Professor Abigail Doyle is co-PI of the NSF Center for Computer Aided Synthesis (C-CAS), which will use machine learning to accelerate the synthesis of molecules. The Doyle lab is interested in building tools at the interface of data science and chemistry to enable the development of new and improved chemical reactions and catalysts more quickly […]

In a new video, Professor Yves Rubin and UCLA collaborators explain their Nobel Fund project to develop a zero-carbon foot print process for generating hydrogen for energy Rubin and collaborators from UCLA Engineering, Professors Tim Fisher and Michell Spearrin, are developing a zero–carbon footprint process for generating hydrogen for energy. The team’s strategy is to use […]

Professor Ken Houk is part of a team to develop new techniques that enable unprecedented versatility in design of drug molecules. The landmark achievement, reported August 9, 2022, in Nature, reflects a powerful new approach that generally offers much easier and more flexible molecular design, enabling chemists to synthesize innumerable chemical products – including potential blockbuster […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan and members of his group are part of a team led by UCLA researchers to devise a method for predicting performance of catalysts in fuel cells. Platinum is the best catalyst for hydrogen fuel cells, but its rarity makes it expensive. This new method quickly identifies which alloys — combinations of platinum […]

Popular chemistry professor and alum Hung V Pham (PhD ’15 Houk group) receives the department’s 2022 Hanson-Dow Award for Excellence in Teaching.   The Hanson-Dow Award for Excellence in Teaching was established in 1986 as a means to celebrate outstanding teaching within the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. The award recognizes our ladder and non-ladder faculty […]

Biochemist Professor Margot Quinlan receives the department’s 2022 Hanson-Dow Award for Excellence in Teaching.   The Hanson-Dow Award for Excellence in Teaching was established in 1986 as a means to celebrate outstanding teaching within the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. The award recognizes our ladder and non-ladder faculty members for their efforts in classrooms and laboratories, […]

Professors Anastassia Alexandrova and Justin Caram are part of a UCLA-led team that has developed a fundamentally new strategy for building quantum computers.  While the current state of the art employs circuits, semiconductors and other tools of electrical engineering, the team has produced a game plan based in chemists’ ability to custom-design atomic building blocks […]

A chiral molecular intercalation superlattice (CMIS) designed by Duan’s group achieves a remarkable spin polarization ratio of more than 60%, among the highest selectivity achieved in molecular spin tunneling junctions. Chirality and chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) Chirality describes a molecule that can’t be superimposed on its own mirror image. Two geometrically different chiral molecules of […]