QUAntum Sensing for Humanity (QUASH) event brings together builders and users of quantum sensors
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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 […]
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 […]
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
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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 […]
Superhard Materials at the Nanoscale: Smaller is Better
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Professors Sarah Tolbert, Richard Kaner, and Abby Kavner are part of a team of researchers who have found that smaller grain sizes in the superhard material rhenium diboride (ReB₂) increase […]