Professor Jeffrey Zink has been selected to receive the 2017 SCALACS Tolman Medal.             The medal is awarded each year by the Southern California Section of […]

Professor Richard Kaner and postdoc Maher El-Kady’s articles on graphene supercapacitors are among the top most cited research articles during the past five years.  In order to put this into […]

UCLA chemistry professor Michael Jung helped develop Erleada, which was recently approved by the FDA for treating an especially lethal form of prostate cancer. Jung’s drug research was recently featured […]

The researchers have utilized microscopic splinter-like structures called “nanospears” for the targeted delivery of biomolecules straight to patient cells.  These magnetically guided nanostructures could enable gene therapies that are safer, […]

PhD student Dahee Jung leads team to develop a method to create linked networks of metal oxides that could have interesting catalytic or electronic properties. Jung, a 4th year chemistry […]

The Houk group has elucidated how a novel enzyme catalyzes a reaction that was heretofore known only in the lab and not known to happen in nature. They used computations […]

The team, co-led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, reported on the development of two-dimensional ‘superlattices’ which could lead to improvements in electronics. The study titled “Monolayer atomic crystal molecular superlattices” was published […]

Joan Valentine, the first female faculty member in UCLA’s Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, was recently featured in a video by her alma mater, Princeton University. Valentine was the first […]