Breakthrough in technique development enables non-invasive depth profiling of emerging materials for spintronics. Update – the news of this research was recently reported in UCLA Newsroom. The seach for novel materials that drive innovation in the semiconductor industry has led to the emergence of new research directions. Topological insulators (TIs) form a class of low […]

This summer, four students from two of the best Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) will contribute to UCLA research projects.  Thomas Iylile, Chelsea Nnebe, and Isaac Wilkins from Howard University (Washington, DC) and Nneze Akwiwu from Spelman College (Atlanta, GA) will spend part of their summer working in Chemistry and Biochemistry labs learning about […]

Professor Thomas Mason & former grad student Michael Fryd (PhD Chemistry ’12), Staff Research Chemist, SC Johnson, are co-inventors on a newly issued patent. The patent is titled “Process and System for Reducing Sizes of Emulsion Droplets and Emulsions Having Reduced Droplet Sizes”, US Patent #9000053.  “This is an exciting technology because it enables the […]

Graduate student Rafal Dziedzic (Spokoyny lab) selected for the AFRL 2015 Space Scholars Program to work on the development of devices for space vehicles.  The 1st year Ph.D. student in Prof. Alex Spokoyny’s group will spend the summer doing research as a paid intern at New Mexico’s Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque.   The […]

Chair and Professor Miguel Garcia-Garibay was awarded the 2015 Faculty-Staff Partnership Award at the Staff Assembly Recognition Awards ceremony. The awards ceremony took place on Tuesday, June 23rd, at the UCLA Faculty Center and was attended by several staff members of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department. “Receiving the Faculty/Staff Partnership Award helped me realize some […]

UCLA research team’s development of new storage technology that is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks was recently featured in Science. The research team, led by Prof. Sarah Tolbert, includes several members of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry: graduate students Rachel Huber & Amy Ferreira (Tolbert Group), Robert Thompson […]

Occidental College’s magazine features UCLA alumnus Professor Phoebe Dea (BS Chemistry ’67) as she prepares to retire from the college after 22 years.  In 1964, Prof. Dea was the first undergraduate to join the lab of Professor Emeritus Chuck Knobler. She received her Ph.D. at California Institute of Technology and joined Occidental College in 1993 […]

Professor Emeritus Mostafa El-Sayed has been named recipient of the 2016 Priestley Medal, the highest honor conferred by the American Chemical Society (ACS). Prof. El-Sayed is being recognized by ACS for his pioneering research on nanomaterials and his years of service to ACS, including his 24 years as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Physical Chemistry. […]