The Weiss lab attracts researchers from around the world with a passion for understanding biomolecules. Here, they are working with a vortex fluid device. They purify and refold proteins using only mechanical energy.
Vortex protein purifier
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Igniting passion about chemistry
The colorful flames displayed during a school outreach event in the Yang lab are a big hit! The Yang lab develops inexpensive catalysts for many chemical processes, including renewable fuels.
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Creating a buzz
UC Irvine researchers have developed the first "plastic antibodies" successfully employed in live organisms - stopping the spread of bee venom through the bloodstream of mice.
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Seeing molecular bonds
Structures of single molecules absorbed on a solid surface and imaged by a scanning tunneling microscope in the Ho lab. These experiments visualize chemistry atom-by-atom.
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Message from Chair James Nowick
Welcome to the UCI Department of Chemistry! My colleagues and I are committed to providing undergraduate and graduate students with world-class education and training while pushing the frontiers of knowledge through cutting-edge research.
Please join us! Explore our website. Partake of classes. Apply to our graduate program. Pursue employment opportunities. Contact our faculty.
We welcome our incoming class of 50 graduate students and warmly wish them success in their first steps toward their doctoral degrees.
The Department of Chemistry is committed to excellence through inclusion and diversity. We welcome, respect, and are strengthened by our diversity (more)
