Water Purification Our lab has a close collaboration with Prof. Eric Hoek at the Civil Engineering Department on developing water purification membranes. The early studies were emphasized on polyaniline-based ultrafiltration membranes, where the as-cast membranes were rapidly immersed in a water bath, underwent a phase inversion in order to create channels. In order to improve …
Designing Superhard Materials Ten years ago, we (along with Professor Sarah Tolbert and her research group) suggested that new superhard materials could be compositionally designed by incorporating covalent bonding into high valence electron density metals. The covalent bonds prevent shear and the electron density adds incompressibility. Transition metal borides exemplify these parameters by providing high …
Professor Richard B. Kaner University of California, Los Angeles Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 607 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569 Phone: (310) 825-5346 Email: kaner@chem.ucla.edu Student Offices Molecular Sciences Building: 2211, 2220, 2224, 1240 Phone: (310) 206-8393
Conducting Polymers Our lab has conducted the pioneered research on the synthesis of polyaniline nanofibers since year of 2003. We found out that polyaniline nanofibers can be synthesized through facile interfacial polymerization or rapid mixing without stirring. In contrast to the traditionally formed polyaniline, the as-synthesized polyaniline nanofibers have a high surface area, resulting in …
Post Doc Cheng-Wei Lin National TsingHua UniversityB.S. Chemistry Northwestern UniversityM.S. PhD. UCLA Research: conducting polymers Interest: watching youtube and cooking Personal website: https://c-wlin.com/ Willard F Libby Teacher-Scholar Mackenzie Anderson University of California, Los AngelesB.S. ChemistryM.S. ChemistryPh.D. Chemistry Research: water filtration Graduate Students Chenxiang Wang Tongji UniversityB.S. Chemistry Research: Energy storage Musibau Francis Jimoh B.S. Ahmadu …
Professor Kaner’s graduate and postdoctoral work centered on discovering and developing different aspects of conducting polymers, graphite, and other solid-state phenomena. As such, the research in the Kaner lab spans a range of topics within a materials science and inorganic chemistry focus. Current active research topics include graphene, energy storage, superhard materials, water filtration and …
Alumni Name Organizational Affiliation Aguilar, Stephanie Herocia Technologies Akopov, Georgiy Rutgers U. Allen, Matthew McKinsey Anderson, Arthur Honeywell Anderson, Mackenzie UCLA Baker, Christina PPG Aerospace Blair, Richard U Central Florida Bonneau, Philippe Maine Health Data Organization Bux, Sabah JPL Chang, Eun-Woo NSF Conklin, Jeanine PPG Chung, Hsiu-Ying National Chiao Tung U. Cumberland, Robert HRL D’Arcy, …
Richard B. Kaner Distinguished ProfessorDr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials InnovationDepartment of Chemistry and BiochemistryDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering Biography Richard B. Kaner received his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. After carrying out postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the University …
Congratulations to Ric for receiving the Endowed Chair! Read more here.
Ric received this award for outstanding contributions to solid-state synthesis, energy storage materials and super hard materials. Read more about the prize here!
