A team of researchers co-led by Berkeley Lab has observed unusually long-lived wavelike electrons called “plasmons” in a new class of electronically conducting material. Plasmons are important for determining the optical and electronic properties of metals for the development of new sensors and communication devices.
Making Quantum ‘Waves’ in Ultrathin Materials
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Making a Material World Better, Faster Now: Q&A With Materials Project Director Kristin Persson
Feature Story Theresa Duque •
Berkeley Lab’s Kristin Persson shares her thoughts on what inspired her to launch the Materials Project online database, the future of materials research and machine learning, and how she found her own way into a STEM career.
2 Berkeley Lab Scientists, Visiting Scientist Elected as New Members of Honorary Society
News Release Glenn Roberts Jr. •
Two Berkeley Lab scientists and a visiting scientist are among the newest elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences – a 240-year-old honorary society that recognizes accomplished scholars, scientists and artists in academia, the humanities, arts, business, and government.
Royal Society Elects Berkeley Lab Physicist Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Feature Story Theresa Duque •
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, senior faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division and professor of physics and materials science & engineering at UC Berkeley, has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence based in London, England.
Machine Learning Tool Could Provide Unexpected Scientific Insights into COVID-19
News Release Julie Chao •
A team of materials scientists at Berkeley Lab – scientists who normally spend their time researching things like high-performance materials for thermoelectrics or battery cathodes – have built a text-mining tool in record time to help the global scientific community synthesize the mountain of scientific literature on COVID-19 being generated every day.
Seeing ‘Under the Hood’ in Batteries
News Release Glenn Roberts Jr. •
A high-sensitivity X-ray technique at Berkeley Lab is attracting a growing group of scientists because it provides a deep, precise dive into battery chemistry.
Staff at Berkeley Lab’s X-Ray Facility Mobilize to Support COVID-19-Related Research
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Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source X-ray facility has been recalled to action to support research related to COVID-19, the coronavirus disease that has already infected about 2 million people around the world.
Scientists Capture 3D Images of Nanoparticles, Atom by Atom, With Unprecedented Precision
Science Snapshots Theresa Duque •
A research team including scientists from Berkeley Lab has developed a technique that produces atomic-scale 3D images of nanoparticles tumbling in liquid between sheets of graphene, the thinnest material possible.
Fine-Tuning Magnetic Spin for Faster, Smaller Memory Devices
Science Snapshots Theresa Duque •
![A team of researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have developed an antiferromagnetic switch for computer memory and processing applications. Credit: James Analytis/Berkeley Lab]](https://newscenter.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Fine-tuning-magnetic-spin-1063-150x150.png)
Researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have developed an ultrathin switch for computer memory and processing applications. Their findings have implications for further miniaturizing computing devices and personal electronics without loss of performance.
One Step Closer to a Fast-Charging Battery
Science Snapshots Julie Chao •
Berkeley Lab researchers, working with a team at Brookhaven National Laboratory, have made a key discovery about the dynamic structural changes in a material called lithium titanate, putting scientists one step closer to achieving a fast-charging lithium battery. The scientists used both experimental and computational techniques to examine lithium titanate, or LTO, while it was