UCLA Materials Scientist and Fuel Cell Catalyst Innovator Yu Huang Receives 2025 Global Energy Prize
Jul 9, 2025 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Yu Huang, a professor of materials science and engineering and holder of the Traugott and Dorothea Frederking Endowed Chair at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been awarded a 2025 Global Energy Prize for her pioneering work...
UCLA Materials Scientist Daniel Schwalbe-Koda Wins Second Collaborative AI Innovation Award
UCLA Samueli Newsroom For two years in a row, Daniel Schwalbe-Koda, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received an award from the Scialog program for collaborative research into...
The World’s Largest 3D-Printed Neighborhood Is Here
Photographer: Jordan Vonderhaar for Bloomberg Green By Todd Woody If it can scale, the 3D-printing process promises to deliver energy-efficient and climate-resilient homes that can be built faster, in novel designs and with minimal construction waste....
UCLA Engineers Design Solar Roofs to Harvest Energy for Greenhouses
Yang Yang Laboratory/UCLA A miniature greenhouse prototype with its roof built of semi-transparent solar cells invented by UCLA materials scientists that resulted in better plant growth than a traditional greenhouse Advance can simultaneously benefit...
UCLA Team Develops Ultrathin Films for Stretchable and Sturdy Bioelectronic Membranes
The layered patchwork design of van der Waals thin films enables the membrane to stretch and flex over irregular geometries. (Yan et al./UCLA) The highly adaptable materials could lead to new classes of wearable devices, diagnostic sensors and...
Sweating the small stuff: Smartwatch developed at UCLA measures key stress hormone
Image Courtesy of Yichao Zhao and Zhaoqing Wang/UCLA Cortisol is well-suited for measurement through wearable devices, according to study co-author Sam Emaminejad, because its concentration levels in sweat are similar to its circulating levels. The human body responds...
UCLA Team Harnesses Machine Learning Imaging Technology for Materials Design
Materials scientists at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have developed a new way to optimize the design of complex optical materials by using the same machine-learning technique that creates deceptive imagery known as “deepfakes.”
3D Printed Carbon Tube-in-Tube Structures Garnered the Cover of Nature Materials
A group of materials scientists, chemists, and modelers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of Groningen (Netherland), and UCLA (Prof. Morris Wang) have created a new class of ultralight and stiff carbon tube-in-tube structures via a 3D printing technique called direct laser writing – two photon polymerization (DLW-TPP).
Materials Scientist Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award to Advance Cooling Technologies
Aaswath Raman, a UCLA assistant professor of materials science and engineering, has received a 2021 Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense.