By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Currently, some 20 percent of the world's industrial production is based on catalysts — molecules that can quicken the pace of chemical reactions by factors of billions. Oil, pharmaceuticals,...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin With leading aerospace companies, research labs and testing grounds run by NASA and the Air Force, a workhorse space launch facility, and much more, Southern California’s aerospace community is unmatched in...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout FINDINGS: Many antimicrobial peptides in our immune system kill bacteria by punching holes in their membranes. Scientists have been researching antimicrobial peptides for more than 30 years, and...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout William W-G. Yeh, distinguished professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the inaugural holder of the...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Faculty at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science are working across several areas to make energy cleaner, renewable, and more efficient. This research ranges from the large system-scales of the...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Altering microbe's metabolism leads to big jump in n-butanol production By Wileen Wong Kromhout Researchers at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a way to produce normal butanol —...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Paul Baran MS ’59, a distinguished engineer, inventor and entrepreneur whose best-known invention of packet-switching laid the technological foundation for the Internet, has died. He was 84. Baran received his bachelor’s...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA nanotech research mimics enzymes in directing chemical reactions By Mike Rodewald Good chemists are passive-aggressive — they manipulate molecules without actually touching them. In a feat of manipulating substances...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Two types of raw materials are currently used for biorefining and biofuel production: carbohydrates and lipids. Biofuels like ethanol are derived from carbohydrate raw materials such as sugars and lignocellulose, while...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Claudia Luther UCLA, one of the most prolific creators of new startup companies that help grow the economy of the region, state and nation, this year has already seen a major startup go out into the commercial market....
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin The International Space Station is set to receive its first UCLA-led research project when the Space Shuttle Discovery delivers a new payload of scientific experiments and supplies to the orbiting station....
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout In recent years, topological insulators have become one of the hottest topics in physics. These new materials act as both insulators and conductors, with their interior preventing the flow of...