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		<title>Hydrogen from Acidic Water:</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/02/09/hydrogen-from-acidic-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A technique from Berkley Lab for creating a new molecule that structurally and chemically replicates the active part of the molybdenite catalyst paves the way for developing catalytic materials that can serve as effective low-cost alternatives to platinum for generating hydrogen gas from water.]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Assembling Nanorods:</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/02/01/self-assembling-nanorods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a relatively fast, easy and inexpensive technique for inducing nanorods to self-assemble into aligned and ordered macroscopic structures. This technique should enable more effective use of nanorods in solar cells, magnetic storage devices and sensors, and boost the electrical and mechanical properties of nanorod-polymer composites.]]></description>
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		<title>Bright Lights of Purity:</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/01/30/nanocrystal-luminescence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have discovered why a promising technique for making quantum dots and nanorods has so far been a disappointment. Better still, they’ve also discovered how to correct the problem.]]></description>
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		<title>Diamonds and Dust for Better Cement</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/12/12/diamonds-and-dust/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/12/12/diamonds-and-dust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source, scientists seeking ways to use cement more efficiently and reduce the carbon emissions associated with its manufacture have revealed new properties of the mineral tobermorite. Using x-ray-diffraction to probe the crystalline structure of Portland cement’s most important component, they squeezed the mineral in a diamond anvil cell to pressures equivalent to 100 miles deep in the Earth. ]]></description>
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		<title>Nanocrystals Go Bare:</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/12/08/nanocrystals-go-bare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry have discovered a universal technique for stripping nanocrystals of tether-like molecules that pose as obstacles for their integration into devices. These findings could provide scientists with a clean slate for developing new nanocrystal-based technologies for energy storage, photovoltaics, smart windows, solar fuels and light-emitting diodes. ]]></description>
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		<title>On the Road to Plasmonics With Silver Polyhedral Nanocrystals</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/11/22/silver-polyhedral-nanocrystals/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/11/22/silver-polyhedral-nanocrystals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers may have opened the door to a simpler approach for the fabrication of plasmonic materials – one of the hottest new fields in high tech - by inducing polyhedral-shaped silver nanocrystals to self-assemble into three-dimensional millimeter-sized supercrystals of the highest possible density.]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Researchers Ink Nanostructures with Tiny ‘Soldering Iron’</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/11/07/inking-nanostructures-with-tiny-%e2%80%98soldering-iron%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry have shed light on the role of temperature in controlling a fabrication technique for drawing chemical surface patterns as small as 20 nanometers.  This technique could provide an inexpensive, fast route to growing and patterning a wide variety of materials on surfaces to build electrical circuits and chemical sensors, or study how pharmaceuticals bind to proteins and viruses.]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Research Sparks Record-Breaking Solar Cell Performances</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/11/07/record-breaking-solar-cell-performances/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/11/07/record-breaking-solar-cell-performances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theoretical research by Berkeley Lab scientists has led to record-breaking efficiencies in solar cells. The research showed that, contrary to conventional scientific wisdom, the key to solar cell efficiency is not absorbing more photons but emitting more photons.

