Research

Researchers will work toward improving efficiency in electric motors, quantum computing, and large language models with IEE support.

A seaweed-derived gel that helps scientists understand how cells grow in their environment could be used for breast cancer research.

A new study finds that adding certain dopants could lead to safer, more energy-efficient batteries.

An unfavorable condition in 3D semiconductor materials may be beneficial in 2D semiconductors.

If there’s one thing we humans are good at, it’s producing heat. Significant amounts, and in many cases most of the energy we generate and put into our systems we lose as heat, whether it be our appliances, our transportation, our factories, even our electrical grid.“Waste heat is everywhere,” said UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineering professor Bolin Liao, who specializes in thermal science and renewable energy. “Our power plants, our car exhaust pipes — there are so many places where we create excess heat waste.”

Fireflies, pendulum clocks, our heart muscles and the neurons regulating our daily internal processes: these things all have a tendency toward synchrony.