MAE Professor Richard Wirz and his research group had their sulfur thermal energy storage (TES) research featured in Advances in Engineering. From the research summary: Professor Richard Wirz at UCLA proposed a novel high-temperature thermal storage solution...

Smaller electronic components offer us more power in our pockets. But thinner and thinner components pose engineering problems. Anisotropic materials—those with properties that vary in direction—hold promise for being unusually versatile. Still, their properties,...

Mechanical engineers at UCLA and China’s Tsinghua University have opened a new path toward reusable energy-absorbing materials – ones designed to take an impact, then bounce back to their original shape and strength. The study was published in Advanced Functional...