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UCLA Newsroom, Sweating the Small Stuff: Smartwatch developed at UCLA Measures Key Stress Hormone – Paul Weiss (February 2022)

Professor Paul Weiss Named Distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras – Paul Weiss (August 2021)

Technology Review: 2021 Pioneers 35 Innovators Under 35 – Nako Nakatsuka (June 2021)

iCANx Story – Prof. Paul Weiss Interview (June 2021)

Pearl Cohen Poster Award – Isaura Frost (June 2021)

Royal Society of Chemistry, Inclusion and Diversity Prize – Samantha Mensah (June 2021)

UCLA Chemistry and BioChemistry, MRS Graduate Student Award – Chuanzhen Zhao (December 2020)

UCLA Chemistry and BioChemistry, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer (IEEE) Fellow – Paul S. Weiss (December 2020)

UCLA Chemistry and BioChemistry, Teacher Scholar Instructor New – Kris Barr (December 2020)

CNSI Paul Weiss Elected Honorary Fellow of CRSI (July 2020)

UCLA Chemistry and BioChemistry Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) for the year 2020-21

UCLA’s TDG Innovation Magazine, (July 2020 Vol 6: pages 18-19)

Nerd Girl Nation: Season 1, Episode 9: Bio-Physics (2019)

IEEE Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology (2019)

Materials Research Society 2019 MRS Fellows Announcement
UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry 2019 MRS Fellows
MyAVS Story AVS 64^thInternational Symposium and Exhibition in Tampa Florida (2 May 2018)
Botswana Daily News Article on African Materials Research Society Meeting and Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi (December 2017)

Anti-Viral
NanoWerk media highlight, Spiky Rose Thorns Inspire Nanoengineered Anti-Viral Herpes Treatment (12 October 2021)

Gene Editing

CRISPR News Medicine story Acoustofluidics – Sounding out New Ways to Delivery Gene Therapies (20 May 2020)

UCLA Newsroom story A Step Toward a More Efficient Way to Make Gene Therapies to Attack Cancer, Genetic disorders (27 April 2020)

EurekAlert story A Step Toward a More Efficient Way to Make Gene Therapies to Attack Cancer, Genetic disorders (27 April 2020)

CNSI story A Step Toward a More Efficient Way to Make Gene Therapies to Attack Cancer, Genetic disorders (27 April 2020)

Alex Lemonade Stand Fund story Transforming Childhood Cancer Research (22 August 2018)

BRAIN
EurekAlert story UCLA-led team develops novel system to track brain chemicals (6 September 2018)
Science Daily story Novel system to track brain chemicals (6 September 2018)
Phys Org story Research team develops novel system to track brain chemicals (6 September 2018)
News Wise story UCLA-Led Team Develops Novel System to Track Brain Chemicals (5 September 2018)
The Guardian story Transforming Childhood Cancer Research (29 May 2018)

Chemical Lift-Off Lithography
Chemical & Engineering News story Chemical Peels For Molecular Films (23 September 2012)
Science Perspective by John Rogers Nanometer-Scale Printing (21 September 2012)
Chemistry World story Lift off for nanoscale printing (20 September 2012)
UCLA story Researchers develop new ‘stamping’ process to pattern biomolecules at high resolution (20 September 2012)

Nanoscale Curvature
R&D Magazine story Molecules sense curvature at the nanoscale (19 September 2012)
NanoWerk and American Society of Nanomedicine story Molecules can sense curvature at the nanoscale (19 September 2012)
Interesting Tech story Researchers find that molecules sense curvature at the nanoscale (19 September 2012)
Phys Org story Researchers find that molecules sense curvature at the nanoscale (19 September 2012)
UCLA story UCLA researchers find that molecules sense curvature at the nanoscale (19 September 2012)

