{"id":82961,"date":"2018-05-31T12:06:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=82961"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:35:55","slug":"ucf-engineer-honored-world-academy-ceramics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-engineer-honored-world-academy-ceramics\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Engineer to be Honored by World Academy of Ceramics"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCF engineering<\/a> professor Sudipta Seal is one of only four Americans and 20 scientists worldwide named to the World Academy of Ceramics for 2018.<\/p>\n

Seal\u2019s cutting-edge work has been cited by other scholars more than 17,000 times since 2013, according to Google Scholar, and thousands more times before that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The academy will honor the scientists June 4 at its 14th<\/sup> annual meeting in Perugia, Italy, for their \u201crenowned contributions to the advancement of this field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seal has certainly delivered throughout his remarkable career. His discoveries blend engineering, materials science and nanotechnology and have resulted in applications to medicine, space and the environment.<\/p>\n

Seal, a Pegasus Professor and Trustee Chair, has developed surface-engineered nanoscale transition metals and earth oxide ceramics that work as catalysts, which can be used in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n

For example, the oxide ceramics have led to a way to use fly ash \u2013 the dirty byproduct of burning coal \u2013 to absorb oil. The technology may be able to be used to clean up oil spills in waterways, because while the material absorbs oil, it repels water. Another potential application of the ceramics work is to create coatings that help protect against corrosion, wear and unwanted chemical reactions with other biomaterials, which may be useful to a variety of industries.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am deeply honored by this election to the academy with my esteemed colleagues around the world and glad to see that our work is recognized amongst the peers,\u201d Seal said.<\/p>\n

Seal\u2019s cutting-edge work has been cited by other scholars more than 17,000 times since 2013, according to Google Scholar, and thousands more times before that.<\/p>\n

He has several degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, the 海角直播 of Sheffield in England and the 海角直播 of Wisconsin, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the 海角直播 of California before heading to working for a private company. He joined UCF in 1997 as an engineering professor of materials science and went onto become the director of the Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center<\/a>, and later the NanoScience Technology Center<\/a>. He now serves as the department chair for materials science and engineering.<\/p>\n

He has spun out his own company to take some of his inventions to market and his research is supported through grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, NASA, Department of Defense, Northrop Grumman and other industries.<\/p>\n

Seal also will be honored later this year when he is inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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