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August 2, 2023 | From sea monkeys to shelf-stable insulin
It’s not every day that a gag gift at a holiday party sparks a new line of research, but that turned out to be the case for Heather Maynard, a polymer scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). As she watched little shrimp-like sea monkeys emerge...
August 2, 2023 | True shape of lithium revealed for the first time in UCLA research
A study by members of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA reveals a fundamental discovery that could lead to safer lithium-metal batteries that outperform today’s lithium-ion batteries. The research was published today in the journal Nature.
Metallic lithium reacts so easily with chemicals that, under normal conditions, corrosion forms almost immediately while the metal is being laid down on a surface such as an electrode.
July 22, 2023 | Diffractive networks enable quantitative phase imaging (QPI) through random diffusers
In a recent paper published in Light: Advanced Manufacturing, a research team led by Professor Aydogan Ozcan from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) reported a new methodology for quantitative phase...
July 18, 2023 | VOA News Segment: Scientists Develop Device Stimulating Immune Response to Fight Cancer
Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles have come up with a device that may one day be an alternative to chemotherapy for treating cancer. Genia Dulot has the report.
July 18, 2023 | UCLA Nanomaterials Engineer Wins Global Award for Innovation in Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Yu Huang, the Traugott and Dorothea Frederking Professor of Engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been awarded the 2023 Eni Energy Transition Award designed to honor the best innovation for decarbonizing the energy system. Established in 2008 by...
July 14, 2023 | Keriann Backus Receives 2023 Ono Breakthrough Science Initiative Award
Professor Keriann Backus has been named a recipient of the 2023 Breakthrough Science Initiative Award from the Ono Pharma Foundation to support her research on chemoproteogenomic approaches to guide immunomodulatory therapeutics. ...
July 7, 2023 | Bare-foot Ni(OH)2-clothed platinum-tetrapods enable more efficient green hydrogen production
A collaborative research team led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group, Professor Anastassia N. Alexandrova’s group in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Professor Yu Huang’s group in the UCLA Department of Materials Science and Engineering has...
July 6, 2023 | An exceptional partnership: How CNSI’s Magnify Internship Program is helping UCLA students “Thrive”
Last year funding from the state of California was provided to the California Institutes for Science& Innovation, including the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, known at CNSI, to create workforce development programs focused on providing necessary...
June 23, 2023 | New rapid viral plaque detection system, aided by deep learning and holographic imaging, can help accelerate vaccine and drug development
In a new paper published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, a team of scientists led by Professor Aydogan Ozcan from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCLA and an associate director of the California NanoSystems Institute, developed a rapid, stain-free, and automated viral plaque detection system enabled by holography and deep learning.
June 13, 2023 | UCLA Computer Scientist Receives Major International Semiconductor Award
A member of the UCLA faculty since 1990, Cong was selected to receive the award at the May 8 event in Tel Aviv for his groundbreaking research and development that “revolutionized electronic design automation and FPGA [field-programmable gate array] design methods, for co-founding several chip design related companies, and for teaching hundreds of UCLA students, many of them who now hold influential roles in the semiconductor industry.”
June 12, 2023 | Ready, Set … Accelerate!
UCLA has a long history of nurturing business prospects generated by both students and faculty. But the rise of the incubators is a more engineered process. It was sparked in 2007, when Chancellor Gene Block and Governor Gray Davis agreed to promote closer links...
June 5, 2023 | Professor Anne Andrews and graduate student Noelle Mitchell co-author an impactful new paper published in Science
The seven-year research collaboration with researchers at Columbia University marks an important step in a long-awaited aptamer revolution. One cold day in October 2016, Anne Andrews, UCLA professor of chemistry & biochemistry and psychiatry, found herself in Jyväskylä, Finland…