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A Most Singular Nano-Imaging Technique
SINGLE uses in situ TEM imaging of platinum nanocrystals freely rotating in a graphene liquid cell to determine the 3D structures of individual colloidal nanoparticles. Just as proteins are one of the...
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At the American Chemical Society Meeting in Boston: Berkeley Lab’s Paul...
“Science is a dynamic environment so keep in mind when you pick a problem to study that the world can change and you’d better be prepared to change with it.” Paul Alivisatos Speaking at the 2015 “fall”...
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Nanocarriers May Carry New Hope for Brain Cancer Therapy:
Glioblastoma multiforme, a cancer of the brain also known as “octopus tumors,” is virtually inoperable, resistant to therapies, and always fatal, usually within 15 months of onset. Glioblastoma...
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The Artificial Materials That Came in From the Cold
SEM images of xz cross-sections perpendicular to the cold finger show that in conventional freeze-casting (A&D), nucleation produces a disordered layer of ceramic particles. Under bidirectional...
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2D Islands in Graphene Hold Promise for Future Device Fabrication
This AFM image shows 2D F4TCNQ islands on graphene/BN that could be used to modify the graphene for electronic applications. In what could prove to be a significant advance in the fabrication of...
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Paul Alivisatos Wins the National Medal of Science
Paul Alivisatos The White House has announced that Paul Alivisatos, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), award-winning chemist and internationally recognized authority...
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How to Train Your Bacterium
The bacterium Moorella thermoacetica is being used to perform photosynthesis in a hybrid artificial photosynthesis system for converting sunlight into valuable chemical products. Trainers of dogs,...
View ArticleA Nanoscale Look at Why a New Alloy is Amazingly Tough
Just in time for the icy grip of winter: A team of researchers led by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has identified several...
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Weaving a New Story for COFS and MOFs
COF-505 is the first 3D covalent organic framework to be made by weaving together helical organic threads, a fabrication technique that yields significant advantages in structural flexibility,...
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Scientists Take Key Step Toward Custom-made Nanoscale Chemical Factories
Scientists have for the first time reengineered a building block of a geometric nanocompartment that occurs naturally in bacteria. They introduced a metal binding site to its shell that will allow...
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‘Lasers Rewired’: Scientists Find a New Way to Make Nanowire Lasers
This nanowire, composed of cesium, lead and bromide (CsPbBr3), emits bright laser light after hit by a pulse from another laser source. The nanowire laser proved to be very stable, emitting laser light...
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New Form of Electron-beam Imaging Can See Elements that are ‘Invisible’ to...
Electrons can extend our view of microscopic objects well beyond what’s possible with visible light—all the way to the atomic scale. A popular method in electron microscopy for looking at tough,...
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Revealing the Fluctuations of Flexible DNA in 3-D
In a Berkeley Lab-led study, flexible double-helix DNA segments connected to gold nanoparticles are revealed from the 3-D density maps (purple and yellow) reconstructed from individual samples using a...
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Scientists Take a Major Leap Toward a ‘Perfect’ Quantum Metamaterial
The wavelike pattern at the top shows the accordion-like structure of a proposed quantum material—an artificial crystal made of light—that can trap atoms in regularly spaced nanoscale pockets. These...
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A New Spin on Quantum Computing: Scientists Train Electrons with Microwaves
From left, Berkeley Lab scientists Thomas Schenkel, Qing Ji and Peter Seidl at the NDCX-II (Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment II), which produces powerful ion beams. Researchers are exploring...
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New Graphene-Based System Could Help Us ‘See’ Electrical Signaling in Heart...
This photo shows the setup for a system known as CAGE (Critically coupled waveguide-Amplified Graphene Electric field imaging device) that is designed to precisely record the properties of faint...
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Chemistry on the Edge: Study Pinpoints Most Active Areas of Reactions on...
This illustration shows the setup for an experiment at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source that used infrared light (shown in red) and an atomic force microscope (middle and top) to study the local...
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For This Metal, Electricity Flows, But Not the Heat
There’s a known rule-breaker among materials, and a new discovery by an international team of scientists adds more evidence to back up the metal’s nonconformist reputation. According to a new study led...
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Scientists Determine Precise 3-D Location and Identity of All 23,000 Atoms in...
The atomic composition of an iron-platinum nanoparticle revealed. This video begins with an overview of the 3-D positions of individual atoms, with iron atoms in red and platinum atoms in blue. It...
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Berkeley Lab Scientists Discover New Atomically Layered, Thin Magnet
It may not seem like a material as thin as an atom could hide any surprises, but a research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)...
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