Professor Heather Maynard is co-leader of a group of UCLA researchers who have developed glucose-responsive micelles that encapsulate and protect glucagon, releasing it only when blood sugar levels drop dangerously […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Dr. Eric Scerri delivers the opening plenary lecture at the annual meeting of the Italian Chemical Society, in Milan, on “A brief historical and philosophical […]

Professor Sarah Tolbert is co-leading a team of three UCLA faculty members in the newly launched Aqueous Battery Consortium, which aims to develop next-generation rechargeable batteries using water-based electrolytes. From […]

Professor Ellen Sletten and longtime collaborator Professor Oliver Bruns (NCT/UCC Dresden) have received the prestigious Helmholtz High Impact Award 2024. Sletten and Bruns are being recognized for developing an innovative […]

Professor Benjamin Schwartz recently delivered the 2024 Hush Lecture, titled “The Role of the Solvent in Chemical Identity, Chemical Reactivity, and Quantum Decoherence,” at the University of Sydney, Australia, on […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is excited to announce that five talented researchers and educators will be joining the department in the coming months. Please join us in […]

Professor Joan Valentine is part of a team of researchers from UCLA, the University of Michigan, and the California Institute of Technology, who argue that iron was life’s earliest, and […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan and co-first author, alumna Dr. Bosi Peng (Ph.D. ’22), are part of a UCLA-led team that has developed an ultrafine platinum nanocatalyst embedded with cobalt oxide clusters, […]