The QS World University Rankings 2014 placed UCLA 10th in the subject of chemistry. The SJTU Academic Ranking of World Universities also released their 2014 rankings and placed UCLA 12th […]

Professor Richard Kaner’s research on graphene-based supercapacitors was featured on Nasdaq.com. Graphene, a nano-scale wonder material, is one of the hottest areas of materials science research. Discovered in 2004 by […]

Professor James Liao has been named to Taiwan’s Academia Sinica, the preeminent academic institution in the Republic of China. Liao was one of 18 new academicians and two new honorary […]

Professors Miguel Garcia-Garibay, Neil Garg, and Paul Weiss have been selected for the ACS 2015 National Awards. Arthur C. Cope Scholar AwardsProfessors Garcia-Garibay and Garg have been selected for the […]

Xiangfeng Duan and colleagues have set the stage for a watershed in mobile energy storage by using a special graphene material to significantly boost the energy density of electrochemical capacitors. […]

Professor Louis Bouchard and colleagues have developed nanodiamonds (ND) which can be used to perform fully correlated optical and electron microscopy. Invention: Universal Bio Diagnostic, Drug Delivery Device & Marker […]

A photo collage from the 2014 Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Commencement Ceremony is now available for viewing online. The 2014 UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Commencement Ceremony produced […]

Prof. Jim Gimzewski was recently featured on the radio program Pulse of the Planet (presented by the National Science Foundation), where he described the use of atomic force microscopes to listen to […]