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College of Engineering News

NIkil Jayant

Jan 20, 2021
Adjunct Professor Becomes a Fellow at National Academy of Inventors

Nikil Jayant’s contributions — including 36 patents — have enabled highly impactful technological advances.

Illustration depicting, from left, the unlinked polymer ink, application of infrared light to activate the crosslinks, and the final product, a super-soft, super-elastic crosslinked elastomer. Illustration by Isabelle Chabinyc

Jan 19, 2021
Using 3D Printing to Shape Super-soft Polymers

The labs of Michael Chabinyc and Christopher Bates develop a material that yields soft, elastic objects that feel like human tissue.

Jan 10, 2021
Computing Clean Water

Simulations provide molecular design rules for next-generation membrane systems to purify highly contaminated waters more efficiently.

 

Jan 06, 2021
Quantum Promise

Yufei Ding has received a prestigious NSF Early CAREER Award to improve the efficiency and accuracy of quantum devices. 

Jan 05, 2021
Matters of Privacy

Evidation Health has become a founding member of UC Santa Barbara's Center for Responsible Machine Learning. 

Dec 29, 2020
Recognizing Innovation

Yangying Zhu receives a National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award to pursue phase-change research. 

A photo of open web shopping pages displayed on a computer screen

Dec 16, 2020
Google Provides $1 million to Improve "Recommender Dialog" Systems

The research team includes UCSB natural-language-processing expert William Wang. 

Source: The Current
The south side of Henley Hall, new home of the Institute for Energy Efficiency.

Dec 15, 2020
Model of Efficiency

UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency settles into its state-of-the-art home, the just-completed, donor-funded Henley Hall 

 

Artist’s concept illustration depicting a neutron scattering beam equipped with the new capillary rheo-SANS device being used to probe the deformation and breakage of polymers as they are exposed to extremely strong shear flows.

Nov 30, 2020
The Breakdown on Broken Polymers

A new technique promises deeper insights into polymer degradation in high-shear conditions.

Artist's concept illustration depicting cells treated with antibiotics propagating in a river environment, while those that have been treated to remove the fluoride exporters die off in the presence of fluoride.

Nov 30, 2020
Is Fluoride the Answer to Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria?

In Michelle O’Malley’s lab, a simple approach suggests a leap in addressing a grand challenge of our time.

Materials professor and department chair Michael Chabinyc

Nov 24, 2020
Materials Chair Michael Chabinyc Elected AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science recognized him for distinguished contributions to the field of polymer science. 

Illustration of a person at a keyboard working working with binary code to provide a patch for software in an airliner.

Nov 24, 2020
The Fix: Patching Embedded Systems

Fixing software vulnerabilities at the source-code level is difficult. With new DARPA funding, Giovanni Vigna and former students are finding a better way.

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