2021
Researchers identify and clear efficiency hurdle for organic solar cells
2020
Chemistry professors develop an electrochemical method for extracting uranium and, potentially, other metal ions from solution
2019
Master of Glass
UC Santa Barbara’s in-house glassblower (our very own, Richard Bock) combines scientific precision with ancient art
2018
New insights into tau protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease from the Han group is published in PNAS. See The Current news article and journal article for more information.
Gui Bazan's research program is featured in the Advanced Materials Hall of Fame. Read the news highlight and review article.
Pettus group reports the biomimetic synthesis of microtubule inhibitor paecilospirone. See the Synlett article and accompanying news.
Study from the Han group shows that a key Alzheimer’s protein forms liquid droplets that favor pathological aggregation. See the PLoS Biology article and the news report in the Current. (Image credit: Peter Allen)
2016
Shedding light on a dark solution: new insights into the classic iodine-starch reaction from the Seshadri and Wudl groups published in Angewandte Chemie.
Click here for the article and report in The Current.
2015
New study led by the Butler group published in Science: How mussels stick to wet surfaces.
New advance in green chemistry published in Science by the Lipshutz group: inexpensive nanoparticles catalyze a C-C bond-forming reaction.