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Welcome to the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside

Our Department, and indeed the UC Riverside campus, continues to be in a period of rapid growth: outstanding faculty continue to join our Department, the numbers of graduate and undergraduate students continue to increase, a new chemistry building has been built.

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ERIC, CLASS OF ‘20
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Dr. Yadong Yin elected to MRS Fellows

Prof. Yadong Yin has been elected to the class of 2020 MRS Fellows. This highly selective distinction honors the members of Materials Research Society who are notable for their distinguished research accomplishments and their outstanding contributions to the advancement of...
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Dr. Mihri Ozkan elevated to National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Mihri Ozkan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, or NAI. The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in...
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Ludwig Bartels (left) and Alexander Balandin (right) in the Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (POEM) Center at UC Riverside, 2019

Dr. Balandin and Dr. Bartels from UCR receive $1.12 million grant

Alexander Balandin, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside and Ludwig Bartels, a professor of chemistry, have received a $1.12 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct data-driven discovery, synthesis, and characterization of...
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An alternate theory for what causes Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia among the elderly, is characterized by plaques and tangles in the brain, with most efforts at finding a cure focused on these abnormal structures. But a University of California, Riverside, research team...
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Data-Driven Discovery of One-Dimensional Materials

 

Bartels and Balandin receive $1.12 million grant to discover new van der Waals materials
 

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