May 19, 2014
UCF students won two poster awards at the 225th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Orlando. The competition was highly competitive, and, after several rounds of judging, only 4 awards were presented among 84 posters from presenters around the country and abroad. The following UCF students and faculty were honored: 1st Place, Solid State “Room temperature hydrogen…
April 30, 2014
Ph.D. candidate Swetha Barkam is a winner of the 2013-2014 SGA Campus Student Involvement Scholarship. The $250 award is presented to outstanding students who demonstrate exceptional involvement in the UCF community. Swetha is a member of Dr. Sudipta Seal’s research group. Her research focus includes interaction and application of nanoparticles in biology. Swetha previously won…
April 11, 2014
Andre J. Gesquiere is a winner of UCF’s 2014 Research Incentive Awards. The RIA program rewards outstanding achievements in research, scholarly and creative activities. Gesquiere is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the NanoScience Technology Center and Department of Chemistry. His research focus includes imaging and spectroscopy of nanoscale materials and biological systems.
April 1, 2014
People have dreamed about the possibility of invisibility for centuries. It’s the subject of countless books and Hollywood movies, but is the real thing really possible? Researchers at the University of Central Florida may be on the cusp of creating a type of invisibility. FOX 35’s Tom Johnson takes you inside Dr. Debashis Chanda’s Nano-Optics…
March 31, 2014
Controlling and bending light around an object so it appears invisible to the naked eye is the theory behind fictional invisibility cloaks. It may seem easy in Hollywood movies, but is hard to create in real life because no material in nature has the properties necessary to bend light in such a way. Scientists have…
The new nanotechnology master’s degree offered by the University of Central Florida will have a “huge economic impact” on Central Florida, said Sudipta Seal, the director of the Nanoscience Technology Center and the Advanced Materials Processing & Analysis Center at UCF. UCF’s board of trustees on March 27 approved a new nanocscience technology master’s degree…
March 28, 2014
by Abraham AborayaOrlando Business Journal The University of Central Florida today approved a new master’s degree that may provide an economic boost to the region’s high-tech industry. The educational programs committee for the UCF board of trustees signed off on a new master’s in nanoscience technology. The degree will help students and potential entrepreneurs get…
The UCF Board of Trustees Thursday approved a new interdisciplinary professional science master’s degree program that will expand UCF’s offerings in the rapidly growing field of nanotechnology. Nanoscience and nanotechnology are the study of extremely small things — detectable only with very strong microscopes — and how they can be used in a variety of…
March 26, 2014
An article co-authored by Debashis Chanda is one of this month’s cover features for Advanced Optical Materials. This is the first demonstration of large area 3D “visible” negative index metamaterials -> will play important role in the development of “invisibility” cloaks. J. A. Rogers, D. Chanda, and co-workers demonstrate a nanotransfer printing technique to fabricate…
March 18, 2014
Undergraduate Julian Moore has been awarded the Northrop Grumman Scholarship for the 2014-15 academic year. The award is worth $5,000. The scholarship is open to outstanding students majoring in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Julian is a member of Dr. Jayan Thomas’s Nano Energy-Photonics research group. Northrop Grumman is…