• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  X-RAY STUDY RECASTS ROLE OF BATTERY MATERIAL FROM CATHODE TO CATALYST

  Wanli Yang, a senior scientist at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source, working on a resonant inelastic X-ray scattering system. Yang...

  Energy, Research, News Release, Top Story, Advanced Light Source, batteries, energy storage, materials, materials sciences

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  HYDROGEN OFFERS PROMISING FUTURE FOR LONG-HAUL TRUCKING INDUSTRY

  Due to dedicated and predictable travel routes, long-haul trucks require simpler and more concentrated refueling infrastructure. Interest...

  Fuel, Energy, Industrial, News Release, Energy Technologies, fuel cells, hydrogen, transportation

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  THE SPINTRONICS TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION COULD BE JUST A HOPFION AWAY

  Artist's drawing of characteristic 3D spin texture of a magnetic hopfion. Berkeley Lab scientists have created and observed 3D hopfions....

  Discovery, News Release, Top Story, Advanced Light Source, electron microscopy, electronics, materials sciences, Molecular Foundry, physics

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  THE INCREDIBLE BACTERIAL ‘HOMING MISSILES' THAT SCIENTISTS WANT TO HARNESS

  An artistic rendering of tailocins attached to a target bacteria. (Credit: iLexx/iStock and Aliyah Kovner/Berkeley Lab) Imagine there...

  Research, Protein, DNA, Virus, News Release, Top Story, bacteria, ENIGMA, genome, gut bacteria, medicine, microbiome, viruses

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  DESIGNING SELECTIVE MEMBRANES FOR BATTERIES USING A DRUG DISCOVERY TOOLBOX

  Illustration of caged lithium ions in a new polymer membrane for lithium batteries. Scientists at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry...

  Discovery, Fuel, Drug, Drugs, Energy, News Release, Top Story, batteries, battery, energy storage, Molecular Foundry

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  CENTURY-OLD PROBLEM SOLVED WITH FIRST-EVER 3D ATOMIC IMAGING OF AN AMORPHOUS SOLID

  At left, an experimental 3D atomic model of a metallic glass nanoparticle, 8 nanometers in diameter. Right: The 3D atomic packing of...

  Plastics, Physics, Chemistry, News Release, Top Story, materials, Molecular Foundry, nanoscience

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  THIS HYDROGEN FUEL MACHINE COULD BE THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SELF-IMPROVEMENT

  Guosong Zeng , a postdoctoral scholar, and Francesca Toma, a staff scientist, both in Berkeley Lab's Chemical Sciences Division, test...

  Science, Fuel, Chemicals, Chemical, Energy, News Release, Top Story, artificial photosynthesis, chemical sciences, energy storage, hydrogen, materials, Molecular Foundry

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  IN MEMORIAM: DAVID SHIRLEY, FORMER LABORATORY DIRECTOR

  David Shirley David Arthur Shirley, former director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of chemistry at the University...

  Chemistry, Science, News Release, David Shirley, Lab Director, Memoriam

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: SUBSTRATE EFFECTS ON 2D LAYERS

  Using ultraviolet light, researchers probed the electronic characteristics of a 2D semiconductor as the number of substrate layers...

  Research, General, Physics, Science Snapshots, Advanced Light Source, materials

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  TO SPEED DISCOVERY, INFRARED MICROSCOPY GOES ‘OFF THE GRID'

  Example of the tiling pattern used in scanning a C. elegans roundworm. The non-grid-based pattern gives the sampling algorithm greater...

  Research, Structural biology, Biology, Physics, Biologic, Biological, Discovery, Chemicals, Chemical, Science Snapshots, Advanced Light Source, biosciences, microscopy

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  X-RAY EXPERIMENTS, MACHINE LEARNING COULD TRIM YEARS OFF BATTERY R&D

  Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen is seen working inside the Battery Informatics Lab 1070 in the Arrillaga Science Center, Bldg. 57....

  Science, Research, Engineering, Chemical, Chemicals, R&D, Science Snapshots, Advanced Light Source, battery, machine learning

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  INDIA CAN BOOST CLEAN ENERGY AND DOUBLE ITS POWER SUPPLY BY 2030

  Highway and wind turbines in Tamil Nadu, India. India has ambitious scale-up plans for renewable energy over the next decade. India...

  Gas, Energy, Research, Fuel, Science, Science Snapshots, climate, Energy Technologies, Renewable Energy

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  CHARGED UP: SCIENTISTS FIND NEW PATHWAY TO HARNESSING THE SUN FOR A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE

  Caption: Credit: Study co-led by Berkeley Lab has unveiled an unknown pathway in a copper-phthalocyanine:fullerene material that turns...

  Energy, Research, Discovery, Fuel, Nature, Science Snapshots, chemical sciences, clean energy, climate, Renewable Energy

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  THIS ULTRATHIN SENSOR COULD SAVE YOUR LUNGS - AND THE CLIMATE

  The new 2D sensor is flexible and transparent, making the technology a likely candidate for wearable environmental-and-health-monitoring...

  Research, Energy, Gas, Fuel, Paper, Environmental, Health, Science Snapshots, materials, materials sciences, nanoscience, NERSC

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  CAMERON GEDDES APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF BERKELEY LAB'S ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY AND APPLIED PHYSICS DIVISION

  Cameron Geddes Following an international search , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has named Cameron Geddes, an award-winning...

  Applied, Science, Physics, Research, News Release

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  HOW MICROORGANISMS CAN HELP US GET TO NET NEGATIVE EMISSIONS

  Many of the common items we use in our everyday lives - from building materials to plastics to pharmaceuticals - are manufactured from...

  Plastics, Plants, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceuticals, Microbes, Fuel, Biofuels, Manufacturing, Gas, Microorganisms, Biofuel, Oil, Feature Story, Top Story, biosciences, negative emissions, Q&A

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  VIDEO: REVEALING THE NANO BIG BANG - SCIENTISTS OBSERVE THE FIRST MILLISECONDS OF CRYSTAL FORMATION

  Berkeley Lab scientists and collaborators took advantage of one of the best microscopes in the world - the TEAM I electron microscope...

  Research, Energy, News Release, electron microscopy, materials sciences, Molecular Foundry

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO BERKELIUM, CALIFORNIUM?

  Scientists at Berkeley Lab's predecessor, the UC Radiation Laboratory, discovered berkelium in 1949, and californium in 1950. Today,...

  Medicine, Chemicals, Chemical, Research, Energy, News Release, Top Story, cancer, chemical sciences, electron microscopy, materials sciences, medicine, Molecular Foundry, nuclear science, periodic table

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  MISSING BARYONS FOUND IN FAR-OUT REACHES OF GALACTIC HALOS

  A new study has found that a share of particles that has been challenging to locate is most likely sprinkled across the distant bounds...

  General, Energy, Research, News Release, Astrophysics & Cosmology, cosmology and astrophysics, dark energy, dark matter, particle physics, physics, Physics Division

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• By News Center   -   Apr 12, 2021

  COMMERCIAL TRUCK ELECTRIFICATION IS WITHIN REACH

  Electric long-haul trucks and fast-charging infrastructure offer a way towards zero-emissions commercial trucks. By Kiran Julin When...

  Research, Energy, News Release, Top Story, clean energy, Energy Technologies, transportation

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