Solar Cells and Solar Cell Windows
MRS Materials 360 (front page) story Transparent Solar Cells Turn Windows into Power Generators (9 August 2012)
The Latest Science Paper of the Month (9 August 2012)
Daily Bruin (front page) story UCLA researchers develops nearly transparent solar film that can generate electricity (30 July 2012)
LA Times (second) story UCLA’s new transparent solar film could be game-changer (28 July 2012)
American Public Media’s Marketplace interview with Yang Yang and Paul Weiss New transparent solar panels could be used as windows (25 July 2012)
ABC News This Could Be Big interview with Yang Yang and Paul Weiss Flexible See-Through Solar Cells for the 21st Century (25 July 2012)
Time Magazine story Windows that Generate Electricity from Invisible Light? Is This the Future or What? (24 July 2012)
LA Times story Transparent solar cells let windows generate electricity (24 July 2012)
Bloomberg story Clear Solar Film Means Power From Windows, UCLA Says (24 July 2012)
Wired story Science Transparent solar cells allow for infrared-harvesting windows (23 July 2012)
Daily Mail story How your windows could be the future of electricity: Scientists create transparent solar panels out of ‘glass-like’ plastic (23 July 2012)
Slate Magazine story New Transparent Polymer Solar Cells Could Cover Skyscrapers and Tablets (23 July 2012)
Materials Today story Highly transparent solar cells (23 July 2012)
PC World story Researchers Develop Solar Panels That Still Let the Sunlight Through (23 July 2012)
New Energy and Fuel story Can UCLA Save Solar Panels? (23 July 2012)
Slashdot story UCLA Develops Transparent, Electricity-Generating, Solar Cell Windows (23 July 2012)
AzoNano story Silver Nanowire Composite Films Used In Transparent Polymer Solar Cells (22 July 2012)
UCLA story UCLA researchers create highly transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity (20 July 2012)
French Tribune story UCLA Researchers Discover Transparent Solar Cells Generating Electricity (21 July 2012)
ANI story Soon, ‘smart’ windows that generate electricity (21 July 2012)
Tehran Times story UCLA researchers create highly transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity (21 July 2012)
UPI story New solar cells may bring ‘power’ windows (20 July 2012)
KCET story UCLA Engineers Develop Transparent Photovoltaic Cells (20 July 2012)
Physics News stories Scientists create highly transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity (20 July 2012)
Laser Focus World story Transparent photovoltaic cell from UCLA absorbs and converts IR (20 July 2012)
Science Tech Daily story Highly Transparent Polymer Solar Cell Produces Energy by Absorbing Near-Infrared Light (20 July 2012)
Sciece Codex story UCLA researchers create highly transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity (20 July 2012)
eScience News story UCLA researchers create highly transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity (20 July 2012)
Science Business story Highly Transparent Solar Cells Developed for Window Glass (20 July 2012)
Nanowerk story UCLA researchers create highly transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity (20 July 2012)
AzoNano story Novel Method to Produce Highly Conductive, Flexible Electrodes Using Silver Nanowires (23 November 2011)
Science Daily story Highly Efficient Method for Creating Flexible, Transparent Electrodes Developed (22 November 2011)
Softpedia story New Avenue to Transparent Electrodes Pursued at UCLA (22 November 2011)
eScience News story UCLA team develops highly efficient method for creating flexible, transparent electrodes (22 November 2011)
Chemical & Engineering News story Easy Method Produces Flexible Transparent Electrodes (8 November 2011)
CNSI story Easy Method Produces Flexible Transparent Electrodes (8 November 2011)

California NanoSystems Institute
Chemical & Engineering News Nanoscale Focus on CNSI (12 March 2012)
Chemical & Engineering News Editor’s Page on Alan Alda’s play Radiance and CNSI (28 November 2011)
Chemical & Engineering News story Weiss named director of CNSI (21 December 2009)

