News and Updates

We are thrilled to announce that our faculty member Maxx Arguilla has been honored with the National Fresenius Award from the American Chemical Society, one of the most prestigious recognitions for early-career chemists in the United States. This award, given to only...

We are excited to announce the recipients of the Junior Research Fellow (JRF) Awards for 2024 and 2025! These awards recognize the hard work, creativity, and dedication of our students who contribute not only to cutting-edge research, but also to education and...

We are excited to congratulate Junior Research Fellow Lilian Zeinalvand on the opportunity to present her research at the Microscopy & Microanalysis 2025 Conference in Salt Lake City. Her presentation, “Probing Peptide-Based Assemblies Using Liquid and Cryo-TEM,”...

From July 21 to August 1, CCAM hosted the M-SPIRE Summer Program, a two-week immersive experience for high school and community college students focused on materials science and engineering. The program aims to inspire students and prepare them for pursuing a...

We are proud to congratulate Huiming Guo, a Junior Research Fellow of CCAM and 5th-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), on receiving the Samueli School of Engineering (SSoE) Outstanding Ph.D. Student Research Award. This...

We are excited to announce that Prof. Maxx Arguilla has been honored with the prestigious Rose Hills Foundation Innovator Award for the 2024–2025 academic year. This award recognizes early-career faculty at UC Irvine who demonstrate exceptional promise and innovation...

On June 26, we were honored to host Professor David Srolovitz, Dean of Engineering and Chair of Materials Theory at the University of Hong Kong, as the distinguished speaker for our 2025 Distinguished Lecture on Materials Research. Prof. Srolovitz delivered an...

Before the start of summer, CCAM hosted a series of interactive materials science workshops for 145 students at Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 8. The workshops provided a hands-on opportunity for students to explore how the structure and function of materials...

We’re proud to share that our graduate student I-Hsin Lin has been selected to receive the NSF Student and Postdoc Travel Award to attend the 22nd Annual Conference of Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO) in 2025. This prestigious award supports outstanding early-career...

Penghui has received the Samueli School of Engineering’s Annual Award for Research Excellence in the Mid-Career category. This prestigious award honors faculty who have conducted exceptional fundamental or applied research or made a unique contribution to engineering...

Elizabeth M. Y. Lee, who is part of IRG-1 and SEED of CCAM, has received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, one of the most prestigious honors for early-career faculty. The NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program supports early-career faculty with...

We’re thrilled to celebrate our graduate student Joni Spencer for receiving the Silver Award in the ACS Energy & Fuels Division Student Flash Talk Competition at the 2025 ACS Spring Meeting! This prestigious award honors outstanding student research in energy and...

We’re proud to share that our CCAM graduate and former JRF, Anna González Rosell, has been named a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, an esteemed recognition of her outstanding contributions to science and engineering. Director’s...

Wyeth has been honored with the Edward K.C. Lee Award, the highest distinction granted by UCI’s Department of Chemistry for graduate students. The award, which carries a $2,000 honorarium, recognizes exceptional productivity and impactful scientific breakthroughs....

CCAM Junior Research Fellows and Faculty have had continuous engagement with Alliance middle school students and tracked the effect on academic performance. Through sustained interactions we have been able to measure the impact of activities on California Science Test...

We are thrilled to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our Seed PI, Prof. Maxx Arguilla: Selected as a 2025 IUPAC Young Observer. Maxx has been chosen by the U.S. National Committee as one of ten 2025 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)...

We are pleased to share that Héctor Pascual Herrero, a MRSEC Ph.D. student co-supervised by Regina Ragan and Ruqian Wu, has been awarded the Henry Samueli Endowed Fellowship. This prestigious fellowship recognizes his exceptional research contributions and academic...

Our MRSEC Shared Facilities house two state-of-the-art chromatography platforms that are enabling new insights into active soft matter systems: Waters UPLC H-Class Plus Binary SystemThis ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) system provides high-resolution...

We are proud to announce that Prof. Wilson Ho, CCAM Seed PI, has been awarded the Fourth Heinrich Rohrer Medal – Grand Medal. This prestigious honor recognizes researchers who have made distinguished contributions to nanoscience and nanotechnology through advancements...

We are delighted to announce that Seed PI Prof. Judit Romhanyi has been recognized as the Physical Sciences Dean’s Honoree for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education. This prestigious honor is awarded to faculty members who have demonstrated exceptional...