University of California Riverside

Laboratory plants, normally green, turn red in the presence of a toxic pesticide. (Sean Cutler/UCR)
What if your house plant could tell you your water isn’t safe?
Appearing green on a vial lid (left), this structural color material becomes colorless (right) when warmed. Adapted from ACS Nano 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c00467
Color-changing materials indicate when drugs or food gets too warm
The char and activated carbon making process.
Converting plastic waste into a highly porous form of charcoal creates a valuable soil additive
Promising environmentally friendly results in the destruction of PFAS in both drinking water and different types of industrial wastewater
PET scan images show that orally administered EPP6 accumulated in the intestines and made its way into the brain and bladder through blood circulation. (Min Xue/UCR)
Making injections for diabetes and cancer obsolete
Plants are growing in complete darkness in an acetate medium that replaces biological photosynthesis. (Marcus Harland-Dunaway/UCR)
Using artificial photosynthesis approaches to produce food without sunlight
Developmental progression of a yellow fever-carrying mosquito. (Lewis Hun/UCR)
Opening the door to a mosquito-specific insecticide that would not harm beneficial bees or other pollinators
A brilliant and tasty way to prevent pharmaceutical fraud
First and second columns show the original im- ages and manipulated ones respectively. The black and white images in the third column are corresponding bi- nary GT masks. Predicted masks (column 4) and generated CAMs (column 5) for manipulated images from Face2Face (row 1,2,3) and Neural-Textures (row 4,5,6) dataset. (Mazaheri & Roy-Chowdhury, 2022)
Detecting deepfake videos with up to 99% accuracy
Carbon-free fuel possible for space flight?
A floating light-powered robotic film sucks up oil spills at sea and can remove contaminants from drinking water
Switching on plants’ response to light to encourage more food growth
Plants as mRNA factories: Could we grow and eat our own vaccines?
A common insecticide made for commercial plant nurseries is harmful to bees in ANY amount
Inhibiting fungal growth in plants could reduce agricultural reliance on fungicides