General and Popular
Kavli Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Electronics: How Atomic-Scale Devices Are Transforming Electronics (June 2012)
Chemical & Engineering News article on nanomaterials characterization Sweating the Small Stuff (28 May 2012)
The Science & Entertainment Exchange Scientist Spotlight (19 March 2012)
World Brain Mapping Meeting Interview with Paul Weiss (June 2011)

Nanotoxicology and NanoEnvironmental Health and Safety
Nanowerk Article on Silver Nanoparticle Morphology (June 2012)

Comments on a Four-Wheel Drive Molecular Car
BBC Radio The Naked Scientists Interview story A Molecular ‘four-wheel drive’ (November 2011)
Cosmos Magazine story Smallest electric car in the world revealed (15 November 2011)
Deutschlandfunk (German Public Radio) interview World’s Tiniest Electric Vehicle Rolls Out (10 November 2011)
Discovery News story World’s Tiniest Electric Vehicle Rolls Out (9 November 2011)
Science News story Tiniest car gets a test drive (9 November 2011)
New Scientist story Single-molecule nanocar takes its first spin (9 November 2011)

ACS Nano

Neurotransmitter Capture Surfaces
Nano News story Molecule-sized bait used to fish for new drug targets (17 May 2010)
Zimbio story Nanoscale Fishing for Molecules May Lead to New Psychiatric Medications Say UCLA and PSU Researchers (16 May 2010)
Nanotechnology Now story Molecule-sized bait used by UCLA research team to fish for new drug targets (15 May 2010)
Phys Org story Molecule-sized bait used by UCLA research team to fish for new drug targets (15 May 2010)
NanoTechWire story Molecule-sized bait used by UCLA research team to fish for new drug targets (15 May 2010)
UC Health story Bait for new drug targets (14 May 2010)
CNSI story Molecule-sized bait used by UCLA research team to fish for new drug targets (14 May 2010)
Nano News story Fishing for new drug targets with molecule-sized bait (14 May 2010)
My Science: The Portal for Research and Innovation story Molecule-sized bait to fish for new drug targets (14 May 2010)
Azo Nano story Molecular Technique Could Lead to New Generation of Psychiatric Medications (May 2010)

New Families of Molecules for Self-Assembled Monolayers
Materials Today story SAM Meets Carboranes (26 May 2009)
Chemie.De story A new family of molecules for self-assembly: The carboranes | PDF (27 March 2009)
Science Daily story New Family Of Molecules For Self-assembly: The Carboranes (26 March 2009)
Science Centric story A new family of molecules for self-assembly: The carboranes (26 March 2009)
Penn State Live News Story A new family of molecules for self-assembly: The carboranes (25 March 2009)
EurekAlert story A new family of molecules for self-assembly: The carboranes (25 March 2009)
Penn State Eberly College of Science News Story A New Family of Molecules for Self-Assembly: The Carboranes (24 March 2009)
Physorg story A New Family of Molecules for Self-Assembly: The Carboranes (24 March 2009)

Molecular Plasmonics
Nature Materials Write-up on Active Molecular Plasmonics (PDF). (February 2009)
Nanotechnology Now Article Molecular Machines Drive Plasmonic Nanoswitches. (11 February 2009)
Penn State Eberly College of Science News Story Molecular Machines Drive Plasmonic Nanoswitches (11 February 2009)
Penn State Live News Story Molecular Machines Drive Plasmonic Nanoswitches (11 February 2009)

Photoisomerization of Single Molecules
Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches (25 June 2008)
NanoST World story Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches (25 June 2008)
Science Daily story Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches (25 June 2008)
MRS Materials News story Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches (24 June 2008)
Nanotechwire story Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches (24 June 2008)
Materials Gate story
Penn State Eberly College of Science News Story Tethered Molecules Act as Light-Driven Reversible Nanoswitches (23 June 2008)
Physorg story Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches (23 June 2008)
Eurekalert story Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches (23 June 2008)
Science Editor’s Choice Chemistry: Free to Switch (30 May 2008)

