University of California Riverside

Root microbiome engineering improves plant growth
Reshaping the solar spectrum to turn light to electricity
New device could greatly improve speech and image recognition
Novel Pretreatment Could Cut Biofuel Costs by 30 Percent or More
New Paper-like Material Could Boost Electric Vehicle Batteries by Nearly 10 Times
Scientists Reprogram Plants for Drought Tolerance
Researchers Make Magnetic Graphene
From left, Wartini Ng, Timothy Chow, Kawai Tam, Jonathan Matson and Brian Cruz
Device Eliminates 93 Percent of Lawnmower Pollutant
Researchers have developed a lithium ion battery made of sand that outperforms the current standard by three times.
Using Sand to Improve Battery Performance
Top: Scheme showing magnetic control over light transmittance in the novel liquid crystals. B is the alternating magnetic field. The polarized light is seen in yellow. The gray rods represent the polarizers. The magnetic field controls the orientation of the nanorods (seen in orange), which in turn affects the polarization of the light and, then, the amount of light that can pass through the polarizers. Bottom: Images show how a polarization-modulated pattern changes darkness/brightness by rotating the direction of the cross polarizers. The circles and background contain magnetic nanorods aligned at different orientations. Research by the Yin Lab at UC Riverside shows that by combining magnetic alignment and lithography processes, it is possible to create patterns of different polarizations in a thin composite film and control over the transmittance of light in particular areas. IMAGE CREDIT: YIN LAB, UC RIVERSIDE.
Let There Be Light: Chemists Develop Magnetically Responsive Liquid Crystals
Mihri and Cengiz Ozkan, both professors in the Bourns College of Engineering.
Charging Portable Electronics in 10 Minutes
From left, Mihrimah Ozkan, Cengiz Ozkan and Zachary Favors in the Ozkan's lab.
Improved Supercapacitors for Super Batteries, Electric Vehicles
At left, two tiles coated with the titanium dioxide mixture. At right, uncoated tiles. At top, a commercially available tile with titanium dioxide.
Cleaning the Air with Roof Tiles
Silicon polymer and battery used for the research. Description Battery and silcon dioxide sample
Silly Putty Material Inspires Better Batteries
Jacob D. Lanphere, a Ph.D. student at UC Riverside, holds a sample of graphene oxide.
Graphene Not All Good