Thorium film could replace crystals in atomic clocks of the near future
1 year ago
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- Research
Professor Anastassia Alexandrova is part of a team of UCLA physicists who have developed a new film that requires much less of the rare thorium-229 and is significantly less radioactive. […]
Plastic supercapacitors could solve energy storage problems
1 year ago
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- Research
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, […]
Houk-Schmeing Novel Mechanism of Peptide Formation In NRPSs
2 years ago
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- Faculty
- Research
Professor Ken Houk has collaborated with the Professor Martin Schmeing (McGill University) group to reveal a novel mechanism for peptide biosynthesis. In an accelerated publication in Nature, the Schmeing group’s […]
Origin of Life Favors One ‘Hand’ of Chemical Building Blocks?
2 years ago
- Faculty
- Recent Research
- Research
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 […]
Layered Hybrid Superlattices: A New Frontier in Designing Quantum Materials by Marrying Layered Crystals with Versatile Chemical Molecules
2 years ago
- Awards, Grants, & Recognition
- Research
A new paper titled “Layered hybrid superlattices as designable quantum solids” by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, postdoctoral researcher Dr. Zhong Wan and co-authors, recently published in Nature, introduces an exciting advancement […]
2024 UCLA Future of Food Fellow
2 years ago
- Awards, Grants, & Recognition
- Education
- Research
- Student
Third-year graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Erika López-Lara (P. Weiss group) has been accepted into the new UCLA Science & Food Future of Food Fellows Program. The inaugural UCLA Future […]
Organic chemists take on “Bredt’s Rule” 100 years later
2 years 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 […]
Faculty in the News
2 years ago
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- Faculty
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Adjunct professor of chemistry, longtime fire fighter, and UCLA alumnus Derek Urwin (B.S. ’03 Math, M.S. ’17, Ph.D. ’22 Chemistry, Alexandrova group) is featured in a UC Newsroom article about […]