Hydrogen Identified as a Culprit in Capacity Loss of Batteries

UCSB researchers reveal that a common impurity degrades battery electrodes.

Summer GRIT Talks Underscore UCSB Researchers' Inspiration and Impact

The annual lecture series features some of UCSB's leading faculty sharing their research.

Best Student Paper Award for Doctoral Student at Top AI Conference

Xin Wang's paper is recognized as the best of the more than 1,300 papers that were accepted for consideration.

A Large Computational Step Toward Faster Healing and Better Drug Delivery

Professor Frederic Gibou's lab creates the first large-scale simulation of cells’ response to electrical pulses.

Strong Signals: ECE Professor Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award

Less than one year after joining the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as an assistant professor, Loai Salem has received the DARPA Young Faculty Award.

Chemical Engineering Student "Mussels" in to Win 2019 UCSB Grad Slam

George Degen takes home grand prize and $5,000 for three-minute talk about his research into mussels' ability to adhere to wet surfaces.

A Top Ten Robot

Mechanical engineer's pneumatic-powered soft robot is named one of Science Robotics’ “Ten robotics technologies of the year.”

Glimpsing the Future

UCSB engineering professor John Bowers’ group develops a high-performance mode-locked quantum-dot laser on silicon, enabling blazing data-transmission rates.

The Olefin in the Room

At a polymer-upcycling workshop, members of academia, national labs, and industry take on one of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Moving Precision Lasers from Bench Scale to Chip Scale

Shrinking a high-performance laser paves the way for broader applications of the powerful technology.

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