Following an international search, Robert Kostecki has been appointed director of the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division in the Energy Technologies Area at Berkeley Lab.
Berkeley Lab Names Robert Kostecki Director of the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division
News Release By Kiran Julin •
The Beauty of Imperfections: Linking Atomic Defects to 2D Materials’ Electronic Properties
Feature Story Theresa Duque •
Scientists at Berkeley Lab have revealed how atomic defects emerge in TMDs (transition metal dichalcogenides), and how those defects shape the 2D material’s electronic properties. Their findings could provide a versatile yet targeted platform for designing 2D materials for quantum information science.
Scientists Explore Egyptian Mummy Bones With X-Rays and Infrared Light to Gain New Insight on Ancient Life
News Release Glenn Roberts Jr. •
Experiments at Berkeley Lab are casting a new light on Egyptian soil and ancient mummified bone samples that could provide a richer understanding of daily life and environmental conditions thousands of years ago.
Machine Learning Enhances Light-Beam Performance at the Advanced Light Source
News Release Glenn Roberts Jr. •
A team of researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley has successfully demonstrated how machine-learning tools can improve the stability of light beams’ size for science experiments at a synchrotron light source via adjustments that largely cancel out unwanted fluctuations.
Go With the Flow: Scientists Design Better Batteries for a Renewable Energy Grid
News Release Theresa Duque •
Scientists at Berkeley Lab have designed an affordable ‘flow battery’ membrane that could accelerate renewable energy for the electrical grid.
A Game-Changing Test for Prion, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s Diseases is on the Horizon
News Release Aliyah Kovner •
A new test agent can easily and efficiently detect the misfolded protein aggregates that cause devastating neurological diseases in blood samples. The technology could lead to early diagnosis of prion, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s diseases for the first time.
World-Leading Microscopes Take Candid Snapshots of Atoms in Their ‘Neighborhoods’
Feature Story Theresa Duque •
Scientists at Berkeley Lab have demonstrated how a powerful electron microscopy technique can provide direct insight into the performance of any material – from strong metallic glass to flexible semiconducting films – by pinpointing specific atomic “neighborhoods.”
Going Cold: The Future of Electron Microscopy
Feature Story Media contact: Theresa Duque •
Berkeley Lab researchers are pushing the boundaries of electron microscopy by exploring the exciting new frontier of cold microscopes.
Gaming Protein Structures: X-Ray Studies Confirm Power of Crowdsourcing
Science Snapshots Glenn Roberts Jr. •
The unique ways in which proteins fold dictate their interplay with diseases and medicines, so understanding their twists and turns is key to designing effective drugs. While new drug design is serious work, discovering how proteins fold can be fun, too: A crowdsourcing game called Foldit allows players to try different fold configurations for points
New MOF Can Take On Toxic Sulfur Dioxide Gas
Science Snapshots Glenn Roberts Jr. •
An international team has developed a robust material that can selectively take in toxic sulfur dioxide gas at record concentrations and preserve it for use in chemical production.