About Us
Our research may be best characterized as biophotonics, photonic materials and molecular engineering. Particular emphasis focuses on the synthesis and characterization of nonlinear optical, photoresponsive, electrostrictive, and magnetostrictive nanostructured materials. Molecular self-assembly and development of new polymer grafting methods are being investigated to prepare stable, highly functionalized polymeric materials.
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Presentation 3/27/2012
Dr. Kevin D. Belfield presented (03/27/2012): Wang, X.; Morales, A. R.; Belfield, K. D. Surface Modification of a Silica Nanoprobe for Fluorescence Bioimaging of HeLa Cells. American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 25-29, 2012.
Presentation 3/26/2012
Ms. Rosmery Victoria presented (03/26/2012): Victoria, R.; Frazer, A.; Morales, A. R.; Belfield, K. D. Development of Luminescent Ruthenium RGD Peptide Conjugate Complex for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging. American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 25-29, 2012.
Presentation 3/26/2012
Ms. Kasey Haugen presented (03/26/2012): Haugen, K. C.; Frazer, A.; Morales, A. R.; Belfield, K. D. Synthesis and Nonlinear Optical Characterization of a Novel Near infrared Emitting Diphenylaminofluorene-based Aza-BODIPY Dye. American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 25-29, 2012.
Presentation 3/26/2012
Mr. Hafeez Haniff presented (03/26/2012): Haniff, H.; Zhang, Y.; Belfield, K. D. Aggregation and Photophysical Studies of New Squaraine Dyes. American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 25-29, 2012.
Presentation 3/26/2012
Ms. Yezabel Colon presented (03/26/2012): Colon Gomez, M. Y.; Yao. S.; Belfield, K. D. Squaraine Dyes for Photovoltaic and Bioimaging Applications. American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 25-29, 2012.
Presentation 3/16/2012
Dr. Kevin D. Belfield presented (03/26/2012): Biswas, S.; Ahn, H.-Y.; Bondar, M. V.; Belfield, K. D. J-Aggregation and Two-Photon Absorption Enhancement of Polymer-templated Porphyrin Derivatives. American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 25-29, 2012.
Presentation 10/27/2011
Dr. Kevin D. Belfield presented (10/27/2011): Belfield, K. D. Development of Probes for Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy: Synthesis, Photophysics, and ex Vivo Tumor Imaging. Washington University of St. Louis, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, October 27, 2011, St. Louis, MO invited.
Presentation 1/23/2012
Dr. Kevin D. Belfield presented (01/23/2012): Belfield, K. D. One- and Two-photon Fluorescence Folate Receptor Bioimaging with an Aggregate-enhanced Emission Silica Nanoprobe. Photonics West BIOS, January 21-26, 2012, San Francisco, CA invited.
Presentation 1/12/2012
Dr. Kevin D. Belfield presented (01/12/2012): Belfield, K. D. Two-photon Ex-vivo Tumor Imaging: From Probes to 3D Virtual Histology. 15th Annual Southeast Ultrafast Conference, January 12-13, Orlando, FL.
Presentation 1/12/2012
Dr. Ciceron O. Yanez presented (01/12/2012): Yanez, C. O.; Belfield, K. D. Two-photon Fluorescence Deep Vascular Imaging. 15th Annual Southeast Ultrafast Conference, January 12-13, Orlando, FL.
Presentation 08/28/2011
Dr Kevin Belfield presents "In Vivo Folate Receptor Targeting with Aggregate-enhanced Emission from a Hybrid Silica nanoprobe and Two-photon Fluorescence Imaging" at ACS National Meeting in Denver, CO
Author(s) - Belfield, K. D.; Wang, X.; Morales, A. M.; Urakami, T.; Zhang, L.; Bondar, M. V.; Komatsu, M.
Presentation 08/22/2011
Dr Kevin Belfield presents "Two-photon ex Vivo Tissue Imaging. Cancer Detection and Diagnostics Technologies for Global Health" at National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Author(s) - Belfield, K. D.
Presentation 07/20/2011
Dr Kevin Belfield invited to present "New Probe for Folate Receptor-targeted Aggregation Enhanced Emission and Stimulated Emission Depletion for One-photon in vivo and Two-photon ex vivo Fluorescence Bioimaging" at 2011 Workshop on Fluorescence Chemosensor and Bio-imaging, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
Author(s) - Belfield. K. D.
Dissertation Defence 07/08/2011
Congratulations to Hyo-Yang Ahn on successfully defending her dissertation!
Dissertation Defence 07/07/2011
Congratulations to Gheorghe Luchita on successfully defending his dissertation!
Poster Presentation 06/26/2011
Dr Kevin Belfield presents "Aggregate-enhanced near-IR Emission and Two-Photon Stimulated Emission Depletion of a New V-shaped Fluorene Derivative" at 2011 Physical Organic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference, Holderness, NH
Author(s) - Belfield, K. D.; Wang, X.; Morales, A. M.; Urakami, T.; Komatsu, M.; Zhang, L.; Bondar, M. V.
Poster Presentation 06/26/2011
Dr Maher Qaddoura presents "Liquid Crystalline-directed Supramolecular Assembly of Squaraines" at 2011 Physical Organic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference, Holderness, NH
Author(s) - Qaddoura, M. A.; Belfield, K. D.; Heiney, P. A.
