Nanotech Energy, the company co-founded by Professor Richard Kaner, is named CES 2022 Innovation Award Winner as the only producer of non-flammable, graphene-based batteries.   The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. As part of the Technical and Environmental Sciences class, Kaner will contribute his research and expertise on conducting […]

Professor Richard Kaner is elected as a 2021 NAI Fellow by the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. According to the NAI announcement, […]

Graduate student Yuto Katsuyama (Kaner group) wins Poster Presentation Award at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s (RSC) 4th Organic Battery Days 2021. At the RSC international conference on organic batteries […]

Four UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2021 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations. Those […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been selected to receive the Qian Baojun Fiber Award (Distinguished Achievement) for his “pioneering work of conducting organic fibers especially conducting polyaniline nanofibers.” Kaner received the […]

Professor Richard Kaner wins the ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the science or technology of plastics, coatings, polymer composites, adhesives, and related […]

Undergraduate researcher Samantha “Sam” Vi-Tang (Kaner group) is one of two UCLA students selected as 2021-2022 Beckman Scholars.   The 2021-22 Beckman Research Scholarship at UCLA is awarded to outstanding undergraduate […]