Exciting collaborative effort from the Duan and Caram labs unlocked the secrets approaching the fundamental performance limit of 2D semiconductor diodes for the first time, providing critical design principles for electronic devices.   Diodes conduct electricity, and electricity is everywhere. Whether it is the solar panels that run our houses, or a camera and TV that […]

Their study showed that bacterium communicate using chemical signals analagous to radio signals in order to help cells join together and form communities. Professor Gerard Wong, a member of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and the UCLA Department of Bioengineering, is the study’s senior author, and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Calvin Lee (Ph.D. ’20, […]

The newly installed system supports research instruments requiring liquid helium, a nonrenewable resource that has recently become less commercially available.  Superconducting magnets are critical components of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and some mass spectrometry instruments that are used to determine the structures of molecules, from small drug molecules to large proteins. Without a constant supply […]

Professor Chong Liu and collaborators receive a $55K 2021 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award. Professor Chong Liu and collaborators Professor Andrea Hicks, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin – Madison and Professor Haotian Wang, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, received the award for their project titled “CO2 Conversion to Bioplastics via Electrochemical-Bio Synthesis”. This […]

Professor Ellen Sletten and her former PhD student Rachael Day are featured in article about the “Photonbooth” they created as an outreach for local schools. A UCLA faculty member since 2015, Professor Ellen Sletten’s group takes a multidisciplinary approach towards the creation of enhanced nanotherapeutics, shortwave infrared diagnostics, and new chemical tools to study living systems. […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty, postdocs, grad students, undergrads, and alums helped make Exploring Your Universe on November 7, 2021, a huge success. For the second year, the festival was offered online – giving visitors from all over the world the opportunity to take part in guided, do-it-yourself science experiments while engaging with scientists on a […]

Professor Michael Jung has been awarded the 2022 IUPAC-Richter Prize in recognition of his research, which has afforded new drugs for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer. The IUPAC-Richter prize is awarded to an internationally recognized scientist, preferably a medicinal chemist, whose activities or published accounts have made an outstanding contribution to the practice of […]

We are sad to report that alumnus Dale Steichen  (PhD ’80, Foote group) passed away on December 22, 2021, at the age of 67. A longtime researcher and scientist within the cleaning product industry, Dr. Dale Steichen earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the California State College Stanislaus in 1976. He then earned his […]