Berkeley Lab researchers have developed simple recipes to whip up ‘cage-like’ container structures for the creation of complex molecular machines that can be programmed to rotate, switch and perform mechanical work.

Berkeley researchers have taken a major step towards a true invisibility device with the creation of a carpet cloak from nanostructured silicon that conceals the presence of objects placed under it from optical detection. This new cloak suggests that true invisibility materials are within reach.

Berkeley Lab researchers at The Molecular Foundry were part of an international team that created a silicon photonic crystal-based device which behaves like a superlens and provides the first experimental demonstration of optical antimatter.

Berkeley Lab scientists delivered more than 100 presentations at the American Chemical Society’s Spring 2009 national meeting in Salt Lake City which took place March 22-29, 2009