Changing fuel cell catalyst shape would dramatically increase efficiency, lower cost
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA and Caltech researchers develop method that would require only 1/50 as much platinum An international team led by researchers at UCLA and Caltech has demonstrated how altering the form of platinum nanoscale wires from...
The robot is at your service
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA engineering students built the robot concierge at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center Internationally renowned UCLA professor of engineering Dennis Hong gets excited about robots — downright giddy at...
Computers learn to recognize molecules that can enter cells
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Researchers' peptide discovery has broad implications for biomedicine A team of researchers from UCLA and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign originally set out to discover and design antimicrobial peptides —...
UCLA electrical engineering professor named an inaugural Moore Inventor Fellow
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Mona Jarrahi recognized for her work advancing imaging technology Mona Jarrahi, associate professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named one of five...
UCLA-led team opens new avenues to research on topological insulators
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The class of material, which is a conductor and insulator of electric current, could be used for ultra-low power computing Today’s computers and smartphones feel warm when they’re in use, because some of the electrical...
UCLA computer scientists develop data integrity method to prevent tampering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Technique is the electronic equivalent of a lockbox and uses only one-way communication How can two parties guarantee that their communications are not tampered with by an outside party? UCLA computer scientists have...
Hu named Air Force Young Investigator
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Yongjie Hu, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The three-year, $360,000-grant will support Hu’s...
New metamaterial paves way for terahertz technologies
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Work by UCLA-led engineers could dramatically improve imaging, sensing and communication applications A research team led by UCLA electrical engineers has developed an artificial composite material to control of...
DNA mapping tool helps scientists better understand how genes are regulated
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]FINDINGS Scientists have devised a powerful new tool for understanding how DNA controls gene activity in cells. The tool allows researchers to map at high resolution, across large swaths of a cell’s genome, which DNA...