Recipients of the 2024-25 Seed Funding Program Announced The program awarded a total of $500,000 to 21 new projects. This is the fourth year the program has been available to UCF faculty and researchers.
Researcher Continues Developing Promising Nanoparticles for Medical Applications Pegasus Professor Sudipta Seal is tailoring his versatile cerium oxide nanoparticles for a variety of medical applications such as injury recovery and prevention and cancer medicine delivery.
UCF Researcher Discovers New Technique for Infrared “Color” Detection and Imaging The new specialized tunable detection and imaging technique for infrared photons surpasses present technology and may be a cost-effective method of capturing thermal imaging or night vision, medical imaging, spectroscopy and space exploration.
UCF Researchers Develop Unique ‘Barcodes’ for Molecules to Help Expedite Medical Advancements UCF NanoScience Technology Center researchers developed an easier way to identify unique molecules by their chiral spectral fingerprints, which could help in creating pharmaceuticals or biomolecules.
UCF Researchers Develop Rapid Test to Detect Dopamine The sensor could serve as a low-cost and efficient tool for early detection of neurological disorders and conditions, including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and depression.
UCF Researcher Develops Lotus-inspired Tech to Convert CO2 to Fuels, Chemicals Nanoscience Associate Professor Yang Yang has designed a nature-inspired filtration and conversion system that extracts carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere to create fuels and chemicals.
UCF Physics Grad Earns International Award for Innovations in Photon Detection Techniques Recent UCF physics doctoral graduate Tianyi Guo ’23PhD earned an international thesis award from Springer Nature and was published in in the high-impact Springer Theses book series.
UCF Researchers Develop Nano-treatment to Help Save Florida Mangroves from Deadly Disease The scientists are harnessing nanoscience to concoct a special nutritional formula to fight a latent yet potentially lethal disease that is increasingly threatening mangroves in Florida and across the world.
Company Founded by UCF Alumnus Earns Prestigious Air Force Contract to Propel Innovation Helicon Chemical Company was recently awarded a Tactical Funding Increase Contract by the U.S. Air Force for its crucial propellant technologies.
UCF Researcher Further Explores Nanotech to Improve Cancer and Disease Detection Building upon his previous nanoparticle research, Xiaohu Xia received a National Institutes of Health grant to further enhance the sensitivity and accuracy of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) testing to screen for cancers and other diseases.
UCF Alum, Tech Entrepreneur’s New Venture Tackles Constraints in AI, Cloud Computing Orlando Business Journal
