Discovery by UCLA research team, led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, could lead to a new class of materials for making LEDs. The study titled “Electric-field-induced strong enhancement of electroluminescence in multilayer molybdenum disulfide” was published in a recent issue of the journal Nature Communications. The research team includes current and former members of Prof. Duan’s […]

Brainstorming by some of the world’s top plant scientists, including two from UCLA, results in the ideas described in paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper titled “Redesigning Photosynthesis to Sustainably Meet Global Food and Bioenergy Demand” was published in the July 14th issue of PNAS. The […]

Liana Hie, who will soon begin her fifth year of graduate studies, has been chosen to receive a 2015-2016 Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Graduate Fellowship. Fellowship awardees, who receive a $35,000 award, are chosen not only based on their academic performance and research achievements, but also for their demonstrated potential for significant future accomplishments. The fellowship […]

Organic chemistry professor turns a ‘feared’ subject into one that inspires students. UCLA Newsroom (Stuart Wolpert): Neil Garg admits that the mere mention of organic chemistry tends to strike fear in the hearts of undergraduates — and even medical doctors he meets often say it was their least favorite college class. So how has the […]

The department has been awarded a substantial grant to fund a UCOP-HBCU initiative that will bring talented students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to the department over the summer. For three years, starting July 2016, we will collaborate with Howard University, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta University to invite six students each summer (two […]

Professor Jeff Zink and colleagues’ publication of “Mesoporous silica nanoparticle delivery of chemically modified siRNA against TWIST1 leads to reduced tumor burden”, was recently featured by the UCLA Newsroom.  UCLA Newsroom (By Shaun Mason): When scientists develop cancer therapies, they target the features that make the disease deadly: tumor growth, metastasis, recurrence and drug resistance. […]

Professor James Gimzewski was recently featued on the cover of the latest issue of Convergence, a magazine published by the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), Japan. Atomic Switch Networks (ASN) are biologically inspired, self-organizing devices comprising of massively interconnected networks. MANA Satellite Director at UCLA, Professor James Gimzewski talks about how he discovered synaptic […]

Professor Hosea Nelson has been named to the inaugural class of “C&EN’s Talented 12”, which highlights path-paving young researchers and entrepreneurs who are using chemistry to solve global problems. Hosea Nelson – The Bioactives Builder Organic chemist is finding new synthetic routes to Mother Nature’s molecules Hosea M. Nelson never planned on becoming a scientist. […]