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A new way to look at MOFs

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international collaboration led by Berkeley Lab's Omar Yaghi has developed a technique called 'gas adsorption crystallography' that provides a new way to study the process by which metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are able to store immense volumes of gases such a carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane.

Journal: Nature Communications

New clues to how gatekeeper for the cell nucleus works

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab scientists have uncovered new clues to how a molecular machine inside the cell acts as a gatekeeper, allowing some molecules to enter and exit the nucleus while keeping other molecules out.

Journal: Scientific Reports

Researchers discover a new dimension to high-temperature superconductivity

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory combined powerful magnetic pulses with some of the brightest X-rays on the planet to discover a surprising 3-D arrangement of a material's electrons that appears closely linked to a mysterious phenomenon known as high-temperature superconductivity.

Journal: Science

Supernova twins: Making standard candles more standard than ever

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Type Ia supernovae are bright 'standard candles' for measuring cosmic distances. Standard enough to discover dark energy, they're far from identical. Researchers at the international Nearby Supernova Factory, based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have shown that supernova twins -- those with closely matching spectra -- can double the accuracy of distance measures.

Funder: German Research Foundation, Tsinghua University, US Department of Energy's Office of Science, National Center for Scientific Research/National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (France)

Using hydrogen to enhance lithium ion batteries

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have found that lithium ion batteries operate longer and faster when their electrodes are treated with hydrogen.

Journal: Scientific Reports

A record-setting way to make transparent conductors: Spread them like butter on toast

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists from Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have shown they can make flexible, transparent electrical conductors with record-high performance for use in solar cells, displays and other devices by spreading polymers on a clear surface with a tiny blade, like a knife spreading butter on toast.

First neutrino sightings by MicroBooNE

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The recently commissioned MicroBooNE experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has reached a major milestone: It detected its first neutrinos on Oct. 15, marking the beginning of detailed studies of these fundamental particles whose properties could be linked to dark matter, matter's dominance over antimatter in the universe and the evolution of the entire cosmos since the Big Bang.

Scientists get first glimpse of conductivity that could break size barriers for memory

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists from Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made the first direct images showing that electrical currents can flow along the boundaries between tiny magnetic regions of a material that normally doesn't conduct electricity. The results could have major implications for magnetic memory storage.

Battery mystery solved: Microscopy answers longstanding questions about lithium-rich transition metal oxides

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using complementary microscopy and spectroscopy techniques, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) say they have solved the structure of lithium- and manganese-rich transition metal oxides, a potentially game-changing battery material and the subject of intense debate in the decade since it was discovered.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Scientists call for national effort to understand and harness Earth's microbes

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

To understand and harness the capabilities of Earth's microbial ecosystems, nearly fifty scientists from Department of Energy national laboratories, universities, and research institutions propose a national effort called the Unified Microbiome Initiative.

Journal: Science