Five faculty members at UC Santa Barbara have been awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.The new UC Santa Barbara AAAS Fellows are:

Guillermo C. Bazan, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, for design and realization of tandem catalysts for the production of polyolefins, and for the rational design of materials with desirable electro-optical properties.

Barbara Herr Harthorn, associate professor of women’s studies and director of the Center for Nanotechnnology in Society, for contributions in bringing together scientists, social scientists, policy makers, and the general public to gain awareness and understanding of the risks and opportunities in science and technology.

Ken C. Macdonald, professor of marine geophysics and Earth science, for fundamental contributions to the understanding of the tectonics of the world-encircling mid-ocean ridge system and the construction and evolution of oceanic crust.

John M. Melack, professor of ecology, evolution and marine biology and associate dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, for internationally recognized research on the inherently interdisciplinary topics of limnology and watershed-level biogeochemical cycles, in high mountains, saline lakes, and Amazon wetlands.

Jeffrey D. Richman, professor of physics, for contributions to the field of elementary particle physics, particularly for experiments exploring the physics of heavy quarks and the source of matter-antimatter asymmetry.

Currently, there are three technologies developed by Dr. Bazan’s research group that are available for licensing:

- UC Case 2000-395 “SOLUBLE TETRAHEDRAL COMPOUNDS FOR USE IN ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICES”
http://www.industry.ucsb.edu/technologies/details/2000-395

- UC Case 2003-157 “BINAPHTHOL BASED CHROMOPHORES FOR THE FABRICATION OF BLUE ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES”
US Patent Application Number 10/759,505

- UC Case 2003-545 “BRIGHTER ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES”
http://www.industry.ucsb.edu/technologies/details/2003-545

For more information about the above technologies, please contact Franco Caporale at 805-893-2073 or caporale@research.ucsb.edu

AmberWave Systems, a New Hampshire-based firm developing advanced technologies for semiconductor manufacturing, said Thursday that it has licensed technology from The University of California, Santa Barbara,. The licensing agreement covers material science research in the field of mesoporous materials, which are being used to develop fuel cells, high-performance batteris, and ultracapacitors. Financial terms of the licensing agreement were not disclosed. The technology is based on research in the school’s Department of Chemical Engineering, which was co-invented by Professor Brad Chmelka at UCSB.

Dr. Chemelka’s group is currently focused on the fabrication and functions of new catalysts, adsorbents, porous ceramics, and heterogeneous polymers. They also have a broad interest in heterogeneous solids, whose sizable variations in local ordering and dynamics have pronounced influences on the adsorption, reaction, optical, or mechanical properties of these material.

Source: www.socaltech.com (October 5, 2007)