Chemists use oxygen and copper “scissors” to cut carbon bonds and create new, valuable molecules at lower cost

3 years ago

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Professor Ohyun Kwon and her research group have developed a groundbreaking method which utilizes oxygen and copper to efficiently break carbon-carbon bonds in hydrocarbons and convert them into valuable amine […]

Chemists use oxygen and copper “scissors” to cut carbon bonds and create new, valuable molecules at lower cost
November 28

Experimental brain-like computing system more accurate with custom algorithm

3 years ago

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A team of researchers, led by Professor James Gimzewski and alumnus Dr. Adam Stieg (Ph.D. ’07 Gimzewski), has created an experimental computing system physically modeled after the biological brain, which […]

Experimental brain-like computing system more accurate with custom algorithm
November 14

UCLA researchers develop solid-state thermal transistor for better heat management

3 years ago

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Professor Paul S. Weiss and current and former members of his group are part of a UCLA research team that has developed a first-of-its-kind thermal transistor capable of rapidly and […]

UCLA researchers develop solid-state thermal transistor for better heat management
November 2

UCLA-led team develops key improvement to Nobel Prize-winning technology

3 years ago

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Professor Todd Yeates and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Roger Castells-Graells led a team of biochemists in devising a solution that allows for the immobilization of small protein molecules during imaging, thereby […]

UCLA-led team develops key improvement to Nobel Prize-winning technology
September 27

Faculty in the News – Heather Maynard

3 years ago

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Professor Heather Maynard, UCLA’s Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Polymer Science, was interviewed by Drug Discovery News for her pioneering research on poly(trehalose methacrylate) (pTrMA). Her work leverages […]

Faculty in the News – Heather Maynard
September 1

Consumers who buy cannabis products containing HHCs could be getting less than they hoped for

3 years ago

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A new study by Professor Neil Garg and former Teacher-Scholar Dr. Daniel Nasrallah, now an assistant professor of chemistry at Roanoke College, is the first to explain how well HHCs, […]

Consumers who buy cannabis products containing HHCs could be getting less than they hoped for
August 15

Chemists develop new process for the production of ring-shaped molecules

3 years ago

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Professor Ken Houk and Cram Teacher Scholar Dr. Huiling Shao are part of an international team of researchers who have succeeded for the first time in using structural editing to […]

Chemists develop new process for the production of ring-shaped molecules
July 12

Bare-foot Ni(OH)2-clothed platinum-tetrapods enable more efficient green hydrogen production

3 years ago

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A collaborative research team led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group, Professor Anastassia N. Alexandrova’s group in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Professor Yu Huang’s group in the […]

Bare-foot Ni(OH)2-clothed platinum-tetrapods enable more efficient green hydrogen production
July 7