Synthetic Biology and the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition
Center for Nanoscale Science Nugget on Penn State’s iGEM Team
Penn State Live Story: Penn State team a gold medal winner at iGEM competition (13 December 2007)
Penn State Live Story: Penn State team a gold medal winner at iGEM competition (13 December 2007)
Nature cover story on the 2005 iGEM Competition Designs on Life (24 November 2005)

Visualizing Chemistry
Chemical & Engineering News Guest Editorial by Dr. Nancy Jackson Visualizing Chemistry. (30 July 2007)
National Academy of Science Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology Poster Get the Picture? (30 July 2007)

Substrate-Mediated Interactions
Science Article Surface Science: Long Intervals in the Islands (pdf) (8 June 2007)

Chemical & Engineering News 10 December 2001 Cover

Molecular Rulers
MForesight Manufacturing Ideas to Watch Scalable Three-Dimensional Nanostructure Fabrication (23 August 2018).
Scientists Create ‘Molecular Rulers’ Enabling Precise Construction of Nanoscale Structures (Eberly College of Science News).
Chemical & Engineering News News of the Week article on Molecular Rulers (12 February 2001).
Nanotech Alert article on Molecular Rulers
United Press International article on Molecular Rulers.
Space Daily article on Molecular Rulers (13 February 2001).
Penn State Intercom article on Molecular Rulers (15 February 2001).
Penn State Daily Collegian article on Molecular Rulers (20 February 2001). (artwork)
Cover story in The Chemical Engineer Story (March 2001). Cover
Cover story in Materials Today Story (March 2001). Cover
Science et Vie Micro (SVM), article in April 2001 issue (in french).
Molecular rulers article on the back cover of the Summer 2001 issue of Science Journal.
Research Penn State article on Nanofabrication (Fall, 2001). Page 38, Page 39, Page 40, Page 41, Page 42.

Chemical & Engineering News Chemistry News of the Year included Molecular Rulers (and molecular switches). (10 December 2001). C&E News Cover 10 Dec 2001
Center for Nanoscale Science Nugget on Molecular Rulers

NanoApplications Workshop on Molecular Rulers and Chemically Advanced Nanolithography held in collaboration with the North Carolina State University Center for Innovation Management. (12 July 2005)
Center for Nanoscale Science Nugget on NanoApplications Workshop

Combining Photolithography with Molecular Rulers: Advanced Materials Advances in Advance article Hybrid Approaches to Nanolithography: Photolithographic Structures with Precise, Controllable Nanometer-Scale Spacings Created by Molecular Rulers (15 March 2006)
NSF MRSEC Nugget on Molecular Rulers: A Marriage of Molecules and Metal @ Pennsylvania State University

Molecular Switches
50 Years of Science, Technology, and the AVS (1953-2003): Materials in nanotechnology: New Structures, new properties, new complexity (Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 21, S194, September 2003)
Eureka Alert article on molecular electronics (14 February 2002).
Molecular switches article in Spring 2002 issue of Science Journal.
Chemical & Engineering News Chemistry News of the Year included Molecular Switches (and molecular rulers). (10 December 2001).
New York Times Article: Clever Wiring Harnesses Tiny Switches or www version (17 July 2001, Science Times, Pages D1-2).
Microelectronics Technology Alert on Molecular Switches (29 June 2001).
Chemical & Engineering News News of the Week article on Molecular Switches: The Ol’ Switcheroo Comes in a New Size (Print Version) (25 June 2001).
Nanodot.org article on Molecular Switches: Single Molecule Switching Via Conformational Change (22 June 2001).
United Press International article on Molecular Switches: Single-molecule computer switches advance (21 June 2001).
Research Reveals Potential of Single Molecules to Function as Switches When They Change Shape (Eberly College of Science News).
Molecular Switch article on STP News High Tech On-line.
AAAS press release on molecular electronics session at annual meeting.
Eureka Story on Molecular Switches

Molecular Electronics
Science News article: Molecular Electronics: Next-Generation Technology Hits an Early Midlife Crisis (Science 302, 556, 24 October 2003)
Commentary, letters, and corrections to the above article ((Science 303, 1136, 20 February 2004).

