UCLA Samueli
Materials Science and Engineering
3111 Engineering V
Yu Huang
Department Chair
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Our Latest Research News
The World’s Largest 3D-Printed Neighborhood Is Here
Photographer: Jordan Vonderhaar for Bloomberg Green By Todd Woody If it can scale, the 3D-printing process promises to deliver energy-efficient and climate-resilient homes that can be built faster, in novel designs and with minimal construction waste....
UCLA Engineers Design Solar Roofs to Harvest Energy for Greenhouses
Yang Yang Laboratory/UCLA A miniature greenhouse prototype with its roof built of semi-transparent solar cells invented by UCLA materials scientists that resulted in better plant growth than a traditional greenhouse Advance can simultaneously benefit...
UCLA Team Develops Ultrathin Films for Stretchable and Sturdy Bioelectronic Membranes
The layered patchwork design of van der Waals thin films enables the membrane to stretch and flex over irregular geometries. (Yan et al./UCLA) The highly adaptable materials could lead to new classes of wearable devices, diagnostic sensors and...
Department Announcements
2024 QS Ranking: UCLA MSE No. 6 in the US
In the just-released and broadly watched 2024 QS World University Subject ranking of Materials Sciences, our department was ranked at No. 6 in the US . In addition to reputation surveys of academics and employers, this ranking analyzes publications and citations...
