UCLA researchers have developed a novel method for creating graphene nanoribbons which can be used to make better electronics. In a study published in October, researchers led by chemistry professors Yves Rubin, Richard Kaner, and Ken Houk developed a two-step synthesis to make graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). Graphene nanoribbons have unique electrical properties that allow them […]

Professor Louis Bouchard and alumna Julia Mack are part of UCLA team to find a protein which helps ward off inflammation. In a study published in November, researchers led by Professors Luisa Iruela-Arispe of UCLA Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology and physical chemist Louis Bouchard of UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry and UCLA Bioengineering, discovered several […]

UCLA chemist and neuroscientist Professor Anne Andrews has been elected Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP).   The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) is a professional organization of leading brain scientists. The principal functions of the College are research and education. Members are selected primarily on the basis of their original research contributions to the […]

UCLA researchers have developed a biochemical test for assessing concussions and other forms of brain injury. In a study published in August 2017, UCLA researchers led by Dr. Ina-Beate Wanner, an associate researcher in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and Dr. Joseph Loo, professor in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,(pictured […]

As a featured speaker at the 2017 SACNAS Diversity in STEM Conference, Dean Miguel García-Garibay spoke about his work with molecular machinery.  García-Garibay gave the lecture to thousands of students, faculty, and researchers at the 2017 SACNAS: The National Diversity in STEM Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 19-21, 2017. He spoke about how, with careful orchestration […]

Professor Paul Weiss group’s cover article in ACS Nano on etching silicon nanotubes is featured as “editor’s choice” in Science Magazine. In the original work, they report a robust and general strategy called multiple-patterning nanosphere lithography for the scalable and tunable fabrication of periodic 3D hierarchical nanostructures. The technique exploits the selected and repeated etching of […]

Three UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty are among the most influential scientists in their fields for 2017, as determined by Thomson Reuters. Those recognized were Prof. David Eisenberg for biochemistry and Prof. Xiangfeng Duan and Prof. Jeffrey Zink for chemistry.    The purpose of the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers List is to identify contemporary […]

Professor Neil Garg and members of his lab visited a local elementary school to teach children about forces using helium-filled balloons. At the outreach event at the Warner Avenue Elementary School on Monday, December 4th, the group demonstrated how helium-filled balloons can lift objects off the ground to counter gravity. The kindergartners at the event […]