New faculty member Professor Kalli Kappel uncovers molecular rules that govern how cells organize themselves. By Benjamin Paul (UCLA Division of Physical Sciences) A team of scientists at UCLA has […]

New faculty member Professor Thomas Fay examines how electron spin could influence molecular handedness on early Earth. By Benjamin Paul (UCLA Division of Physical Sciences) Thomas Fay is a professor of […]

Research by a UCLA team led by Professor Richard Kaner, Dr. Maher El-Kady, and graduate student Zhiyin (Tara) Yang is featured on the front cover of ChemSusChem, a leading journal […]

UCLA researchers led by Professor Soumitra Athavale have taught enzymes an entirely new reaction mechanism—a radical hydrogenation process that nature itself never discovered. Hydrogenation — the process of adding hydrogen […]

Professors Gerard Wong and Paul S. Weiss, together with Wong group postdoctoral researcher Dr. Calvin Lee and bioengineering Ph.D. student William Schmidt, are part of a research team that has […]

In a pair of recent studies published as back-to-back articles in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a research team led by the Wong group has unveiled new insights […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan and graduate student Boxuan Zhou (Materials Science and Engineering) lead a research team that has developed a durable, low-cost, printable light-emitting membrane from ultrathin molybdenum disulfide and […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan is co-leader of a group of UCLA researchers who have developed a new method for combining magnetic elements with semiconductors — which are vital materials for computers […]