Recent News
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Ric gave a fun public lecture in Exploring Your Universe 2022!
On Nov. 6 2022, UCLA held its annual science fair event, Exploring Your Universe, with a record-breaking 12,000 attendees.
Ric Kaner gave a talk titled “Fun with Plastics!” with polymers with a lot of fun experiments.
And group member, Sophia Uemura, was on the organizing team for the event.
Visit EYU 2022 website for more information.
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Our new bacterial-resistant coating for medical devices is featured in UCLA’s student-run newspaper the Daily Bruin.
Professor Richard Kaner’s new bacterial resistant coating for medical devices is featured in UCLA’s student-run newspaper, the Daily Bruin. Kaner group alumni Brian McVerry (Ph.D. ’16) and Ethan Rao (B.S. Biochemistry ’16) helped to develop the coating that is transforming the lives of patients who are required to use implantable medical devices on a long-time basis.
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Congratulations to Dr. Maher El-Kady chosen as one of this year’s C&EN’s Talented 12!
Congratulations to Maher!
Here is the article: https://cen.acs.org/materials/energy-storage/Maher-El-Kady/100/i25
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Congratulations to Dr. Cheng-Wei for receiving the department’s 2022 Postdoctoral Research Awards!
Congratulations to Dr. Cheng-Wei Lin for receiving the 2022 Chemistry & Biochemistry Postdoctoral Award at our annual departmental awards ceremony on May 13, 2022.
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Mackenzie and Shanlin graduate!
Congratulations to Mackenzie and Shanlin! Mackenzie will be the William F. Libby Teacher-Scholar at UCLA, and Shanlin will work at Applied Materials.
Former graduate students, Wai and Lisa, also attended the commencement ceremony because they couldn’t due to COVID!
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Our work on 3D-printed Carbon Lattices for Sodium-ion Batteries is now published in small, Wiley!
Congratulations to Yuto!
Title: A 3D-Printed, Freestanding Carbon Lattice for Sodium Ion Batteries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202202277
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Our work on Superhard Materials is now published in Chem. Mater., ACS!
Congratulations to Lisa and Shanlin!
Title: Enhanced Hardening Effects on Molybdenum-Doped WB2 and WB2–SiC/B4C Composites
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00386
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Our work on 3D printing of Supercapacitors is now published in Advanced Functional Materials, and chosen as the Frontispiece!
Congratulations to Yuto! Thank you Shuangmei, a former visiting researcher, for providing us a cool cover art!
Title: Macro- and Nano-Porous 3D-Hierarchical Carbon Lattices for Extraordinarily High Capacitance Supercapacitors
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202201544
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Our work on graphene sensor/ supercapacitor is published in Advanced Functional Materials, Wiley!
Title: Macroporous Graphene Frameworks for Sensing and Supercapacitor Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202203101
