A materials world
Director of new UCI research institute discusses its origins, assets and purpose
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Course of action
UCI among first campuses to offer interdisciplinary UC class fostering climate change solutions
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, […]
Big wheels in motion
UCI is first college in nation to convert to all-electric bus fleet
Global reach
UCI is sustaining its outsized reputation for tracking and tackling environmental challenges
Ahead of the curve
From Nobel Prize-winning findings about the planet’s rapidly changing atmosphere to innovative technologies and solutions, the campus is ahead of the curve on the most daunting challenges of our time. Surging king tides and fiercer storms along the West Coast are being plotted on real-time three-dimensional maps by UCI engineers for Newport Beach and Tijuana, and social […]
In a national first, UCI injects renewable hydrogen into campus power supply
Power-to-gas technique offers new way to store and use excess wind and solar energy
Ahead of Their Time
In the spirit of UCI’s forward-thinking founders, campus researchers see beyond the present to create a brilliant future
UCI to co-lead $50 million water-energy research consortium
US-China collaboration also will include 4 other UC campuses, university lab
W.M. Keck Foundation grants UCI $1 million for deep-ocean power science lab
The W.M. Keck Foundation has granted $1 million to UC Irvine to build a campus laboratory in which researchers can explore the potential of using the deep ocean’s low-temperature and high-pressure conditions to generate carbon-free power from methane hydrates.