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February 8, 2023 | The role of alkali metal cations in the alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction
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...
January 18, 2023 | Internship provides undergrads hands-on experience in start-up company environment
Starting this fall over a dozen undergraduate students were selected for a new internship program where they have been matched with a current start-up company in CNSI’s Magnify incubator for a hands-on experience lasting the academic school year. The internship...
January 9, 2023 | Freezing Offers Potential Low-Energy, Low-Cost Method for Purifying Saltwater
As global climate change continues to decrease access to potable water, engineers and scientists are exploring new salt-removal technologies to turn brackish and ocean water into drinking water for large populations. However, the most common desalination methods —...
January 9, 2023 | Wavelength-multiplexed Diffractive Optical Processor Computes Hundreds of Linear Transformations in Parallel
Computing using light can potentially provide lower latency and reduced power consumption, benefiting from the parallelism that optical systems have. For example, a single optical processor can execute many distinct computational tasks simultaneously, such as the...
January 4, 2023 | Tiny implantable device designed by UCLA scientists helps kill cancer
Now, an interdisciplinary UCLA research team reports encouraging results in laboratory studies testing a tiny implantable device they call a SymphNode, which is designed to keep regulatory T cells in check only in the area around a tumor while summoning and strengthening tumor-fighting cells. The device was shown to drive tumors into remission, eliminate metastasis, prevent the growth of new tumors and result in longer survival in mice.
January 4, 2023 | New Flexible Polymer Hydrogel Electrode Makes for Improved Bioelectronics
UCLA materials engineers designed a hydrogel electrode that could help advance bioelectronics that require direct tissue contact for health monitoring and therapies, such as pacemakers or high-sensitivity neural probes used to diagnose diseases including Alzheimer’s...
December 14, 2022 | UCLA-led research could lead to more durable solar cells
An international research collaboration led by UCLA has developed a way to use perovskite in solar cells while protecting it from the conditions that cause it to deteriorate. In a study published in Nature Materials, the scientists added small quantities of ions — electrically charged atoms — of a metal called neodymium directly to perovskite.
December 13, 2022 | Go ahead: Tell Gaurav Sant his ideas won’t work
With an eye toward providing remedies for climate change, he and his colleagues take approaches to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere that are considered unlikely by some. Several of his projects have emerged from UCLA’s labs to spawn startups that are bringing new technologies into the marketplace, where they can make a difference in people’s lives.
December 12, 2022 | UCLA Electrical Engineering Professor Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Kang Wang, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been named a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) fellow, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors. [xyz-ips...
December 8, 2022 | 3D-printed decoder, AI-enabled image compression could enable higher-res displays
A UCLA team has developed a technology for projecting high-resolution computer-generated images using one-sixteenth the number of pixels contained in their source images. The system compresses images based on an artificial intelligence algorithm, and then decodes them using an optical decoder — a thin, translucent sheet of plastic produced using a 3D printer — that is designed to interact with light in a specific way as part of the same algorithm.
December 7, 2022 | Prineha Narang named U.S. Science Envoy by State Department
Prineha Narang, UCLA professor in Physical Sciences and member of the California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA, is one of seven U.S. researchers who’ve been named 2023 U.S. Science Envoys by the Department of State.
December 7, 2022 | Wearable sensor could guide precision drug dosing
Now, a UCLA-led research team has developed a wearable patch that uses inexpensive microneedles to analyze the fluid between cells less than a millimeter underneath the skin and continuously record concentrations of medicine in the body. The technology could be a step toward improving doctors’ ability to administer precise medication doses.