September 15, 2014
Faculty, staff, and students from UCF’s NanoScience Technology Center were in attendance at this year’s UCF Grad Fair to representing the new Professional Science Master’s in Nanotechnology. The PSM in Nanotechnology provides students with scientific education in nanotechnology and professional training in business and technology venture. The program incorporates both the higher level scientific content…
September 9, 2014
Find out how your shirt or jeans pocket could charge your smartphone. Every day, millions of Americans rely on electronic devices that have one thing in common: they must be charged. The process is pretty simple, but it does require a bit of time and forethought. But what if there were a better way to…
September 8, 2014
An engineering professor and an associate vice president at the University of Central Florida have been nominated for Schwartz Tech awards. Sudipta Seal, an engineering professor and nanotechnology and materials expert, is in the running for the Researcher of the Year, and Tom O’Neal, associate vice president for Research and Commercialization, is up for Tech…
September 5, 2014
National Medal of Science recipient Mostafa A. El-Sayed, whose nanotechnology research has led to new ways of treating cancer, will speak at UCF on Friday, Sept. 5, about his current projects. El-Sayed, director of Georgia Tech’s Laser Dynamics Laboratory, will speak at 3 p.m. at CREOL Room 102 about “Nanotechnology Meets Biology in the Cancer…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…