TechConnect National Innovation Awards.…

New NanoTech May Provide Power Storage in Cables, Clothes

June 2, 2014

Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 player, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket? Sounds like science fiction, but it may become a reality thanks to breakthrough technology developed at a University of Central Florida research lab. So far electrical cables are used only…

UCF Researchers Among DURIP Award Winners

May 30, 2014

UCF researchers including professors Romain Gaume and Yongho Sohn are working on projects funded by grants from the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program. The University of Central Florida earned five research grants this week worth nearly $2 million from DURIP, placing UCF among the top three university award recipients in the nation. Awards totaling $39.9…

UCF Grads Win Research Excellence Fellowship

May 23, 2014

Graduate students Le Zhou and Shashank Saraf have been awarded UCF’s Graduate Research Excellence Fellowship. The UCF College of Graduate Studies presents the fellowship annually to outstanding graduate students who have excellent research backgrounds and proposals for the thesis or dissertation phase of their graduate degree programs. The fellowship is a supplement to the students’…