Wanli Yang, a senior scientist at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source, working on a resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) system. Yang adapted the RIXS technique for a recent Joule study on lithium-rich battery materials. (Credit: Wanli Yang/Berkeley …
Due to dedicated and predictable travel routes, long-haul trucks require simpler and more concentrated refueling infrastructure. (Credit: iStock) Interest in hydrogen fuel cells as a sustainable source of clean energy is on the rise globally, and hydrogen …
Artist’s drawing of characteristic 3D spin texture of a magnetic hopfion. Berkeley Lab scientists have created and observed 3D hopfions. The discovery could advance spintronics memory devices. (Credit: Peter Fischer and Frances Hellman/Berkeley Lab) …
Illustration of caged lithium ions in a new polymer membrane for lithium batteries. Scientists at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry used a drug-discovery toolbox to design the selective membranes. The technology could enable more efficient flows in …
An artistic rendering of tailocins attached to a target bacteria. (Credit: iLexx/iStock and Aliyah Kovner/Berkeley Lab) Imagine there are arrows that are lethal when fired on your enemies yet harmless if they fall on your friends. It’s easy to see how …
At left, an experimental 3D atomic model of a metallic glass nanoparticle, 8 nanometers in diameter. Right: The 3D atomic packing of a supercluster within the structure. Differently colored balls represent different types of atoms. Berkeley Lab scientists’ …
Guosong Zeng (left), a postdoctoral scholar, and Francesca Toma, a staff scientist, both in Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division, test an artificial photosynthesis device made of gallium nitride. Toma and Zeng discovered that the device, rather than …
David Shirley David Arthur Shirley, former director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, died on March 29, 2021, of age-related illness. Shirley was a pioneer of …
Using ultraviolet light, researchers probed the electronic characteristics of a 2D semiconductor (purple) as the number of substrate layers (green) increased. In the data maps, red circles mark an electronic feature that diminished as substrate layers were …
Science Snapshots Lori Tamura • April 2, 2021 Example of the tiling pattern used in scanning a C. elegans roundworm. The non-grid-based pattern gives the sampling algorithm greater flexibility to quickly zero in on areas of interest. (Credit: Elizabeth …
Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen is seen working inside the Battery Informatics Lab 1070 in the Arrillaga Science Center, Bldg. 57. (Jacqueline Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) – By Glenn Roberts Jr. An X-ray instrument at Berkeley Lab …
Highway and wind turbines in Tamil Nadu, India. India has ambitious scale-up plans for renewable energy over the next decade. (Credit: iStock) India has set ambitious targets for renewable power, with plans to quintuple its current wind and solar energy …
Caption: Credit: Study co-led by Berkeley Lab has unveiled an unknown pathway in a copper-phthalocyanine:fullerene material that turns up to 22% of absorbed infrared photons into separate charges. (Credit: Oliver Gessner/Berkeley Lab and Friedrich Roth/ …
The new 2D sensor is flexible and transparent, making the technology a likely candidate for wearable environmental-and-health-monitoring sensors. (Credit: Shutterstock/Kaspars Grinvalds) Nitrogen dioxide, an air pollutant emitted by fossil fuel-powered …
Cameron Geddes (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) Following an international search, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has named Cameron Geddes, an award-winning scientist who is internationally known for his work on laser-plasma …
Many of the common items we use in our everyday lives – from building materials to plastics to pharmaceuticals – are manufactured from fossil fuels. To reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, society has increasingly tried …
Berkeley Lab scientists and collaborators took advantage of one of the best microscopes in the world – the TEAM I electron microscope at the Molecular Foundry – to watch how individual gold atoms organized themselves into crystals on top of graphene. The …
Scientists at Berkeley Lab’s predecessor, the UC Radiation Laboratory, discovered berkelium in 1949, and californium in 1950. Today, Berkeley Lab scientists are using state-of-the-art instruments at the Molecular Foundry to better understand how actinides …
A new study has found that a share of particles that has been challenging to locate is most likely sprinkled across the distant bounds of groups of galaxy halos. The study found some of these particles of baryonic matter are located up to 6 million light- …
Electric long-haul trucks and fast-charging infrastructure offer a way towards zero-emissions commercial trucks. (Credit: Chesky_W/iStock) By Kiran Julin When it comes to electric vehicles, particularly for heavy-duty trucks, the limitations of battery …