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		<title>Shaken, not Stirred: Berkeley Lab Scientists Spy Molecular Maneuvers</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/10/17/shaken-not-stirred/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/10/17/shaken-not-stirred/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry like their solutions shaken, not stirred. In this way they have been able to engineer two-dimensional, biomimetic nanosheets with atomic precision for a wide range of applications,  including  the creation of platforms for sensing molecules, and membranes for filtration. To enable this self-assembly of 2D nanosheets they have developed a programmable device to rock the vial of solutions. They call it a “SheetRocker.”]]></description>
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		<title>Two Berkeley Lab Scientists Win 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/09/26/pecase-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/09/26/pecase-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has named two Berkeley Lab researchers, Christian Bauer of the Physics Division and Feng Wang of the Materials Sciences Division, among the 13 Department of Energy scientists who are recipients of the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This year’s 94 winners were nominated by 14 government agencies. In addition to a plaque and citation, the awards continue research funding for up to five years and are considered the U.S. government’s highest honor to young scientists. ]]></description>
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		<title>An Electronic Bucket Brigade Could Boost Solar Cell Voltages</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/09/15/electronic-bucket-brigade/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/09/15/electronic-bucket-brigade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some ferroelectric materials can develop extremely high voltages when light falls on them, which might greatly improve solar cells if scientists could figure out how they do it. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have solved the mystery for one ferroelectric, bismuth ferrite, revealing a principle that should apply to other materials too. The secret is an electronic “bucket brigade” that passes electrons stepwise from one electrically polarized region to the next. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Whole New Light on Graphene Metamaterials</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/09/04/graphene-thz/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/09/04/graphene-thz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Invisible terahertz light can detect explosives, image drug structures, and pinpoint skin cancer, but practical tools for using it are scarce. Now Berkeley Lab scientists have demonstrated a device made of graphene microribbons that strongly responds to terahertz light by exciting the collective electron oscillations known as plasmons. The device can be tuned with exquisite precision by varying the width of the graphene ribbons and controlling electron density. ]]></description>
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		<title>Down to the Wire: Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop Inexpensive Technique for Making High Quality Nanowire Solar Cells</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/08/31/down-to-the-wire-berkeley-lab-researchers-develop-inexpensive-technique-for-making-high-quality-nanowire-solar-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a solution-based technique for fabricating core/shell nanowire solar cells using the semiconductors cadmium sulfide for the core and copper sulfide for the shell. These inexpensive and easy-to-make nanowire solar cells hold great promise for future solar cell technology.]]></description>
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		<title>The Brittleness of Aging Bones – More than a Loss of Bone Mass</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/08/29/the-brittleness-of-aging-bones-%e2%80%93-more-than-a-loss-of-bone-mass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Berkeley Lab study shows that at microscopic dimensions, the age-related loss of bone quality can be every bit as important as the loss of quantity in the susceptibility of bone to fracturing. While medical treatments to date have focused on age-related loss of bone mass, the age-related loss of bone quality is an independent factor.


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		<title>Shooting light a curve:</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/08/11/shooting-light-a-curve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paving the way for fast-as-light, ultra-compact communication systems and optoelectronic devices, Berkeley Lab scientists have developed a technique for steering the curved path of plasmonic Airy beams – combinations of laser light and quasi-particles called surface plasmon polaritons.]]></description>
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		<title>The Nanoscale Secret to Stronger Alloys</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/08/07/core-shell-nano/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/08/07/core-shell-nano/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As long ago as the Wright Brothers’ first airplane engine, metallurgists were using nanoparticles to make strong aluminum alloys – although they didn’t realize it, because scientific understanding is only decades old. Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s National Center for Electron Microscopy have now solved the mystery of one of the most promising alloys ever for strength, hardness, lightness, and resistance to corrosion and heat, one that includes core-shell nanoparticles all nearly the same size. ]]></description>
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		<title>An Unexpected Clue to Thermopower Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/07/28/an-unexpected-clue-to-thermopower-efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab scientists and their colleagues have discovered a new relation among electric and magnetic fields and differences in temperature, which can form swirling vortices of electrons and holes in semiconductor devices and emit sideways magnetic fields. Understanding the unusual new effect may lead to more efficient thermoelectric devices, which convert heat into electricity or electricity into heat.]]></description>
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		<title>Graphene Nanocomposite a Bridge to Better Batteries</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/07/27/graphene-sandwich/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/07/27/graphene-sandwich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have built a high-capacity energy storage device for lithium ion batteries by constructing a unique nanoscale sandwich of graphene and tin. The device is engineered to improve electrochemical cycling of the battery, which reduces charging time and allows repeated recharging without degrading battery performance. ]]></description>
