engineering

Light-manipulating proteins potentially useful in optics, electronics and medicine

Calit2 to develop wireless platforms to promote sustainable factory processes

Distinction recognizes his contributions to orthopedics, surgery and emergency care

Southern California’s diabolical ironclad beetle can even survive being run over by car

Campus also climbs to No. 2 for social mobility in annual U.S. News evaluation

Found in cartilage, bones, blood vessels, skin and other connective tissues, collagens are the most abundant proteins by weight in the human body. In an article published recently in Nature Reviews Materials, UCI biomedical engineering researchers provide an exhaustive description of the superfamily of this biomaterial, which includes 28 subtypes. “Collagen – which has known connections […]

Researchers pull in campus-best $529 million in grants and contracts

Can coronavirus be spread with the flush of a toilet? Can it be detected in municipal waste water treatment facilities? Sunny Jiang, professor and chair in UCI’s Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, is working two simultaneous projects to answer these questions, which she discusses in this episode of the UCI Podcast. To get the […]

Bioinspired research project a first step toward intrinsically translucent tissue

Interdisciplinary team designs, tests, produces and delivers 5,000 units to medical center within 17 days