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UK’s Paterson, Track-1 Hire, Earns 2 Prestigious National Awards for Research, innovation

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Written By Lindsay Travis, UK Research Communications. Photos by UK Engineering Alexandra F. Paterson’s research paves the way for more reliable and innovative technologies that could benefit health care, manufacturing and everyday life. For her work, she has earned two prestigious national awards for early-career faculty: the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) …

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UK Interdisciplinary Team Granted NSF Award to Build Insights into Mixed Electronic-Ionic Transport, STEM Outreach in Kentucky

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As KY NSF EPSCoR’s five-year project—Kentucky Advanced Manufacturing Partnership for Enhanced Robotics and Structures (KAMPERS)—nears completion, it is crucial to highlight not only the accomplishments under the Track-1 award but also to feature follow-on awards, which will continue to push scientific innovation. As KY NSF EPSCoR program director Rodney Andrews emphasized in year one, “This …

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Paterson Group Publication Enhances Merit Analysis in Organic Electronics Scientific Community

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Lexington, KY – Merit analysis is a vital element of the scientific process, ensuring that research is based on rigorous evidence and sound methodology. It enables scientific advancement, boosts credibility, quality, and reliability for future research. It allows a research community to build a common language, common practices, and common logic. Sometimes, however, a discovery …

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WATCH: PEDOT:PSS FIBERS APPLIED TO Organic transistors

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In this video, PhD student researcher Paula Alarcon-Espejo walks us through the utilization of PEDOT:PSS fibers in Organic Electrochemical Transistors (OECTs). These transistors are biocompatible and can their optimization can help create flexible, conductive materials for use in textiles, prosthetics, and other applications. Organic semiconductors and electrochemical transistors promise to enable new generations of low-cost, …

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Paterson group releases first publication featuring Organic Electrochemical Transistors

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Organic semiconductors and electrochemical transistors promise to enable new generations of low-cost, mechanically flexible, and wearable electronic devices. With this novel chemical doping process discovered by the Alexandra Paterson team and collaborators, this promise is one step closer to fulfillment. A publication titled, “New Chemical Dopant and Counterion Mechanism for Organic Electrochemical Transistors and Organic …

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WATCH: Carrot, Tobacco, Moss & Marigold: Unlocking Plant Genetics with UofL’s Biology Team

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This video is produced by KY NSF EPSCoR Communcations, under NSF Award #1849213 https://youtu.be/Prj6h_hcy6E In fulfillment of Objective 1.1.2: Explore to what extent new materials synthesized through synthetic biology can yield superior structural polymers or resins with programmable lifetimes. The UofL team has isolated plant and fungal genes encoding enzymes capable of producing conductive and …

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UK’s John Anthony honored with 2023 SEC Faculty Achievement Award

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By Jenny Wells-Hosley, UK PR John Anthony, the C. W. Hammond Professor of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named winner of the 2023 SEC Faculty Achievement Award for the University of Kentucky this spring. Anthony, who also serves as associate director at the Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER), was awarded with 13 other …

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watch uofl’s jared scott infuse a tobbaco plant with nylon precursors

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As part of Objective 1.1.2. of KY NSF EPSCoR’s strategic plan, Explore to what extent new materials synthesized through synthetic biology can yield superior structural polymers or resins with programmable lifetimes. Dr. David Schultz and Dr. Mark Running’s labs at the University of Louisville have isolated plant and fungal genes encoding enzymes capable of producing …

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WKU’s Ozer, Aydin, Represent EPSCoR-supported research at IEEE Conference, Mexico

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Ahmet Kaan Aydin, the WKU’s John D. Minton awardee of 2022, from Mathematics has successfully presented his paper co-authored with Prof. Ahmet Ozkan Ozer at the prestigious 61st IEEE Conference on Control and Decision in Cancun, Mexico, taking place from December 6-9, 2022. Ahmet’s research was fully funded by the Kentucky NSF EPSCoR KAMPERS (National …

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Sarabia, alarcon present at mrs meeting

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Dr. Ruben Sarabia was invited speaker at the 2022 MRS meeting in Boston.  He presented his pioneering work in PEDOT fiber processing as part of the Symposium: SB10-New E-Textile Materials and Devices for Wearable Electronics.  PhD student, Paula Alarcon (Paterson & Weisenberger), also presented her work on PEDOT fiber OECTs in the same session.   https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events/fall-meetings-exhibits/2022-mrs-fall-meeting/call-for-papers/detail/2022_mrs_fall_meeting/sb10/Symposium_SB10