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    UNG chemistry professor, students' research published in scholarly journal

    October 4, 2017
    UNG chemistry professor Dr. Aimée Tomlinson and three of her students hope their research will someday result in improving fighter pilots' field of vision during combat.

    Article By: Staff

    University of North Georgia (UNG) chemistry professor Dr. Aimée Tomlinson and three of her students hope their research will someday result in improving fighter pilots' field of vision during combat.

    With funding from Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Tomlinson and her team, comprised of current UNG student Lily Rainwater and alums David Wheeler('16) and Alexa Green('17), collaborated with a research group from Georgia Tech. The long-term goal of the project was to generate electrochromic materials (which could change from clear to black); basically, a material that will change color when it comes in contact with sunlight.

    The USAF's use for the material would be when fighter pilots are using cloud cover for concealment in combat and then come out into direct sunlight at high speed. The pilots are momentarily blinded during the transition when they lower their sun visors, taking a hand off the controls to do so. The researchers want to develop a material to cover either the pilot's visor or the cockpit cowling that will allow a clear to dark transition to occur nearly instantaneously.

    The result of their findings from two years of research is a paper titled "Modeling electrochromic polydioxythiophene-containing materials through time-dependent density functional theory ," published in July in the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Chemistry's journal, "Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics."

     

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    Ethics events provide training for students

    Ethics events provide training for students

    UNG's Ethics Bowl team participated in its national competition March 4-5, and UNG's cadet Ethics Bowl team will host the first Senior Military College Ethics Bowl on March 25.
    Students present research at Capitol

    Students present research at Capitol

    Four UNG students presented at Posters at the Capitol event held Feb. 27 in Atlanta. The Georgia Undergraduate Research Collective organized the event.
    Cadets grateful for experience at Capitol

    Cadets grateful for experience at Capitol

    UNG cadets were thankful for the chance to take part in a review by Gov. Brian Kemp on March 7 in Atlanta in honor of UNG's 150th anniversary.
    Chemistry lab added to Blue Ridge Campus

    Chemistry lab added to Blue Ridge Campus

    UNG's Blue Ridge Campus made history as the spring 2023 semester began by holding its first chemistry class.

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