Team reported a single-atom decoration approach to greatly boost the platinum nanocatalysts for efficient electrical to chemical energy conversion or vice versa. The study titled “Single-atom tailoring of platinum nanocatalysts […]

Thanks to generous support from alumni and friends, we are transforming our former library into innovative space, enhancing the UCLA experience for thousands of Bruins. If you have been on […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan has been named one of 31 National Finalists for the 2019 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. Chosen from a pool of 343 nominated promising scientific researchers […]

Professor Keriann Backus has been selected as a 2019 Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Backus will use her Beckman funding to develop new approaches to […]

Professor Michael Jung and collaborators have discovered a new way to activate the stem cells in hair follicles that are responsible for hair growth. A leader in the field of […]

Professor Neil Garg has been named the next Chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry effective July 1, 2019. In his announcement of the appointment Dean of Physical […]

PhD student Ha Seong Kim and Professor Thomas Mason have substantially refined diffusing wave microrheology of highly scattering concentrated dispersions. When illuminated with white light, many soft materials, such as […]

Leading biophysicist and chemist Professor Ken Dill (Stony Brook University) gave the 2019 Daniel Kivelson Lecture on May 20, 2019. Professor Ken A. Dill is best known for his work […]