May 3, 2018
Researchers in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California San Diego mixed together unlikely materials to create a new hybrid form of crystalline matter that could change the practice of materials science. The findings, published in “Nature,” present potential benefits to medicine and the pharmaceutical industry.
December 10, 2024
UC San Diego has ranked #10 in the nation for materials science and engineering, according to the 2024 ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS).
February 8, 2012
It’s a matchup worthy of a late-night cable movie: put a school of starving piranha and a 300-pound fish together, and who comes out the winner?
May 9, 2013
DARPA, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has awarded $6 million to a team of researchers to develop nanotechnology therapies for the treatment of traumatic brain injury and associated infections.
August 6, 2020
…new center for renewable materials on campus. Here, they align theory and practice to produce algae-based, commercial-quality polyurethane materials that give society a fighting chance at knocking out the perils of plastic pollution. “In many ways, there is no future other than this,” said Biological Sciences Professor Stephen Mayfield. “The…
October 17, 2023
Researchers at University of California San Diego have discovered a process in which liver cells share molecules in order to multiply under conditions that would ordinarily suppress cell proliferation. They also found evidence that this process occurs in various types of cancer cells.
August 2, 2022
Battery researchers and other engineers from UC San Diego, with collaboration from the LG Energy Solution, outline three categories of engineering challenges that must be solved in order to transition all-solid-state batteries from the laboratory toward large-scale industrial manufacturing.
October 2, 2014
…student engagement with the material and the instructors. And he also came to appreciate keenly just how many people, even those who are apparently successful and have advanced degrees, feel they have difficulties learning. “The ability to learn requires skills that are rarely taught in a systematic or deep way,”…
September 23, 2021
Engineers created a new type of battery that weaves two promising battery sub-fields into a single battery. The battery uses both a solid state electrolyte and an all-silicon anode, making it a silicon all-solid-state battery.
October 3, 2024
An award-winning UC San Diego electrical engineering class is now offered to Chula Vista high school students right at their own school, during their school day, in an effort to expand earlier access to engineering concepts and skills.
