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Overview of Physical Chemistry

The Physical Chemistry groups at UCLA lead some of the strongest research efforts in the nation aimed at understanding the physics underlying chemical phenomena. Our faculty explore a wide range of research problems in experimental, theoretical and materials chemistry. UCLA's physical chemists have a long-standing tradition of collegiality and enthusiasm for research, which has led to many collaborations between the different p-chem groups and fostered many joint projects, with particularly close ties between theory and experiment. Because of the diversity of the problems we study, the physical chemists at UCLA work closely not only with each other but also with scientists from a variety of disciplines, including organic chemists, biochemists, physicists and engineers. This plethora of collaborations, combined with the fact that the average physical chemistry group consists of six to eight students, gives UCLA physical chemistry students an unusually flexible and rich research experience characterized by close interaction with multiple faculty members.

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