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Category: Materials Sciences

A Sponge to Soak Up Carbon Dioxide in the Air

stock photo of coal-fired power plant

A Day in the Half-Life

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9 Berkeley Lab Scientists Named 2020 AAAS Fellows

Photos - Berkeley Lab’s nine 2020 AAAS Fellows: (top row, from left to right) Wibe A. “Bert” de Jong, Spencer R. Klein, Sanjay Kumar, Mary E. Maxon, (bottom row, left to right) Esmond G. Ng, John Douglas Owens, Len Pennacchio, Robert Oliver Ritchie, and Peidong Yang.

A Closer Look at Water-Splitting’s Solar Fuel Potential

Francesca Toma (right) and Johanna Eichhorn developed a special technique using an atomic force microscope at Berkeley Lab’s JCAP laboratory to capture images of thin-film bismuth vanadate at the nanoscale to understand how a material’s properties can affect its performance in an artificial photosynthesis device. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab)

Berkeley Lab Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards

Early Career 2020

New MOF Can Take On Toxic Sulfur Dioxide Gas

Scientists Take a Deep Dive Into the Imperfect World of 2D Materials

Image - This image, taken at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, shows an illustration of the atomic structure of a 2D material called tungsten disulfide. Tungsten atoms are shown in blue and sulfur atoms are shown in yellow. The background shows groupings of flakes of the material (dark gray) grown by a process called chemical vapor deposition on a titanium dioxide layer (light gray). (Credit: Katherine Cochrane/Berkeley Lab)

In Pursuit of Perfect Chemistry: A Vision for Unifying Catalysis

Image - In a 2016 study, Berkeley Lab scientists used the bacterium Moorella thermoacetica in a hybrid artificial photosynthesis system for converting sunlight into valuable chemical products. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Copper Catalyst Yields High Efficiency CO2-to-Fuels Conversion

Scientists Fine-Tune System to Create ‘Syngas’ from CO2

New Discovery Could Better Predict How Semiconductors Weather Abuse

On the Path Toward Bionic Enzymes