Another Tool in the Nano Toolbox: Berkeley Lab Scientists Use Electron Beam...
Berkeley Lab scientists have developed a way to manipulate nanoparticles using an electron beam. They used an electron beam from a transmission electron microscope to trap gold nanoparticles and direct...
View ArticleLong Predicted Atomic Collapse State Observed in Graphene
Seventy years ago theorists predicted superlarge nuclei would exhibit a quantum-mechanical phenomenon known as “atomic collapse.” Recently materials scientists calculated that highly-charged impurities...
View ArticleSpeeding the Search for Better Methane Capture
Systematic in silico studies have identified several zeolite compounds that show technological promise for capturing methane, the main component of natural gas that can serve as an ally or an adversary...
View ArticleBold Move Forward in Molecular Analyses
New metrics for analyzing data from small angle scattering (SAS) experiments should dramatically improve the ability of scientists to study the structures of macromolecules such as proteins and...
View ArticleArtificial Forest for Solar Water-Splitting
Berkeley Lab researchers have created the first fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem. While “artificial leaf” is the popular term for such a system, the key to this success was an...
View ArticleWhirlpools on the Nanoscale Could Multiply Magnetic Memory
Research at the Advanced Light Source promises four-bit magnetic cells instead of the two-bit magnetic domains of standard magnetic memories. Magnetic vortices are whirlpools of magnetic field, in...
View ArticleBerkeley Lab Wins Eight 2013 R&D 100 Awards
A generator that uses a virus to convert mechanical energy to electricity and a new material that will boost power storage in rechargeable batteries by 30 percent are among eight inventions by Berkeley...
View ArticleTetrapod Quantum Dots Light the Way to Stronger Polymers
Berkeley Lab researchers have developed advanced opto-mechanical stress probes based on tetrapod quantum dots (tQDs) that allow precise measurement of the tensile strength of polymer fibers with...
View ArticleBerkeley Lab Researchers Discover Universal Law for Light Absorption in 2D...
Berkeley Lab researchers have demonstrated a universal law of light absorption for 2D semiconductors. This discovery not only provides new insight into the optical properties of 2D semiconductors and...
View ArticleNew Twist in the Graphene Story:
Berkeley Lab researchers, working at the Advanced Light Source, have discovered that in the making of bilayer graphene, a tiny structural twist arises that can lead to surprisingly strong changes in...
View ArticleSize Matters as Nanocrystals Go Through Phases
Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry have demonstrated that as metal nanocrystals go through phase transformations, size can make a much bigger difference than scientists previously believed.
View ArticleTaking a New Look at Carbon Nanotubes
Two of the biggest challenges in carbon nanotube research have been met with the development by Berkeley Lab researchers of a technique that can be used to identify the structure of an individual...
View ArticleRemembrances of Things Past: Berkeley Lab Researchers Discover Nanoscale...
Berkeley Lab researchers have discovered a way to introduce a shape memory effect in bismuth ferrite that is larger than any observed in a metal. This discovery opens the door to applications in a wide...
View ArticleSOFS Take to Water
Berkeley Lab researchers have unveiled the first two-dimensional SOFs – supramolecular organic frameworks - that self-assemble in solution, an important breakthrough that holds implications for sensing...
View ArticleA Micro-Muscular Break Through
Berkeley Lab researchers have demonstrated a micro-sized robotic torsional muscle/motor made from vanadium dioxide that for its size is a thousand times more powerful than a human muscle, able to...
View ArticleE-Whiskers: Berkeley Researchers Develop Highly Sensitive Tactile Sensors for...
Researchers with Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have created e-whiskers - highly sensitive tactile sensors made from carbon nanotubes and silver nanoparticles that should have a wide range of...
View ArticleCooling Microprocessors with Carbon Nanotubes
Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry have developed a "process friendly" technique to enable the cooling of microprocessor chips through the use of carbon nanotubes.
View ArticleCrossover Sound: Researchers Find Unambiguous Evidence for Coherent Phonons...
The first “unambiguous demonstration” of the coherent transport of phonons – atomic-scale sound waves – opens the door to improved thermoelectrics and possibly even phonon lasers.
View ArticleBig Step for Next-Generation Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers
Researchers at Berkeley and Argonne National Labs have discovered a highly promising new class of nanocatalysts for fuel cells and water-alkali electrolyzers that are an order of magnitude higher in...
View ArticleEvery Step You Take: Berkeley Lab Researchers Identify Key Intermediate Steps...
The first direct, temporally resolved observations of intermediate steps in water oxidation using cobalt oxide, an Earth-abundant solid catalyst, revealed kinetic bottlenecks whose elimination would...
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