ACS Henry H. Storch Award in Energy Chemistry

4 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Sarah Tolbert has been awarded the Henry H Storch Award in Energy Chemistry by the Energy and Fuels Division of the American Chemical Society.   The prestigious award recognizes distinguished […]

ACS Henry H. Storch Award in Energy Chemistry
September 16

Aggregate “Nanoscience: Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Paul S. Weiss”

4 years ago

  • Faculty

Special Issue of the journal Aggregate is dedicated to Professor Paul Weiss in recognition of his numerous contributions to nanoscience.  The Special Issue, published on August 24, 2022, includes an […]

September 16

Womanium Quantum Computing and Entrepreneurship Program

4 years ago

  • Graduate
  • Student

PhD students Lajoyce Mboning (Bouchard group) and Ashley Shin (Caram group) were part of UCLA team to win two hackathon prizes at the Womanium Quantum Computing and Entrepreneurship Program.  Students […]

Womanium Quantum Computing and Entrepreneurship Program
September 16

Professor Richard Kaner and alum Assistant Researcher Maher El-Kady (PhD ’13) are featured in a C&EN article about battery start-ups

4 years ago

  • Faculty

Kaner and El-Kady formed their company, Nanotech Energy, in 2014 with physician-entrepreneur Dr. Jack Kavanaugh, with the goal of moving their cutting-edge research on graphene-based energy storage devices from the […]

Professor Richard Kaner and alum Assistant Researcher Maher El-Kady (PhD ’13) are featured in a C&EN article about battery start-ups
September 16

New center to explore new technologies for energy conversion and carbon capture

4 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova is part of the newly funded Energy Frontier Research Center, named Center for Closing the Carbon Cycle (4C).   The Center for Closing the Carbon Cycle, or “4C” […]

New center to explore new technologies for energy conversion and carbon capture
September 13

Teacher-Scholar News

4 years ago

  • Alumni & Friends
  • Faculty

We are pleased to welcome alumna Mackenzie Anderson (BS ’17, MS ’19, PhD ’22, Kaner group) as the department’s new 2022-25 Willard F Libby Teacher-Scholar. Our Teacher-Scholar program allows postdoctoral […]

Teacher-Scholar News
September 9

$1.8 million National Science Foundation award establishes new NSF Center for Advanced Molecular Architectures for Quantum Information Science

4 years ago

Led by Professor Anastassia Alexandrova, the new center’s research team will be working in a new branch of chemistry involving the creation of molecules that act as qubits. Alexandrova will […]

$1.8 million National Science Foundation award establishes new NSF Center for Advanced Molecular Architectures for Quantum Information Science
September 8

CNSI Noble Fund researchers work to accelerate understanding of human cell interactions

4 years ago

In a new video, Professor Keriann Backus explains her Nobel Fund project aiming to develop a new method for mapping the protein interactions that are fundamental to almost every process […]

CNSI Noble Fund researchers work to accelerate understanding of human cell interactions
September 1