December 17, 2018
What is real is not always as it appears. UCF researchers have found a way to hide information on materials and only make it visible to a person using the right tech. “We found we can create a surface where we preferentially control absorption of light,” says Debashis Chanda, an associate professor of physics, optics…
October 14, 2018
Families, friends and colleagues celebrated 11 University of Central Florida faculty members Wednesday during the second annual Luminary Awards Night. The event, cosponsored by the Office of Research and Faculty Excellence, recognizes faculty members across all disciplines for being academic leaders in their field and conducting work that has a significant impact on the world.…
June 13, 2018
A University of Central Florida team has designed a nanostructured optical sensor that for the first time can efficiently detect molecular chirality – a property of molecular spatial twist that defines its biochemical properties. Determining chirality is critical for new drug development. Think of molecules as having little hands. They are not identical, but they…
April 6, 2018
Graduate student Juan (Rachel) He won the 2018 Student Poster Competition at the 15th annual DOE SSL R&D Workshop, held January 29-31 in Nashville, Tennessee. The heart of these workshops is a poster session, where project investigators from all DOE-funded R&D projects share updates on their work.Now in its third year, the student poster competition…
February 2, 2018
Laboni Santra, an Oviedo High School student working with Professor Rajaraman won multiple awards at the Seminole County Science, Math and Engineering Fair held on February 3, 2018. Laboni’s project entitled “Microneedle Assisted Delivery of Model Therapeutic in Plant Tissue” won the first prize in the Plant Sciences category of the fair and was recognized…
February 1, 2018
Daniel Franklin has been selected for induction into the Order of Pegasus, Class of 2018. He was recognized at the Order of Pegasus award ceremony on April 2, 2018. The Order of Pegasus is the University of Central Florida’s most prestigious student award. Student recipients are recognized for their academic success, university involvement, leadership qualities…
January 30, 2018
A finding that enables graphene to better absorb light could be the key manufacturers have been waiting for to utilize the super-strong, superlight material in next-generation devices including light detectors, touchscreens, glucose testing meters and even water filtration systems. For the first time, the UCF team demonstrated more than 45 percent absorption of light in…
January 1, 2018
Prof. Yajie Dong was invited to present at the 24th International Display Workshops (IDW’17) at Sendai, Japan and his presentation titled “Luminescent Perovskite-Polymer Composite Films for Display” was selected to win the IDW ’17 Best Paper Award. The IDW is known for encouraging aggressive research and development of display technologies throughout the world and especially…
December 17, 2017
NSTC students Mikhael Soliman and Abraham Vázquez-Guardado were each awarded the UCF Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship for spring 2018. The fellowship includes a stipend of $10,000, tuition coverage, and paid individual health insurance. The fellowship was awarded to 13 students university-wide. Mikhael is a Ph.D. student in Dr. Laurene Tetard’s group. He is also…
November 30, 2017
A new diagnostic test that can detect a Zika viral infection within 30 minutes could be headed to hospitals in the next year thanks to a partnership between the University of Central Florida and Orlando-based biotechnology startup Nano Discovery Inc. Qun Treen Huo, a faculty member at UCF’s Department of Chemistry and NanoScience Technology Center,…