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Darleane Hoffman and Gabor Somorjai Receive the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award

Collage of two images. From left: Darleane Hoffman, Gabor Somorjai.

Dimitri Argyriou Named Next Director of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source

Person with white hair wearing glasses and a white collared shirt smiles for a photo in front of a white and black building.

A Day in the Half-Life

Illustration depicting a three-sectioned recycling sign surrounding a scene of two recycling bins with recyclables at varying states of decay.

Electric Vehicle Batteries Could Get Big Boost With New Polymer Coating

Illustration of a blue electric vehicle with light streaming from it against a black background.

On the Road to Better Solid-State Batteries

Scanning transmission electron microscope images reveal the elemental distribution in a “disordered” solid electrolyte.

How a Record-Breaking Copper Catalyst Converts CO2 Into Liquid Fuels

Artist’s rendering of a copper nanoparticle life cycle during CO2 electrolysis: Copper nanoparticles (left) combine into larger metallic copper “nanograins” (right) within seconds of the electrochemical reaction, reducing CO2 into new multicarbon products.

New Compound That Withstands Extreme Heat and Electricity Could Lead to Next-Generation Energy Storage Devices

A new type of polysulfate compound can be used to make polymer film capacitors that store and discharge high density of electrical energy while tolerating heat and electric fields beyond the limits of existing polymer film capacitors.

Microscopy Images Could Lead to New Ways to Control Excitons for Quantum Computing

This electron microscopy-derived composite image shows excitons in green. The moiré unit cell outlined in the lower right of the exciton map is about 8 nanometers in size.

Rinse and Repeat: An Easy New Way to Recycle Batteries is Here

Two hands with blue gloves are golding tubes in a lab setting. One tube is filled with a piece of copper that has been cleaned of other components and the other with the alkaline solution used to dissolve the quick-release battery binder

Electronic Bridge Allows Rapid Energy Sharing Between Semiconductors

Artistic depiction of electron transfer driven by an ultrashort laser pulse, across an interface between two atomically-thin materials.

The Donnan Potential, Revealed at Last

A scientist handles a large scientific instrument in the Advanced Light Source.

Say Hello to the Toughest Material on Earth

A black and white microscopy image of the material; it looks like zoomed in scratches on a hard surface on the left, then the same image in vivid multicolor on the right.