If you’ve ever used your phone in sunlight only to see a reflection of your own face, moths might have your back. Inspired by the natural nanostructures that keep the insect’s eyes from being shiny, a team from the University of Central Florida has developed an antireflective film for phone screens.
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Scientists at the University of Central Florida have developed a way to effectively shrink pixels down to a third of their size, using different voltages to tune the color of individual subpixels to red, green or blue. The result could be screens with much higher resolution and improved brightness.
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Dcientists at the University of Central Florida have come up with synthetic material that draws on visible light from the sun to produce solar fuels, sucking harmful CO2 out of the air in the process.
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Building habitats, tools and parts out of local resources would be ideal for the first human colonists of Mars. So researchers from NASA and UCF are investigating how metals could be extracted from the Martian soil, refined, and used as “ink” to 3D print vital components.
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To counter blood clots, surgeons administer blood thinning drugs throughout a procedure, but knowing when to do so is difficult. By shining light through the patient’s blood, researchers have developed a new system that gives surgeons real-time feedback and alerts them at the first sign of a clot.
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Researchers at the University of Central Florida have created a supercapcitor that can not only be fully-charged in mere seconds, but can go on to be recharged more than 30,000 times without affecting performance or capacity.
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With the rise of mobile technologies comes a need for mobile power sources, and scientists are now claiming another step forward in the form of solar-energy-storing filaments that could one day lace power-generating outerwear for soldiers in the battlefield.
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A team of researchers has created a new device that allows for the steering of light around sharper corners than ever before. The device is tiny, constructed from an inexpensive material, and could one day become an integral part of computer hardware.
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A human mechanical surrogate is part of a program by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to create robots, avatars, and animatronic surrogates for military training.
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Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Central Florida have developed a new fiber optics cable capable of transmitting the contents of over 5,000 DVDs in a single second – a speed six times greater than the previous record.
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