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chemical & biomolecular engineering

Multi-paneled research image showing squid iridophore cells at increasing levels of fluorescence.

UC Irvine-led team uncovers cell structures that squids use to change their appearance

Inspired by new knowledge, researchers develop tunable, multispectral composite material

Quinton Smith

Boosting health equity with organ avatars

UCI engineer named one of Popular Science’s Brilliant 10 for using lab-grown blood vessels to benefit marginalized groups

Helping her homeland

UCI engineer starts program to offer sanctuary here to scientists and academics from war-torn Ukraine

UCI engineering team creates biocatalyst for microbial production of useful commodities

Scientists have demonstrated that – in labs – microbes can be used as tiny biological factories to produce fuels, pharmaceutical drugs and other commodities from renewable resources. But achieving output on a commercially viable scale has proven elusive. A key barrier has been so-called cofactors – biocatalysts that spur enzymatic activity in cells – as […]

UCI engineering researchers get $1.9 million grant from NIH for ‘microtsunami' microscope

The National Institutes of Health has awarded UCI engineering researchers a four-year, $1.9 million grant for the development of a noninvasive biophotonics technology platform. The proposed new optical tool will enable scientists to investigate the role of mechanical forces in normal-tissue disease development, and it has applications for high-throughput drug screening. The collaborative, interdisciplinary project […]

Squid skin inspires creation of next-generation space blanket

UCI engineers develop material with heat regulation properties

Taking on tumors

UCI Ph.D. student wins Public Impact Distinguished Fellowship for her efforts to develop a cancer vaccine

A materials world

Director of new UCI research institute discusses its origins, assets and purpose

UCI scientist helps create nanomaterials that mimic living tissue

A team of researchers including Allon Hochbaum, UCI assistant professor of chemical engineering & materials science, has made a breakthrough recently in creating synthetic materials that behave like living tissue. In a paper published in Nature Chemistry, the scientists discuss the development of nanomaterials that transform in response to chemical signals. Applying amino acids to […]

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, […]