DSM Performance Materials Award to Craig Hawker
May 5th, 2008
MRL Director Craig Hawker was announced to be the first winner (for 2008) of the recently established DSM Performance Materials Award. This international prize is sponsored by the DSM Corporation in cooperation with IUPAC and will be presented at Mac ...Read More
Evelyn Hu elected to the National Academy of Sciences
April 29th, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 9 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. ...Read More
Squid Beaks Point Pathways to New Research in Materials
April 28th, 2008
The sharp beak of the Humboldt squid is one of the hardest and stiffest organic materials known and it is attached to flexible tissue. Engineers, biologists, and marine scientists at UC Santa Barbara have joined forces to discover how the soft-bodied ...Read More
UCSB Profs Fascinated by Squid Beaks
March 31st, 2008
The beak of the Humboldt Squid, or Dosidicus gigas, is one of hardest organic substances known to scientists. Biologists, marine scientists, and engineers at UCSB are working together to try and understand how a squid’s gelatinous, soft body can oper ...Read More
2008 MRS Fellow- James S. Speck
March 28th, 2008
James S. Speck was elected the 2008 Materials Research Society Fellow for seminal studies of strain relaxation in epitaxial films, and for the development of molecular beam epitaxial growth of GaN, and applications of nonpolar orientations of GaN. ...Read More
Squid Beaks May Have Medical Application
March 28th, 2008
(WASHINGTON) — The razor-sharp beaks that giant squids use to attack whales — and maybe even Captain Nemo's submarine — might one day lead to improved artificial limbs for people. That deadly beak may be a surprise to many people, and has long posed ...Read More
SCIENTISTS FIND THAT SQUID BEAK IS BOTH HARD AND SOFT, MAKING IT A MATERIAL THAT ENGINEERS WANT TO COPY
March 27th, 2008
Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– How did nature make the squid's beak super hard and sharp –– allowing it, without harm to its soft body –– to capture its prey?
The question has captivated those interested in creating new materials that mimic biological ...Read More
Bangalore Prof CNR Rao Bags Prestigious 'Nikkei Asia Prize'
March 1st, 2008
Bangalore, Mar 1: The prestigious 'Nikkei Asia Prize' for Science, Technology and Innovation award has been bagged by Prof Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra (CNR) Rao, national research professor and president of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scie ...Read More
Elusive Green Laser Is Missing Ingredient For Amazing Displays
February 13th, 2008
Imagine a projection-style TV that fits in your hand, but which can fill a whole wall with a full-color, high resolution picture that's as bright as any you've seen. ...Read More
2008 Stanley Katz Lecturer: Jacob Israelachvili
January 28th, 2008
Jacob Israelachvili was named the 2008 Stanley Katz Lecturer at the Department of Chemical Engineering in the City College of the City University of New York. ...Read More
BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR: Areas to Watch
December 21st, 2007
Science magazine recently selected its top seven "Areas to Watch" in all of science for 2008. One of their selections, and the only one in the area of Materials Science, was the field of "Multiferroics", in which UCSB Materials is a world leader. ...Read More
UCSB's Guillermo Bazan Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
October 25th, 2007
October 25, 2007–– Five faculty members at UC Santa Barbara have been awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. ...Read More
Craig Hawker: 2007 Humphrey Memorial Lecturer, University of Vermont
September 29th, 2007
Symposium Topic: The Chemistry of Materials: Polymers and Self-Assembly. ...Read More
UCSB's Robert M. McMeeking Awarded the 2007 Brown Engineering Alumni Medal
May 25th, 2007
In 1997 as part of our celebration of 150 years of teaching engineering at Brown, we introduced the Brown Engineering Alumni Medal as a means of recognizing distinguished Engineering alumni. These medals are awarded to Division of Engineering gradua ...Read More
UCSB's Frederick Lange Awarded the 2007 Distinguished Engineer Award from Rutgers Engineering Society
May 1st, 2007
Frederick Lange received the 2007 Distinguished Engineer award for his research in the development of new ceramic materials. Two materials resulting from his work are Silicon Nitride and Zirconium Oxide, currently used in diverse applications from hi ...Read More
UCSB's Edward Kramer Awarded the 2007 PTN Medema Award
March 5th, 2007
Edward Kramer was awarded the 2007 PTN Medema Award from the National Dutch Graduate School of Polymer Science & Technology. ...Read More
Researchers Led by Shuji Nakamura Achieve Major Breakthrough in Laser Diode Development
January 29th, 2007
A team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara led by Shuji Nakamura, winner of the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize, has reported a major breakthrough in laser diode development. ...Read More
UCSB's Tony Evans Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
January 17th, 2007
Santa Barbara, Calif. - August 7, 2006 - Tony Evans, a professor of Materials and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of his internationally-re ...Read More
UCSB's Fred Lange elected Miegunyah Distinguished Fellow
January 1st, 2007
University of Melbourne ...Read More
2007 Mark Scholar Award- Craig Hawker
January 1st, 2007
Craig Hawker was awarded the 2007 Herman Mark Scholars Award. This award recognizes excellence in basic or applied research and leadership in polymer science by scientists of all ages. ...Read More
UC Santa Barbara Researchers Set New Records in Energy Efficient Light Emitting Diodes
December 13th, 2006
Santa Barbara, Calif. -- December 13, 2006 -- Researchers at UC Santa Barbara’s Solid State Lighting & Display Center and the Japan Science & Technology Agency’s Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology program (JST ERATO) have set new records fo ...Read More
Beyond the Bonds That Bind: UCSB Researchers Discover Hydrogen Can Form Multicenter Bonds
December 3rd, 2006
Santa Barbara, California – December 3, 2006 -- Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have shown that, under the right circumstances, hydrogen can form multicenter bonds, where one hydrogen atom simultaneously bonds to as many as ...Read More
UCSB researchers discover the origin of low capacitance in thin-film capacitors
October 12th, 2006
Santa Barbara, California – October 12, 2006 -- Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have discovered what limits our ability to reduce the size of capacitors, often the largest components in integrated circuits, down to the nanoscale. They have answered a ...Read More
UCSB Announces $2.75 Million NSF Grant for Research and Education in Materials
August 11th, 2006
UCSB will partner with Jackson State University to develop and apply new materials.
Program will also educate, train and mentor minority students and postdoctoral fellows and develop a materials-focused master’s program at JSU.
Partnerships are ...Read More
2006 Millennium Technology Prize Awarded to UCSB's Shuji Nakamura
June 15th, 2006
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) - Professor Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara has been awarded the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize for his invention of revolutionary new light sources: blue, green, and white light-emitting diodes ...Read More
UCSB's Arthur C. Gossard received the Newcomb-Cleveland Award, AAAS
June 1st, 2006
Shared with Micah Hanson, Jason Petta, Charles Marcus and four other Harvard collaborators for the best paper of the 2005-2006 year in Science magazine, "Coherent Manipulation of Coupled Electron Spins in Semiconductor Quantum Dots" ...Read More
