by Dionne Rossiter , PhD | Science Communications, UC Berkeley
A multi-institution research team has unveiled AIRES, a powerful AI-driven platform designed to dramatically speed up the discovery of new crystalline materials.
Chemists at UC Berkeley have now created a porous material that breaks this rule, fitting two gas molecules into a single binding site—a feat that could revolutionize the separation or purification of critically important industrial gases.
The 18 individual awards of $60,000 in direct costs will go to 17 scientists from colleges, universities, and research institutions in the United States.
A key discovery in a Berkeley lab led to a spray, now on the market, that protects skin from the cancer-causing UV emitted by gel hardening lamps — without affecting the nails' looks or durability.
Press Release courtesy of the Materials Research Society (MRS)
Yaghi is being honored for pioneering the design and synthesis of metal-organic frameworks and covalent organic frameworks, enabling advances in gas storage, carbon capture, and water harvesting from air.
A flexible polymer membrane incorporating nanoparticles of PAF selectively absorbs nearly 100% of metals such mercury, copper or iron during desalination, more efficiently producing clean, safe water. (UC Berkeley photo by Adam Uliana)
University of California, Berkeley, chemists in the labs of Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and...
Biological fluids are made up of hundreds or thousands of different proteins (represented by space filling models above) that evolved to work together efficiently but flexibly. UC Berkeley polymer scientists are trying to create artificial fluids composed of random heteropolymers (threads inside spheres) with much less...
