The Schwartz group’s research on hydrated electrons is featured on the cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
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Research by a UCLA team led by Professor Benjamin Schwartz and graduate student William Borrelli is featured on the front cover of this week’s Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, a […]
How UCLA scientists helped reimagine a forgotten battery design from Thomas Edison
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Research by a team led by Professor Richard Kaner and Dr. Maher El-Kady shows how 21st-century nanotechnology has finally enabled a clean-energy vision that Thomas Edison first proposed more than […]
Innovative proximity labeling platform illuminates how cholesterol interacts inside cells
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Cholesterol plays a central role in cell health, influencing membrane fluidity, curvature, and signaling. To maintain proper cholesterol levels, cells rely on tightly regulated transport systems that move cholesterol between […]
UCLA researchers develop mineral sunscreen that reduces white cast
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A research team led by Professor Paul Weiss and chemical biology Ph.D. candidate AJ Addae (P. Weiss/Caram groups) has developed a mineral sunscreen formulation that significantly reduces the white, chalky […]
Researchers discover a previously unknown bacterial component in kidney stone formation
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Professor Gerard Wong and bioengineering Ph.D. students William Schmidt and Rena Yang are part of a UCLA-led research team that has discovered that bacteria are present inside the most common […]
Organic chemists take-on more rule-breaking molecules
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In 2024, Professor Neil Garg’s lab, teaming up with Professor Ken Houk, violated Bredt’s rule, a 100-year-old rule stating that molecules cannot have a carbon-carbon double bond at the “bridgehead” position (the […]
Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty and alumni among the top 25 Bruinventors of the 21st century
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Inventions by six members of the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry community are featured in the Fall 2025, UCLA Magazine article “The Top 25 Bruinventions of the 21st Century (So Far).” […]
Kalli Kappel decodes the hidden architecture inside cells
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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 […]