A moisture-absorbing cooling composite enhances solar panel efficiency and durability in hot, humid climates.

Konstantin Vodopyanov, a professor at UCF's College of Sciences and CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics co-authored a new study that explores how EOS transmits ultrashort laser pulses through crystals that change in response to an applied electric field. This technique allows researchers to accurately capture the shape and timing of electric fields across a broad range of frequencies.

Researchers have developed a real-time imaging system that can capture images of fast-spinning objects over long durations, which could enhance safety by preventing serious failures and reducing maintenance needs.

Tianjin Normal University (Prof. Cheng-Peng Li) and Southeast Normal University (Prof. Yan-Qian Lan) have developed crystalline porous framework (CPF) composite beads to trap ⁹⁹TcO₄^– in nuclear wastewater. 1 g of beads processed 4.8 L of pre-treated simulated waste, with residual Tc levels reduced to 0.026 ppb—significantly below the WHO (0.159 ppb) and U.S. EPA (0.053 ppb) drinking water standards (calculated from nonradioactive surrogate ReO₄^–). This scalable strategy enables deep purification of trace radionuclide, enabling industrial deployment of nanoscale adsorbent technologies.

Found in knee replacements and bone plates, aircraft components, and catalytic converters, the exceptionally strong metals known as multiple principal element alloys (MPEA) are about to get even stronger through to artificial intelligence.

Sanket Deshmukh, associate professor in chemical engineering, and his team have designed a new MPEA with superior mechanical properties using a data-driven framework that leverages the supercomputing power of explainable artificial intelligence (AI). Their findings, supported by funding from the National Science Foundation, were recently published in Nature’s npj Computational Materials.