Engineering professor receives prestigious NSF early-career award

The National Science Foundation has recognized Timothy Rupert, UCI assistant professor of mechanical & aerospace engineering and chemical engineering & materials science, with a CAREER award.

UCI scientists partner with Under Armour to create squidlike fabric for self-regulating thermal comfort

With a $2.8 million grant, UCI assistant professor of chemical engineering & materials science Alon Gorodetsky and colleagues are working with Under Armour to create a fabric based on the adaptive principles of squid skin that will enable wearers to regulate their own temperature.

Professor Martha Mecartney named a fellow of the American Ceramic Society

UC Irvine’s Martha Mecartney, professor of chemical engineering & materials science at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Ceramic Society.

Professor Martha Mecartney named a fellow of the American Ceramic Society

UC Irvine’s Martha Mecartney, professor of chemical engineering & materials science at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Ceramic Society.

UC Irvine News Brief: Mohraz wins award

Ali Mohraz, UC Irvine assistant professor of chemical engineering & materials science, has received a $400,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.

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Fulbright’s finest

UCI rates as top-producing school for prestigious international exchange program

UCI chemists’ solar-powered device generates electricity through ion transport

Innovative technology could lead to low-cost seawater desalination

Engineers pioneer platinum shell formation process – and achieve first-ever observation

UCI researchers have devised a new method of dynamically forming a platinum shell on a metallic alloy nanoparticle core, a development that may lead to better materials for oxygen reduction reactions in fuel cells that power some cars and electronic devices. In a first, engineers were able to observe the process directly, in real time, […]

Engineer Regina Ragan named Fulbright Scholar

UCI’s Regina Ragan, associate professor of chemical engineering & materials science, has been named a Fulbright U.S. Scholar and will collaborate with researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany through the Fulbright Flex program. Ragan’s work involves developing new processes in advanced manufacturing of nanoscale devices. She is creating technology that employs optical sensing to detect metabolites that […]