UCLA Engineers Step Up to Help Health Care Workers
With a deluge of patients suffering from COVID-19 expected to flood hospitals in the very near future, UCLA engineers are part of a quickly growing team working to build up supplies of personal protective equipment for health care workers. Bioengineering professor...
Richard Wirz: Cold plasma patch could make immunotherapy more effective for treating melanoma, study finds
Denise Heady | UCLA Newsroom An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has developed a medicated patch that can deliver immune checkpoint inhibitors and cold plasma directly to tumors to help boost the immune response and...
Xiaochun Li: Nanotechnology meets metal fabrication
The Fabricator has published a feature article on MAE Prof. Xiaochun Li's lab technology, "Nanotechnology meets metal fabrication". Excerpt: In late 2018 Travis Widick finished welding a prototype bike frame that looked like any other bike frame, only it wasn’t. The...
Richard Wirz’s Innovative ‘Biplane’ Design Could Lead to Next Generation of Wind Turbines
New shape could make blades lighter, larger and more efficient Biplanes, the fixed-wing aircraft with two wings, one above the other, exist today mostly in aviation museums, World War I movies and black-and-white photos. But thanks to an innovation by UCLA engineers,...
Richard Wirz’s sulfur thermal energy storage research featured in Advances in Engineering
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...
Professor Yongjie Hu’s Group: Quantifying Interface Energy Transport for Near-Junction Electronics Thermal Management
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,...
Lihua Jin: New protective metamaterial takes hit, bounces right back
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...
Xiaochun Li’s research paper “Aluminum with dispersed nanoparticles by laser additive manufacturing” published in Nature Communications
MAE Professor Xiaochun Li's research paper "Aluminum with dispersed nanoparticles by laser additive manufacturing" was published in Nature Communications. The paper discusses how the laser printed nanocomposite delivers a record-high yield strength of up to 1000 MPa,...
Dennis Hong’s new robot ALPHRED 2 featured in IEEE Spectrum article “RoMeLa’s Newest Robot Is a Curiously Symmetrical Dynamic Quadruped”
Dennis Hong's new robot ALPHRED 2 was featured in IEEE Spectrum article "RoMeLa's Newest Robot Is a Curiously Symmetrical Dynamic Quadruped". Excerpt: As it turns out, bipeds aren’t the only robots that can potentially benefit from a bit of a kinematic rethink. RoMeLa...
