An article on Professor Richard B. Kaner’s research was the cover story for Electronic Weekly for the week of April 10-16, 2013. The article for the cover story, UCLA graphene supercapacitors could revolutionise storage, can be read by visiting here.

On April 13th, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry welcomed thousands of future Bruins and their families for UCLA’s Annual ‘Bruin Day’ event.  The event was designed to provide prospective students with an opportunity to visit UCLA and find out more about academics and life on campus.   The Chemistry & Biochemistry booth was hosted by Denise Mantonya, Tim […]

A team led by Professor Carla Koehler have discovered a new agent that may be useful in strategies to remove pluripotent stem cells that fail-to-differentiate from their progeny, tissue-specific cells. From Examiner.com: UCLA scientists continue to make advances in stem cell research. A problem with the use of stem cells is the possibility of malignant […]

A new study by Professor James K. Gimzewski and collaborators suggests that the elasticity of physical matrix used for growing cardiomyocytes outside the body may be critical to the success of cardiac tissue engineering efforts. From ACN Newswire: Adult heart muscle is the least regenerative of human tissues. But embryonic cardiomyocytes (cardiac muscle cells) can […]

Professor Sarah Tolbert was part of a team that made a form of niobium oxide suitable for serving as a high-performance supercapacitor. The team of researchers led by professor of materials science and engineering, Bruce Dunn, said the discovery may lead to faster charging of devices. Other authors of the study included UCLA Engineering graduate […]

Graduate Student Jessica Wang (Kaner Group) won first place in the 2013 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting’s “Science as Art” competition for her electron micrograph entitled, “Polyaniline in Bloom”. You can view the rest of the winners at the MRS Science as Art webpage. Jessica Wang also won with the Americal Chemical Society (ACS)- Division […]

Professor Juli Feigon, along with researchers at UCLA and UC Berkeley, have for the first time ever, solved the puzzle of how the various components of an entire telomerase enzyme complex fit together and function in a three-dimensional structure. Continued from UCLA Newsroom: The creation of the first complete visual map of the telomerase enzyme, […]

Professor James K. Gimzewski is a member of a research team, under sponsorship of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), who have been working on a program called “physical intelligence.” His research team, consisting of scientists at Malibu-based HRL (formerly Hughes Research Laborary) and the University of California at Berkeley’s Freeman Laboratory for Nonlinear […]