RESEARCH
DEVELOPING NEW MATERIALS FOR MOBILE DEVICES JENNIFER ANDREW, PH.D., IS ENGINEERING SCALABLE AND HIGHPERFORMANCE MAGNETIC MATERIALS THROUGH A $1.4 MILLION NSF GRANT THAT WILL BE USED IN POWER ADAPTERS. Three professors from UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering are developing nanocomposite magnetic materials with high saturation and low loss for miniaturizing power magnetic components. This
research
grant
will
help
identify new synthetic and nanomanufacturing processes and harness the beneficial properties of metal- and oxide-based materials. It will optimize the creation of compact power inductors and transformers while still making them compatible with current manufacturing standards.
Jennifer Andrew, Ph.D. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Associate Professor
Out of This World MSE Professor Dr. Josephine Allen will study the cells back on earth to look for changes as a result of microgravity.
Josephine Allen, Ph.D. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
“When astronauts go into space they are experiencing extreme conditions which include magnified levels of radiation compared to earth and anti-gravity that doesn’t exist here,” she said. The goal of this study is to compare
Genzyme Associate Professor of the health of Earth-grown vascular Materials Science & Engineering
cells with vascular cells that go into
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space and experience radiation and microgravity environments onboard the international space station. The cells will be studied on campus in the Allen Lab at UF to look at changes in genomics and transcriptomics, which provides insight into the genes that are actively expressed and change based on external environments, and to gain better insight into the molecular mechanisms behind cardiovascular disease through seeing how these cells restructure themselves.
