Plastic supercapacitors could solve energy storage problems
4 months ago
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Professor Richard Kaner, professional researcher Dr. Maher El-Kady, and Materials Science and Engineering alumnus Dr. Musibau Francis Jimoh lead a team of UCLA chemists who have developed a novel, textured, […]

Origin of Life Favors One ‘Hand’ of Chemical Building Blocks?
6 months ago
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New research by Professor Irene Chen’s group and NASA collaborators, focused on structures that could have been around during the RNA world, suggests RNA did not initially have a predisposed […]

Organic chemists take on “Bredt’s Rule” 100 years later
7 months ago
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A new study by UCLA organic chemists shows how to create several types of molecules that violate Bredt’s rule, known as anti-Bredt olefins (ABOs). Many modern textbooks and online resources […]

New insights into cysteine-reactive small molecules
7 months ago
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A team of UCLA researchers led by Professor Keriann Backus and graduate students Ashley R. Julio and Flowreen Shikwana has shed new light on the functional consequences of cysteine-reactive compounds […]

QUAntum Sensing for Humanity (QUASH) event brings together builders and users of quantum sensors
8 months ago
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The QUASH event, led by UCLA faculty and CNSI members, explored the potential of quantum sensing to address climate change and public health challenges. From the California NanoSystems Institute News […]

Iron was life’s ‘primeval’ metal, say scientists
8 months ago
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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 […]

UCLA-led research doubles DOE fuel cell lifetime target with new catalyst material
9 months ago
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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, […]

UCLA chemists and physicists collaborate to study atomic physics in a beaker
10 months ago
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A team led by Professors Justin Caram, Anastassia Alexandrova, and Paula Diaconescu, with Wes Campbell from UCLA Physics and Astronomy, have developed a new platform for magnetic sensing technology, they […]
