The Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO) has awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award to Pegasus Professor Sudipta Seal. The award is presented to those who have made significant achievements in the field of sustainable nanotechnology and contributed greatly to SNO.
Seal was presented with the award at the 13th annual SNO conference in Rhode Island.
“I am deeply honored to receive this award from SNO,” Seal says. “It is a testament not only to my dedication but also to the relentless efforts of my research group over the years, and the unwavering support of my family. This achievement belongs to all of us.”
Upon receiving the award, Seal also gave the plenary lecture titled “The Journey of a Nano Rare Earth Oxide: From Metallurgy to Medicine.” Through his research, Seal has developed surface-engineered nanoscale transition metal and rare earth oxide ceramics for catalysis, energetics and nano-biomedicine. He has developed scalable methods for template-free nano oxide particles, and engineered nanoceria with switchable valence states with regeneration capability.
Some his more recent research projects include a collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center to develop a nanoparticle vehicle to deliver cancer therapy to the brain, and an effort to create a virus-killing disinfectant with other UCF researchers and alumni.
Seal joined UCF and the Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center (AMPAC) in 1997. He has been consistently productive in research, instruction and service to UCF since 1998. He has served as the Nano Initiative coordinator for the vice president of research and commercialization, and the director of AMPAC and the NanoScience Technology Center from 2009 to 2017. Seal is currently the chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, as well as a Pegasus Professor and a University Distinguished Professor.
- Written by Marisa Ramiccio
- Nov. 19, 2024