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Recent Energy News
June 21, 2022 | UCLA Engineering Professor Yuzhang Li Receives DOE Early Career Research Award for New Techniques to Study Batteries
Yuzhang Li, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received an Early Career Research Award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The award will support his research on discovering the...
June 16, 2022 | UCLA Engineers Create Single-Step, All-in-One 3D Printing Method to Make Robotic Materials
A team of UCLA engineers and their colleagues have developed a new design strategy and 3D printing technique to build robots in one single step. A study that outlined the advance, along with the construction and demonstration of an assortment of tiny robots that walk,...
June 16, 2022 | Chemistry & Biochemistry Annual Report 2022 highlights several CNSI members
UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry recently highlighted the remarkable research and faculty in their department, including the work of several CNSI members. The annual report provides a snapshot of the research innovations and remarkable individuals who are impacting the...
May 27, 2022 | All-optical computation of a group of transformations using a polarization-encoded diffractive network
In a recent study published in Light: Science and Applications, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have demonstrated a polarization-encoded diffractive optical processor to enable high-speed, low-power computation of multiple linear...
May 25, 2022 | Lactation Lab receives FDA Breakthrough Device designation for breast-milk-testing device that allows mothers to test for key nutritional elements in their milk
This first-of-its-kind breast-milk(point of care)-test allows mothers to test for key macronutrients (fat, protein, carbohydrates and adjust their nutritional intake accordingly. The test was developed for use in the NICU, hospital clinics, milk banks and home use.
May 20, 2022 | All-optical Phase Recovery and Quantitative Phase Imaging Performed Instantly Without a Computer
In a new research paper published in Advanced Optical Materials, a team of optical engineers, led by Professor Aydogan Ozcan from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at the University of California, Los...
May 19, 2022 | Scientists devise method to prevent deadly hospital infections without antibiotics
A hospital or medical clinic might be the last place you’d expect to pick up a nasty infection, but approximately 1.7 million Americans do each year, resulting in nearly 100,000 deaths from infection-related complications and roughly $30 billion in direct medical...
May 4, 2022 | UCLA Engineers Develop Phage Therapy to Kill Bacteria
Bacterial infections are becoming increasingly difficult to treat due to antibiotic resistance built up by bacteria as they evolve and adapt to medication. UCLA biomolecular engineers and their colleagues are developing an alternative therapy to treat wound infections...
May 3, 2022 | UCLA researchers develop non-destructive image processing method for advanced cancer research
A team led by Professor Shimon Weiss and former PhD student Arkaprabha Basu has developed an image processing technique, SPOCC, which quantifies cytoskeletal properties using microscopic images. UCLA researchers develop non-destructive...