UCLA Physics and Astronomy Assistant Professor Christopher Gutiérrez wins a DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program award for his proposal to image how charge density waves move through quantum materials.
Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA published a step-by-step framework for determining the three-dimensional positions and elemental identities of atoms in amorphous materials.
More than half of the “city killer” asteroids that might threaten Earth remain undiscovered. With an infrared eye, NASA’s NEO Surveyor aims to find them
Changing Key and Chemistry
In “Changing Key and Chemistry,” a ten-minute film from Chemistry Shorts®, UCLA Professor Dr. Neil Garg shows us that organic chemistry can be understood much like music — one key, one scale, and one step at a time. Each atom in a molecule is like a note in a melody: once you learn the basic components, you can put them together in infinite combinations from the simplest molecules to the most complicated symphonies.
Arismel Tena Meza is graduating with a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and an education that goes beyond the lab
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