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		<title>Graphene Gives up More of its Secrets</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/07/14/graphene-secrets/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/07/14/graphene-secrets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab scientists have used the Advanced Light Source's beamline 12.0.1 to investigate theories about the electronic structure of graphene never before tested by experiment. They found that graphene’s semimetallic behavior includes very long-range interactions among electrons, plus other unusual properties, confirming that graphene is every bit as strange as expected – perhaps even more so.  ]]></description>
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		<title>A Manganite Changes its Stripes</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/07/14/manganite-stripes/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/07/14/manganite-stripes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manganites that exhibit colossal magnetoresistance and well-known high-temperature superconductors are among the materials that show their stripes - regions where electrical charges concentrate. Until now, only static stripes have been seen. At the Advanced Light Source’s beamline 12.0.1, scientists have discovered a manganite whose stripes form or fall apart depending on the temperature, simultaneously giving rise to colossal changes in electrical conductivity.   ]]></description>
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		<title>Nanocrystal Transformers</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/07/08/nanocrystal-transformers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using the TEAM 0.5 microscope, Berkeley Lab researchers recorded the first direct observation of structural transformations within a single nanocrystal of copper sulfide. The results break new ground for the design of novel materials that will serve next-generation energy storage batteries and solar energy harvesting devices.]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Researchers Apply NMR/MRI to Microfluidic Chromatography</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/07/06/nmrmri-to-chromatography/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/07/06/nmrmri-to-chromatography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newscenter.lbl.gov/?p=16554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By pairing an R&#038;D 100 award-winning remote-detection version of NMR/MRI technology with a unique version of chromatography specifically designed for microfluidic chips, Berkeley Lab researchers have opened the door to a portable system for highly sensitive multi-dimensional chemical analysis that would be impractical if not impossible with conventional technologies.]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Kasha’s Rule:</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/07/01/breaking-kasha%e2%80%99s-rule/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/07/01/breaking-kasha%e2%80%99s-rule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers created tetrapod molecules of semiconductor nanocrystals and watched them break a fundamental principle of photoluminescence known as “Kasha’s rule.” The discovery holds promise for multi-color light emission technologies, including LEDs.

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		<title>Berkeley Scientists Pioneer Nanoscale Nuclear Materials Testing Capability</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/06/26/nanoscale-nuclear-testing/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/06/26/nanoscale-nuclear-testing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electron microscopy with mechanical testing in situ has allowed Berkeley Lab scientists and their colleagues at UC Berkeley and Los Alamos to devise a technique for testing irradiated materials on the nanoscale that yields results on the macroscale. The technique could accelerate new materials for nuclear power applications and improve testing of nuclear power plants already in service.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Wins Two R&amp;D 100 Awards for 2011</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/06/22/berkeley-lab-wins-two-rd-100-awards-for-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/06/22/berkeley-lab-wins-two-rd-100-awards-for-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers won two of the 2011 R&#038;D 100 awards, also known as the "Oscars of Innovation." The winning inventions were a nanostructured antifogging technology for glass, and a new version of MRI technology – called  Magnetic Resonance Microarray Imaging - that delivers results a million times faster than conventional MRI.

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		<title>Boron Nitride is a Promising Path to Practical Graphene Devices</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/05/27/graphene-bn/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/05/27/graphene-bn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 22:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graphene, the two-dimensional honeycomb of carbon just one atom thick, is so sensitive to its environment that its remarkable electronic properties can be wrecked by interference from nearby materials. If graphene devices are ever to become practical, finding good substrates on which to mount graphene is critical. A team of researchers from Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have shown why boron nitride may come closest yet to the ideal. ]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Magnetic Resonance With No Magnets</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/05/17/nmr-no-magnets/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/05/17/nmr-no-magnets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 19:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a powerful tool for chemical analysis and, in the form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), an indispensable technique for medical diagnosis. But its uses have been limited by the need for strong magnetic fields and big, expensive, superconducting magnets. Now Berkeley Lab scientists and their colleagues have demonstrated that they can do NMR in a zero magnetic field without using any magnets at all.]]></description>
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		<title>Sharpening the Nanofocus: Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Nanoantenna to Enhance Plasmonic Sensing</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/05/17/nanoantenna-to-enhance-plasmonic-sensing/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/05/17/nanoantenna-to-enhance-plasmonic-sensing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 18:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have developed an antenna-enhanced plasmonic sensing technique for the observation of single catalytic processes in nanoreactors, or the optical detection of low concentrations of biochemical agents and gases.]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Researchers Win Four Early Career Awards</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/05/11/early-career-awards/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/05/11/early-career-awards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 14:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have won four DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program awards, in the second year of the planned annual award program. The five-year, $2.5 million awards are intended to support young scientists in the formative stages of their careers. The winners were chosen from over a thousand applicants by outside scientific experts. ]]></description>
