UCF Study Suggests Some Alzheimer鈥檚 Symptoms May Begin Outside the Brain Using聽human-on-a-chip technology, UCF researchers聽reveal聽that聽movement-related聽Alzheimer鈥檚聽symptoms聽may聽start聽in the body鈥檚 nerves and muscles.
UCF Researcher Creates Improved Method to Harvest Hydrogen Energy Associate Professor Yang Yang has developed a renewable 鈥渢hin-film鈥� catalyst that uses microscopic patterns for cleaner, more affordable chemical manufacturing and fabrication.
UCF Researcher Creates Color-Changing, Tunable Photonic Material Inspired by Nature A new technology developed by Professor Debashis Chanda allows materials to change color on demand, with potential applications in camouflage, textiles, thermal sensing, reconfigurable displays and more.
UCF Researcher Creates Novel Sensors for Smartphone-Based Health Monitoring Professor Debashis Chanda鈥檚 low-cost, smartphone-based biosensor could bring rapid, reliable disease detection to areas with limited access to traditional diagnostics.
UCF Faculty, Graduate Student Develop Organ-on-a-Chip Technology for Industry This commercialized technology by researchers uses noninvasive methods to measure the electrical resistance of cell layers to help diagnose diseases.
UCF Researchers Developing New Methods to Passively Mitigate Lunar Dust for Space Exploration A team of interdisciplinary UCF researchers is leading a NASA research project to prevent abrasive, harmful lunar dust accumulation on astronauts and their equipment by fabricating a specialized nanocoating.
5 UCF Researchers Use 2025 NSF CAREER Awards to Address Emerging Challenges in Computer Science, Engineering The early-career professors were recognized for their excellence with significant research funding as part of a prestigious and highly competitive annual U.S. National Science Foundation grant program.
UCF Among Top 20 U.S. Public Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents in 2024 With this ranking, UCF secures its placement with 68 patents on the National Academy of Inventors worldwide list for the 12th consecutive year.
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 鈥淐olor鈥� 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.
