Professor Philippe Sautet co-leads a team of UCLA researchers whose study, published in Nature Catalysis, unveils atomic-scale details of catalysts’ active sites, enhancing the efficiency of chemical reactions. From California […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan is co-leader of a team of UCLA researchers who have developed a unique material that retains superconducting properties under high magnetic fields, showing potential for advancing quantum […]

On May 14, 2024, 38 undergraduate students presented research posters at the first annual SMACS and UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Undergraduate Poster Session, hosted jointly by the Student Members of […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]