International. Many scientific discoveries and patent applications have resulted from more than 25 ongoing research projects since West Coast universities and BASF established the California Research Alliance (CARA) by BASF in 2014.
This multidisciplinary collaboration led by the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) conducts research on new inorganic and other advanced materials, biosciences and their applications.
Members of these universities, guest professors, students and BASF gathered for an Anniversary Symposium, April 24-25, 2017, at the University of California, Berkeley, to address recent advances in research. During the event, leaders from UC Berkeley and BASF announced a five-year extension of CARA's collaboration at a signing ceremony.
For the past three years, BASF experts and UC Berkeley researchers; Stanford, UC Davis; UC Santa Barbara; CU San Francisco; And UC Los Angeles, have worked together on multiple research projects to make new materials, advance the functionality and performance of materials, and develop methods and tools to adapt the interaction between chemicals and biological systems.
A recent breakthrough was achieved by a joint team active in the field of catalysis. The researchers developed a synthesis of intermetallic binary nanoparticles from a combination of noble and base metals, which have the potential to be used in catalysis applications.
