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 […]

Jeffrey Vinokur, a first year biochemistry graduate student, will be headlining the Nebraska Science Festival on April 13, 2013 at the Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. Vinokur has appeared on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet, and a variety other other TV news shows.  Most recently, he was interviewed by the University of […]

Professors Paul Weiss and Anne Andrews were among a group of UCLA guests invited to the White House on April 2 for President Obama’s introduction of the BRAIN Initiative. BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative will fund research on new ways to treat, cure and prevent various brain disorders, such as Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, schizophrenia, and […]

Three graduate students in Chemistry and Biochemistry received the 2013 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowships, and five graduate students received Honorable Mentions, in recognition of their academic achievement. Awardees included Michael Corsello (Neil Garg group), Brian McVerry (Richard Kaner group), and Nicholas Weires (Neil Garg group). Honorable Mentions included Robert Boutelle (Daniel Neuhauser group […]

Slate.com has covered research by Professor Richard Kaner and graduate student Maher El-Kady in the section, “Alternative Energy: Which technologies will power the future?” Slate.com:  Unexpectedly Amazing Carbon-Based Energy Form: A lab “accident” may solve your annoying battery problems Batteries are terrible. Compared to many other methods of storing energy, especially fossil fuels, batteries aren’t […]