First Look at How Individual Staphylococcus Cells Adhere to Nanostructures...
A team of researchers led by Berkeley Lab scientists have explored how individual Staphylococcus cells glom onto metallic nanostructures of various shapes and sizes that are not much bigger than the...
View ArticlePromising News for Solar Fuels from Berkeley Lab Researchers at JCAP
A JCAP study shows that nearly 90-percent of the electrons generated by a semiconductor/cobaloxime hybrid catalyst designed to store solar energy in hydrogen are being stored in their intended target...
View ArticleBright Future for Protein Nanoprobes
Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry have discovered surprising new rules for creating ultra-bright light-emitting crystals that are less than 10 nanometers in diameter. These ultra-tiny...
View ArticleDiscovery of New Semiconductor Holds Promise for 2D Physics and Electronics
Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry have discovered a unique new two-dimensional semiconductor, rhenium disulfide, that behaves electronically as if it were a 2D monolayer even as a 3D bulk...
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Berkeley Lab Develops Nanoscope to Probe Chemistry on the Molecular Scale
For years, scientists have had an itch they couldn’t scratch. Even with the best microscopes and spectrometers, it’s been difficult to study and identify molecules at the so-called mesoscale, a region...
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Unexpected Water Explains Surface Chemistry of Nanocrystals
Danylo Zherebetskyy and his colleagues at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) found unexpected traces of water in semiconducting nanocrystals. The water...
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2D Transistors Promise a Faster Electronics Future
Berkeley Lab researchers fabricated the first fully 2D field-effect transistor from layers of molybdenum disulfide, hexagonal boron nitride and graphene held together by van der Waals bonding. Faster...
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Manipulating and Detecting Ultrahigh Frequency Sound Waves
Gold plasmonic nanostructures shaped like Swiss-crosses can convert laser light into ultrahigh frequency (10GHz) sound waves. An advance has been achieved towards next generation ultrasonic imaging...
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Dynamic Spectroscopy Duo
2D-EV spectral data tells researchers how photoexcitation of a molecular system affects the coupling of electronic and nuclear vibrations that is essential to understanding how the system functions....
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Berkeley Lab Wins Three 2014 R&D 100 Awards
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has won three 2014 R&D 100 awards. This year’s winners include a fast way to analyze the chemical...
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Competition for Graphene
Illustration of a MoS2/WS2 heterostructure with a MoS2 monolayer lying on top of a WS2 monolayer. Electrons and holes created by light are shown to separate into different layers. (Image courtesy of...
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On the Road to Artificial Photosynthesis
This TEM shows gold–copper bimetallic nanoparticles used as catalysts for the reduction of carbon dioxide, a key reaction for artificial photosynthesis. The excessive atmospheric carbon dioxide that is...
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Lord of the Microrings
Schematic of a PT symmetry microring laser cavity that provides single-mode lasing on demand. A significant breakthrough in laser technology has been reported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s...
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A Cage Made of Proteins, Designed With Help From the Advanced Light Source
Scientists have designed a hollow, cube-shaped protein cage that has the potential to be a useful material for nanomedicine and other applications. Its crystal structure, shown here, was optimized at...
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From the Lab to Your Digital Device, Quantum Dots Have Made Quantum Leaps
Outside his career as a noted nanochemist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) director Paul Alivisatos is an avid photographer. To show off his photos, his preferred device is a...
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New Design Tool for Metamaterials
Confocal microscopy confirmed that the nonlinear optical properties of metamaterials can be predicted using atheory about light passing through nanostructures. Metamaterials – artificial nanostructures...
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Bacterial Armor Holds Clues for Self-Assembling Nanostructures
Many bacteria and archaea encase themselves within a self-assembling protective shell of S-layer proteins, like chainmail armor. The process is a model for the self-assembly of 2D and 3D organic and...
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On the Road to Spin-orbitronics
These schematics of magnetic domain walls in perpendicularly magnetized thin films show (a) left-handed and (b) right-handed Neel-type walls; and (c) left-handed and (d) right-handed Bloch-type walls....
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Major Advance in Artificial Photosynthesis Poses Win/Win for the Environment
A major advance in artificial photosynthesis poses win/win for the environment – using sequestered CO2 for green chemistry, including renewable fuel production. (Photo by Caitlin Givens) A potentially...
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Opening a New Route to Photonics
In this adiabatic elimination scheme, the movement of light through two outer nanoscale waveguides is controlled via a “dark” middle waveguide that does not accumulate any light. (Image by Zhosia...
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