nanotechnology

Local high school students learn about the life of a UCLA scientist and practical uses for nanotechnology.

UCLA and Caltech researchers created jagged platinum nanowires that would require only 1/50 as much platinum as used in current smooth-shaped wires.

UCLA researchers note that the next decade shows great promise for things like improving food safety, fighting infections, storing energy and supplying clean energy.

The UCLA professor emeritus, who directed the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, was honored with two others for designing and developing molecular machines.

A fluid that behaves similarly to water in our day-to-day lives becomes as heavy as honey when trapped in a nanocage.

The findings are a major step toward confirming an unusual theory of how some cancer cells metastasize, and the study could lead to new strategies for keeping melanoma from spreading.

The test, developed by UCLA researchers, could also be used to identify biomarkers for cancer and infectious diseases.

The device combines two components invented at UCLA: a photonic time stretch microscope and a deep learning computer program that identifies cancer cells with over 95 percent accuracy.

Volunteer scientists, graduate students and staff from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA set up a booth to demystify nanoscience in fun ways.

Mesoporous silica nanoparticles deliver the drug directly to the tumor instead of having it spread through the bloodstream.

Wavelength scanning pixel super-resolution allows researchers to view large samples in much finer detail.

The advance could make it much more efficient to build nanoelectronic and nanobioelectronic devices that could measure brain cell and circuit function in real time.

To create the super-strong but lightweight metal, scientists found a new way to disperse and stabilize nanoparticles in molten metals.

Discovery could aid in the creation of vaccines and drug treatments for bluetongue disease.

The study, by researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute, could be an important step in the effort to satisfy the world’s need for clean water.

Nanoparticle system delivers the antibiotic moxifloxacin directly to infected cells, greatly improving treatment of pneumonic tularemia.

UCLA research reveals the three-dimensional atomic structure of a double-stranded RNA virus and the biological nano-switch that turns on transcription.

Technique creates 3-D objects that could be used in a variety of biomedical and industrial applications.

The new cell construction extends the cell’s effective life in air by more than 10 times, with only a marginal loss of efficiency converting sunlight to electricity.

UCLA researchers found that the tiny particles can strengthen gutta percha, the material used to fill the root canal, and even deliver drugs to fight infection.

“There is so much potential for treating disease if we understand deeply how telomerase works,” said UCLA professor Juli Feigon, a senior author of the study.

The particles are used in a wide range of consumer products for their ability to kill bacteria. But that benefit might be coming at a cost to the environment.

The advance could eventually lead to vastly improved technology for capturing solar energy.

Cement manufacturing accounts for roughly 7 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, but scientists are determined to lessen its environmental impact.

Fuel cells and hydrogen batteries are already important sources of green energy, but further advances will require scientists and engineers to better understand how the technologies work.