Learning from Mussels to Stretch with Strength

A marine bivalve inspires a new way to make stretchy polymers that are much stronger but just as extensible.

Welding the Unweldable and 3D Printing the Unprintable

PhD students in Tresa Pollock's lab co-lead an industry team that solves an ages-old metallurgy problem.

Six for Six

UCSB’s Materials Research Laboratory receives its sixth round of NSF MRSEC funding

Breakthrough: Precision-designed Superlattice Materials

UCSB engineers create atomically thin superlattice materials — essentially artificial crystals — with precision, allowing them to fine-tune material characteristics.

The Swedish Connection

Professor Brad Chmelka is recognized for atomic-level research that bridges disciplines and links science to engineering solutions.

Diabetes Bubble

Karen Scida, postdoctoral researcher in Professor Sumita Pennathur's lab, wins Otis Williams Fellowship for developing a novel approach to insulin delivery.

Pursuing the Power of Thermoelectric Plastics

Professor Michael Chabinyc and his lab team seek to control the characteristics of conductive polymers, which may be important to energy efficiency.

ChemE Professor Honored for Scholarship and Teaching

Michelle O'Malley is one of 13 young professors in U.S. to receive a 2017 Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.

X-ray Eyes in the Sky

Yasamin Mostofi's lab is first to deomonstrate using drones and WiFi to create 3D images by "seeing" through walls.

Double Dose of Success for CoE Professor

Igor Mezić is honored for long-term contributions to applied mathematics; named co-PI of $6.5 million research project related to novel applications in autonomous devices.

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