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Bird Rock Elementary class visit leads to scientific journal feature
The San Diego Union-Tribune | October 26, 2026

UC San Diego professor Dr. Nicole Steinmetz and a group of post-doc and graduate students visited Bird Rock Elementary School to explain the basics of...

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New 'glue' makes batteries simple and sustainable from cradle to grave
Chemical & Engineering News | October 20, 2026

Lithium-ion batteries are expensive and energy intensive to make and complicated to recycle. To change that, researchers have come up with a new recip...

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CIPRA, Murata Partner on Wearable Health Devices
San Diego Business Journal | October 7, 2026

Nearly 700 million wearing health technology devices are expected to be in use by the end of the decade. CIPRA.ai believes digital twins could compoun...

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UC San Diego researcher awarded $800,000 no strings attached
KPBS | October 1, 2026

When Liangfang Zhang got the news, it was a typical morning. He had just finished dropping his daughter off at school and was on his way to his lab. B...

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Organic chemist and nanoscientist named 2026 MacArthur Fellows
Chemical & Engineering News | September 30, 2026

Organic chemist Song Lin of Stanford University and chemical and nanoengineer Liangfang Zhang of the University of California San Diego are among the ...

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Pain, struggle, and hope: This year's scientist MacArthur Fellows
Science | September 30, 2026

University of California, San Diego chemical and bioengineer Liangfang Zhang had just dropped his daughter off at school when he received a call from ...

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