Research Highlights

Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director of the National Science Foundation, recently visited UCLA to meet with students, faculty members, and campus leaders.

A versatile and scalable strategy to separate parent triblock terpolymers into libraries of fractionated samples spanning a wide range of compositions was developed.

An overview of recent progress in investigating polymer systems by using Differential Dynamic Microscopy.

3D printing resins that generate super-soft, dynamic, and self-healable elastomers.

New X-ray Facility Brings Synchrotron-level Capabilities to BioPACIFIC MIP

A strategy for making a new class of additive manufacturing resins has been developed. 

A non-plant biosynthetic pathway that produces olivetolic acid (OA) has been elucidated.

A statistical analysis that reduces computational times by 25-120 times in Differential Dynamic Microscopy (DDM), was achieved.

The BioPACIFIC MIP Living Biofoundry (LBF) has been installed at UCLA and is now available to users.

First BioPACIFIC MIP Summer School took place virtually, August 2-5, 2021

Adducts of cyclopentadienone–norbornadiene (CPD–NBD) have been developed and utilized in Diels–Alder based photopatterning of soft materials.

BioPACIFIC MIP Fellowship Awards made to support in-house research at UCSB and UCLA.