Molecular Engineering of Molecular Switches
Science Editor’s Choice Article on Biased Molecular Switching (pdf Version) (8 October 2004)
Nanotechnology Now Article Control of Molecular Switches Increased (30 September 2004)
EurekAlert/NanoTechWeb Article on Biased Molecular Switching (pdf Version) (6 October 2004)
SpaceDaily Story: Control Of Molecular Switches Increased By Tailored Intermolecular Interactions (30 September 2004)

Manipulating Atoms under the Surface
Science Daily Article A First: Hydrogen Atoms Manipulated Below The Surface Of A Palladium Crystal (18 December 2005)

Chemical & Engineering News Article on Moving subsurface hydrogen atoms. (12 December 2005)
Defense News Article on Hydrogen Manipulation. (12 December 2005)
Science Editor’s Choice SURFACE SCIENCE: Subsurface Manipulation Article on Moving Atoms under the Surface (9 December 2005)
Space Daily Article Hydrogen Atoms Manipulated Below Surface of a Palladium Crystal (5 December 2005)
Nanotechnology Now Article Hydrogen Atoms Manipulated Below Surface of Palladium Crystal (5 December 2005)
Green Car Congress Article Hydrogen Atoms Manipulated Below Palladium Crystal Surface: Implications for H₂ Storage, Fuel Cells, Catalytic Reactions (5 December 2005)
Innovations Report Article A First: Hydrogen Atoms Manipulated Below the Surface of a Palladium Crystal (5 December 2005)
Science Daily Article A first: Hydrogen atoms manipulated below surface of palladium crystal (December 2005)
All Microscopes Article A First: Hydrogen Atoms Manipulated Below The Surface Of A Palladium Crystal (4 December 2005)
What’s Next in Science and Technology Article A First: Hydrogen Atoms Manipulated Below The Surface Of A Palladium Crystal (2 December 2005)
Azom Article A first: Hydrogen atoms manipulated below surface of palladium crystal (2 December 2005, updated 5 December 2005)
Penn State Eberly College of Science News Story A First: Hydrogen Atoms Manipulated Below the Surface of a Palladium Crystal (2 December 2005)
Physorg Article A first: Hydrogen atoms manipulated below surface of palladium crystal (2 December 2005)
EurekAlert Article A first: Hydrogen atoms manipulated below the surface of a palladium crystal Resulting structure predicted to be important in fuel cells, metal catalysis, and hydrogen storage (2 December 2005)
PSU Live Article A first: Hydrogen atoms manipulated below surface of palladium crystal (2 December 2005)
ChemLin Article A first: Hydrogen atoms manipulated below surface of palladium crystal (2 December 2005)
PhysOrg Article A first: Hydrogen atoms manipulated below surface of palladium crystal (2 December 2005)
Chemistry World from the Royal Society of Chemistry Article Focus on palladium’s hydrogen storage potential (29 November 2005)

Fifty Years of Imaging Atoms Meeting
Chemical & Engineering News Cover Story on Fifty Years of Imaging Atoms Meeting (28 November 2005)

Displaceable Monolayers
Nature Research Highlights article on adamantanethiol self-assembled monolayers. Nanotechnology: Going for Gold (16 June 2005)
statecollege.com article on adamantanethiol self-assembled monolayers
The All I Need Article New Material Could Improve Fabrication of Nanoscale Components (2005)

Nanoscience
TEQ Magazine of the Pittsburgh Technology Council cover story on Nanoscience. (September 2005)

Outreach
Chemical & Engineering News article on Penn State’s Action Potential summer camps features TJ Mullen (pdf). (9 August 2005)