Award 04/11/2011
Dr Kevin Belfield has been presented with the Pegasus Professor Award. This award recognizes extraordinary contributions to the UCF community through teaching, research and service.
Poster Presentation 04/06/2011
Dr Alma Morales presents "Two-Photon Fluorescence Vascular Imaging with a New Fluorene-RGD Peptide Conjugate" at 2011 Optical Society of America Optics & Photonics Congress, Monterey, CA
Author(s) - Morales, A. R.; Yanez, C.O.; Urakami, T.; Komatsu, M.; Belfield, K. D.
Poster Presentation 04/06/2011
Dr Kevin Belfield presents "Two-Photon Fluorescence Imaging with a Tumor Penetrating Bioconjugate" at 2011 Optical Society of America Optics & Photonics Congress, Monterey, CA
Author(s) - Yanez, C.O.; Morales, A. R.; Urakami, T.; Komatsu, M.; Belfield, K. D.
Poster Presentation 04/04/2011
Xuhua Wang presents " Folate Receptor-targeted Aggregation enhanced Emission Silica Nanoprobe for One-photon in vivo and Two-photon ex vivo Fluorescence Bioimaging" at 2011 Optical Society of America Optics & Photonics Congress, Monterey, CA
Author(s) - Wang, X.; Morales, A. R.; Urakami, T.; Komatsu, M.; Belfield, K. D.
Poster Presentation 04/04/2011
Dr Mykhailo Bondar presents " Two-Photon Absorbing Fluorene Derivatives with Efficient Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) for Bioimaging" at 2011 Optical Society of America Optics & Photonics Congress, Monterey, CA
Author(s) - Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Morales, A. R.; Przhonska, O., V.; Wang, X.
Poster Presentation 04/04/2011
Hyo-Yang Ahn presents "Near-Infrared Emitting Squaraine Dyes for Multiphoton Fluorescence Imaging with High 2PA Cross Sections" at 2011 Optical Society of America Optics & Photonics Congress, Monterey, CA
Author(s) - Ahn, H.-Y.; Yao, S.; Wang, X.; Belfield, K. D.
Poster Presentation 04/04/2011
Dr Ciceron Yanez presents " Ex vivo Tumor Imaging with a VEGFR-2 Selective Two-Photon Absorbing (2PA) Bioconjugate" at 2011 Optical Society of America Optics & Photonics Congress, Monterey, CA
Author(s) - Andrade, C. D.; Yanez, C.O.; Ahn, H.-Y.; Belfield, K. D.; Urakami, T.; Komatsu, M.
Poster Presentation 04/04/2011
Dr Andrew Frazer presents " Novel Two-Photon Fluorescence Probes for Zinc Ion Sensing at 2011 Optical Society of America Optics & Photonics Congress, Monterey, CA
Author(s) - Frazer, A.; Wang, X.; Nguyen, D. M.; Morales, A. R.; Belfield, K. D.
Poster Presentation 04/04/2011
Dr Carolina Andrade presents " Two-Photon Absorbing Probes and Their Use in Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy of Cells and ex vivo Imaging of Tumors" at 2011 Optical Society of America Optics & Photonics Congress, Monterey, CA
Author(s) - Yanez, C.O.; Andrade, C. D.; Morales, A. R.; Urakami, T.; Komatsu, M.; Belfield, K. D.
Poster Presentation 03/27/2011
Dr Kevin Belfield presents " Intergin Recognition and Two-Photon Fluorescence Imaging With Well-Defined Multifunctional Block Copolymer Probes" at ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA
Author(s) - Biswas, S.; Wang, X.; Ahn, H.-Y.; Belfield, K. D.
Poster Presentation 03/27/2011
Dr Sheng Yao presents " Photochromism and Two-Photon Absorption of a Novel Fluorenyl-Diarylethene" at ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA
Author(s) - Bondar, M. V.; Yao, S.; Belfield, K. D.
Poster Presentation 03/27/2011
Maher Qaddoura presents " Self-assembly Behavior of Series of Squaraine Dyes Based on 2, 4-Bis [4-(N, N-dialkylamino)-2-hydroxyphenyl]squaraine" at ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA
Author(s) - Qaddoura, M. A.; Belfield, K. D.; Tongwa, P.; Timofeeva, T. V.; Heiney, P. A.
Poster Presentation 01/21/2011
Dr Kevin Belfield presents "Two-Photon Fluorescence Vascular Imaging with a New Fluorene-anti-VEGFR-2 Conjugate" at Photonics West, San Francisco, CA
Author(s) - Andrade, C. D.; Yanez, C. O.; Ahn, H.-Y.; Belfield, K. D.; Chai, K. X.; Chen, L.-M.
Award
Maria Yezabel Colon Gomez has been presented with the Beckman Scholars Award.
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Maria Yezabel Colon Gomez has been presented with the Research and Mentoring Program (RAMP) Award.
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Rosmery Victoria has been presented with the Honors in the Major Scholarship.
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Kasey Haugen has been presented with the Research and Mentoring Program (RAMP) Award.
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Ramone Eldermire has been presented with the Young Entrepreneur and Scholar (YES) Schoarship Award.
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Dr Ciceron Yanez has been presented with the James and Ester King Biomedical Research Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award
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Binglin Sui has been presented with the UCF Trustees' Doctoral Fellowship. This is award to superior graduate students who are newly enrolling at UCF in one of its doctoral programs or tracks.
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