Thorium film could replace crystals in atomic clocks of the near future

1 year ago

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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. […]

Thorium film could replace crystals in atomic clocks of the near future
January 23

Plastic supercapacitors could solve energy storage problems

1 year ago

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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, […]

Plastic supercapacitors could solve energy storage problems
January 21

Houk-Schmeing Novel Mechanism of Peptide Formation In NRPSs

2 years ago

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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 […]

Houk-Schmeing Novel Mechanism of Peptide Formation In NRPSs
December 12

Origin of Life Favors One ‘Hand’ of Chemical Building Blocks?

2 years ago

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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 […]

Origin of Life Favors One ‘Hand’ of Chemical Building Blocks?
November 25

Layered Hybrid Superlattices: A New Frontier in Designing Quantum Materials by Marrying Layered Crystals with Versatile Chemical Molecules

2 years ago

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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 […]

Layered Hybrid Superlattices: A New Frontier in Designing Quantum Materials by Marrying Layered Crystals with Versatile Chemical Molecules
November 21

2024 UCLA Future of Food Fellow

2 years ago

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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 […]

2024 UCLA Future of Food Fellow
November 15

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 […]

Organic chemists take on “Bredt’s Rule” 100 years later
November 1

Faculty in the News

2 years ago

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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 […]

Faculty in the News
October 29