Nanoscale Applications
NanoApplications Workshop on Molecular Rulers and Chemically Advanced Nanolithography held in collaboration with the North Carolina State University Center for Innovation Management. (12 July 2005)
Center for Nanoscale Science Nugget on NanoApplications Workshop

Protopolymer
PhysOrg Article on Protopolymer (7 December 2004)
New Materials Article on Protopolymer (7 December 2004)
Science News Daily Article on Protopolymer (7 December 2004)
EurekAlert Article on Protopolymer (7 December 2004)
Innovations Report Article on Protopolymer (8 December 2004)
Nanotechnology Now Article on Protopolymer (7 December 2004)
Nanotech Wire Article on Protopolymer (14 December 2004)
Accelerating Intelligence Article on Protopolymer (8 December 2004)
Space Daily Article on Protopolymer (8 December 2004)
Nano Tsunami Article on Protopolymer (7 December 2004)
Chemical & Engineering News Science and Technology Concentrate on Protopolymers: “Protopolymer in Unbonded netherworld (print version) (13 December 2004).
Science Editor’s Choice Article on Protopolymer (pdf Version) (14 January 2005)
Chemistry World from the Royal Society of Chemistry Article Polymers without the bonds (15 February 2005)

Comments on Penn State Research
Centre Daily Times article on Penn State Research (on-line) (print version)

Technology Review article on Innovations in Nanotechnology (June 2002).

Weiss serves as faculty escort at graduation for student marshal Suzanne Bisceglia (June 2002).

Nanolithography and Chemical Patterning
Chemical & Engineering News cover story on click chemistry (and patterning) with Barry Sharpless (11 February 2002).

Self-Assembly across Surfaces
Folha de Sao Paulo article on self-assembly across surfaces (in Portugese, 10 October 2001).
Chemical & Engineering News www edition of article (22 October 2001).

Jobs
Dr. Alex Kandel joins the Notre Dame University Chemistry Faculty.
Prof. Chris Keating joins the Penn State Chemistry Faculty.
Dr. Lloyd Bumm joins the University of Oklahoma Physics and Astronomy Faculty.
Dr. Kevin Kelly joins the Rice University Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty.
Dr. Tom Pearl joins the North Carolina State University Physics Faculty.
Dr. Zach Donhauser joins the Vassar College Chemistry Faculty.
Dr. Greg McCarty joins the Bioengineering Faculty of the joint University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University.
Dr. Charlie Sykes joins the Tufts University Chemistry Faculty.
Dr. Jennifer Hampton joins the Washington and Jefferson College Physics Faculty.
Dr. Luis Fernandez-Torres joins the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey Chemistry Faculty.
Dr. Anat (Hatzor) de Picciotto joins the Montclair State University Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty.
Dr. Susan Gillmor joins the George Washington University Chemistry Faculty.
Dr. Tao Ye joins the University of California at Merced School of Natural Sciences Faculty.
Dr. Chris Love joins the MIT Chemical Engineering Faculty.
Dr. Pengpeng Zhang joins the Michigan State University Department of Physics Faculty.
Dr. Jennifer Hampton joins the Hope College Department of Physics Faculty.
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Anderson joins the Hope College Department of Chemistry Faculty.
Dr. Patrick Han joins the Tohoku University Faculty.

Alumni
Dr. Stephan Stranick (group alumnus) featured in Chemical & Engineering News Anniversary Issue: New Voices in Chemistry.
Dr. Stephan Stranick (group alumnus) featured in Chemical & Engineering News again on 30 April 2001, p. 37 and p. 38.
Prof. Chris Keating‘s nanorod assembly work featured in Science on 3 August 2001, p. 782, p. 783, p. 784, and p. 785.
Prof. Chris Keating‘s nano-scale striped metal rods featured in wired.com, nature.com, NPR’s Weekend Edition, and many other places! (October 2001)
Prof. Kevin Kelly’s Group’s Single Pixel Camera in USA Today, BBC, Live Science, and elsewhere. (September 2006)