Researchers Abolfazl Sadeghpour, the study's co-lead author, Hangjie Ji and Navid Dehdari Ebrahimi with their experimental water capture setup. | Oszie Tarula/UCLA. Article by Matthew Chin Inspired by how dew drops form on spider webs, UCLA engineers and...

Super-strong but lightweight, AA 7075 now could be more widely used in automobiles and other manufacturing thanks to UCLA research An aluminum alloy developed in the 1940s has long held promise for use in automobile manufacturing, except for one key obstacle. Although...

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom New manufacturing process could lead to microscale soft robots, advanced sensors, and materials that release stored strain energy in controlled ways for shape morphing and energy absorbing applications. How small can you make a...

First experiments on a first-of-a-kind multiple-effect facility newly constructed at UCLA in collaboration with EUROfusion confirms recent UCLA scientific discovery A new multiple-effect facility, MaPLE-U, has been constructed at UCLA with funds from the DOE Office of...

Above: Dr. Jin in her Mechanics of Soft Materials Lab at UCLA. Soft materials are capable of large deformation, and have mechanical properties comparable to those of biological tissues. Recent developments in soft materials are enabling the rise of soft robotics,...

Materials in extreme environments are the unsung heroes in our everyday lives.  Materials used in rocket, jet and automotive engines, nuclear reactors, space satellites, submarines, aircraft structures, and other extreme environments are exposed to unusually harsh...

The November 2018 issue of Materials Research Bulletin journal will feature five articles written by distinguished researchers, organized by Professor Gregory Carman and Professor Nian Sun. The articles discuss the control of magnetism and are designed to encourage...

We are surrounded by flowing fluids. The air around us, the blood inside of us, both are flows that require complex equations to understand and predict. UCLA MAE Professor Jeff Eldredge, director of UCLA’s SOFIA Laboratory, explores a wide variety of phenomena that...

Imagine a science fiction world where the following is an everyday reality: travelling at a fraction of the speed of light and reaching the closest stars; using our own sun as a lens to see exoplanets; harnessing the sun’s gravity as a slingshot for huge solar sails....