UCLA team wins the 2024 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize: Stephanie L. Kwolek Prize
2 years ago
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The Van der Waals Thin Film Team, co-led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, Professor Yu Huang (Materials Science and Engineering), and Professor Jun Chen (Bioengineering), receives the RSC 2024 Materials Chemistry […]
UCLA team wins the 2024 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Faraday Horizon Prize
2 years ago
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The Electrical Transport Spectroscopy Team, co-led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, Professor Anastassia Alexandrova, and Professor Yu Huang (Engineering), receives the RSC 2024 Faraday Horizon Prize for the development of electron […]
Faculty in the News – Michael Jung
2 years ago
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Distinguished Professor Michael E. Jung, the Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in Medicinal Drug Discovery and scientific co-founder of Pelage Pharmaceuticals, has helped the company raise $16.75 million to advance […]
UCLA team wins the 2024 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Organic Chemistry Horizon Prize
2 years ago
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The Molecular Strainers Team at UCLA, led by Professor Neil Garg and Professor Ken Houk, receives the RSC 2024 Organic Chemistry Horizon Prize: Perkin Prize in Physical Organic Chemistry for […]
Professor Richard Kaner delivers Timms Lecture at the University of Bristol
2 years ago
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The University of Bristol recently hosted Professor Richard Kaner for the prestigious Timms Lecture as part of the Peter Timms Symposium 2024. Known for his groundbreaking work in materials science, […]
2024 Commencement Ceremony
2 years ago
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On June 15, the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry hosted this year’s commencement ceremony to celebrate the graduating class of 2024. The ceremony, held in Drake Stadium, began with […]
Researchers achieve most precise measurement of thorium-229 for future nuclear clocks
2 years ago
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Professor Anastassia Alexandrova and postdoctoral associate Dr. Harry Morgan, along with their collaborators from UCLA Physics, are developing 229Th-based solid-state nuclear clocks, which promise to outperform the current state-of-the-art atomic […]
Atomic-scale mapping of MXenes unveils new insights
2 years ago
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Professor Paul S. Weiss and collaborators from Drexel University have performed the first scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy studies of MXenes, a recently discovered class of two-dimensional materials, mapping their […]