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		<title>Electronic Life on the Edge</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/05/08/gnr-edges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 17:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long before anyone had actually isolated graphene, a honeycomb lattice of carbon just one atom thick, theorists were predicting that narrow ribbons of graphene would display extraordinary electronic, spintronic, and optical properties along their edges, including semiconductor-like band gaps that sheet graphene lacks. Now Berkeley Lab scientists and their colleagues have used novel techniques to confirm that these nanoribbon "edge states" exist and hold great potential for nanoscale devices. ]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Scientists Shed Light on Mystery of Raman Signal Enhancement</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/04/21/mystery-of-raman-signal-enhancement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab scientists at the Molecular Foundry have unraveled the mystery behind surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy - a detection method that can sense the presence of individual molecules and provide scientists with unique molecular fingerprints. ]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Researchers Make First Perovskite-based Superlens for the Infrared</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/03/29/perovskite-based-superlens-for-the-infrared/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have fabricated superlenses from perovskite oxides that are ideal for capturing light in the mid-infrared range, opening the door to highly sensitive biomedical detection and imaging. It may also be possible to turn the superlensing effect on/off, opening the door to highly dense data writing and storage.]]></description>
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		<title>Closing in on the Pseudogap</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/03/24/pseudogap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a three-pronged attack on one of the stubbornest problems in materials sciences, groups from Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, SLAC, and Stanford have produced the strongest evidence yet that the mysterious pseudogap, hallmark of high-temperature superconductors, is not a gradual transition to the superconducting phase, as long supposed, but instead is a unique and hitherto unknown phase of matter.]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Scientists Control Light Scattering in Graphene</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/03/16/control-scattering-graphene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have learned to control the quantum pathways that determine how light scatters in graphene. As a sheet of carbon just a single atom thick, graphene's extraordinary crystalline structure gives rise to unique electronic and optical properties. Controlling light scattering not only provides a new tool for studying graphene but points to practical applications for managing light and electronic states in graphene nanodevices.]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing the Light: Berkeley Lab Scientists Bring Plasmonic Nanofields Into Focus</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/02/03/plasmonic-nanofields-into-focus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab scientists have engineered an innovative imaging technique to visualize plasmonic fields with nanoscale resolution. This technique, which harnesses light within a bowtie-shaped structure, could be used to measure the performance of plasmonic devices.]]></description>
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		<title>A Dash of Disorder Yields a Very Efficient Photocatalyst</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/01/28/photocatalyst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little disorder goes a long way, especially when it comes to harnessing the sun’s energy. Berkeley Lab scientists jumbled the atomic structure of the surface layer of titanium dioxide nanocrystals, creating a catalyst that is both long lasting and effective in collecting solar energy to help extract hydrogen from water.]]></description>
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		<title>The Practical Full-Spectrum Solar Cell Comes Closer</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/01/24/practical-full-spectrum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab has long pioneered new materials and new methods for making solar cells that can convert the full spectrum of sunlight to electrical energy. Now Berkeley Lab researchers and their colleagues have demonstrated a new solar cell design that not only captures the sun’s full spectrum, it is also practical to make using common manufacturing techniques in the semiconductor industry. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hotspots Tamed by BEAST – Secrets of Mysterious Metal Hotspots Uncovered by New Single Molecule Imaging Technique</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/01/19/hotspots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The secrets behind the mysterious nano-sized electromagnetic “hotspots” that appear on metal surfaces under a light are being revealed with the help of a BEAST. The results hold promise for solar energy and chemical sensing among other technologies.


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		<title>Polymer Membranes with Molecular-sized Channels That Assemble Themselves</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/01/11/membranes-with-molecular-channels-assemble-themselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley researchers have developed a solution-based method for inducing polymer membranes with molecular-sized channels to assemble themselves. Fully compatible with commercial membrane-fabrication, this new technique is believed to be the first example of organic nanotubes fabricated into a functional membrane over macroscopic distances.

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		<title>New Glass Tops Steel in Strength and Toughness</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/01/10/new-glass-tops-steel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass, demonstrating a strength and toughness beyond that of steel or any other known material, has been developed and tested by a collaboration of researchers with Berkeley Lab and Caltech.]]></description>
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