Scientists grow organic semiconductor crystals vertically for first time
Our smartphones, tablets, computers and biosensors all have improved because of the rapidly increasing efficiency of semiconductors.
View ArticleNeil Garg named 2015 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching...
Neil Garg, professor and vice chair for education in UCLA’s department of chemistry and biochemistry, has been selected as the 2015 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching California...
View ArticleIn memoriam: Professor emeritus Howard Reiss
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977, Reiss was an accomplished physical chemist and theorist who worked in a variety of fields, including including solid state, statistical mechanics,...
View ArticleThree UCLA professors named 2016 Guggenheim Fellows
A trio of UCLA faculty members are among a distinguished group of 178 of scholars, artists and scientists from the U.S. and Canada to receive 2016 Guggenheim Fellowships.
View ArticleJ. Fraser Stoddart wins 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry
J. Fraser Stoddart, who was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA from 1997 to 2008 and is currently the Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, has been...
View ArticleScientists grow organic semiconductor crystals vertically for first time
Our smartphones, tablets, computers and biosensors all have improved because of the rapidly increasing efficiency of semiconductors.
View ArticleNeil Garg named 2015 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching...
Neil Garg, professor and vice chair for education in UCLA’s department of chemistry and biochemistry, has been selected as the 2015 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching California...
View ArticleIn memoriam: Professor emeritus Howard Reiss
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977, Reiss was an accomplished physical chemist and theorist who worked in a variety of fields, including including solid state, statistical mechanics,...
View ArticleThree UCLA professors named 2016 Guggenheim Fellows
A trio of UCLA faculty members are among a distinguished group of 178 of scholars, artists and scientists from the U.S. and Canada to receive 2016 Guggenheim Fellowships.
View ArticleJ. Fraser Stoddart wins 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry
J. Fraser Stoddart, who was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA from 1997 to 2008 and is currently the Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, has been...
View Article$2 million gift from alumnus establishes UCLA faculty chairs in chemistry and...
The gift will create the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Polymer Science and the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation.
View ArticleHydrogen cars for the masses one step closer to reality, thanks to UCLA...
UCLA researchers have designed a device that can use solar energy to inexpensively and efficiently create and store energy, which could be used to power electronic devices, and to create hydrogen fuel...
View ArticleUCLA’s Neil Garg wins country’s leading teaching award and its $250,000 prize
The Cherry Award honors outstanding professors who are extraordinary, inspiring teachers with a positive, long-lasting effect on students and a record of distinguished scholarship.
View ArticleUCLA-led center receives $9.75 million to improve rechargeable batteries
With the funding, the new UCLA-led Synthetic Control Across Length-scales for Advancing Rechargeables center, or SCALAR, will help accelerate research on new types of chemistry and materials for...
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Best in snow: New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall
UCLA researchers and colleagues have designed a new device that creates electricity from falling snow. The first of its kind, this device is inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of...
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New insights about carbon and ice could clarify inner workings of Earth,...
New simulations suggest that carbon (C) routinely bonded with iron (Fe), silicon (Si) and oxygen (O) deep within the magma ocean that covered Earth when it was young. Most people behave differently...
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Biochemists discover new insights into what may go awry in brains of people...
Research by UCLA professor Steven Clarke and former graduate student Rebeccah Warmack, as well as UCLA colleagues, reveals new information about the brain’s biochemistry. More than three decades of...
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Two UCLA College faculty members awarded 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships
UCLA College professors Jose Rodriguez (left) and Erik Petigura (right). Two young UCLA College professors, and two others, are among 126 scientists and scholars from more than 60 colleges and...
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UCLA’s 2020-2021 Beckman Scholars Announced
From left: Sasha Gill-Ljunghammer and Hieu Nguyen (Photo Courtesy of UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry) Undergraduate researchers Sasha Gill-Ljunghammer (Tolbert Group) and Hieu Nguyen...
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Richard Kaner wins award from American Chemical Society
Richard Kaner, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and of materials science and engineering at UCLA. Richard Kaner, the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Professor of Materials Innovation at UCLA,...
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