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On the road to ANG vehicles

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers have developed metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that feature flexible gas-adsorbing pores, giving them a high capacity for storing methane. This capability has the potential to help make the driving range of adsorbed-natural-gas (ANG) cars comparable to that of a typical gasoline-powered car.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/ARPA-E

Stanford and SLAC celebrate Arthur Bienenstock

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Arthur 'Artie' Bienenstock, professor emeritus at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, was honored with an all-day symposium in recognition of his outstanding contributions to science, academia, graduate student education and US science policy.

It takes a thief

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The discovery by Berkeley Lab researchers of the structural basis by which bacteria are able to capture genetic information from viruses and other foreign invaders for use in their own immunological system holds promise for studying or correcting problems in human genomes.

Journal: Nature
Funder: National Science Foundation

Berkeley Lab scientists to help build world's first total-body PET scanner

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Scientists from Berkeley Lab have set out to help build the world's first total-body positron emission tomography scanner, a medical imaging device that could change the way cancers and other diseases are diagnosed and treated. The project is a consortium led by a UC Davis research team and includes scientists from Berkeley Lab and the University of Pennsylvania. It's supported by a recently announced five-year, $15.5 million Transformative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health.

Funder: National Institutes of Health

SLAC's Claudio Pellegrini receives Fermi Award at White House

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

President Obama welcomed SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's Claudio Pellegrini into the Oval Office Tuesday morning as a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the highest honors the US government can give to a scientist.

Exciting breakthrough in 2-D lasers

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An important step towards next-generation ultra-compact photonic and optoelectronic devices has been taken with the realization of a two-dimensional excitonic laser. Berkeley Lab researchers have embedded a monolayer of tungsten disulfide into a special microdisk resonator to achieve bright excitonic lasing at visible light wavelengths.

Journal: Nature Photonics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research / Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Building off known genomes to advance systems and ecosystems biology

DOE/Joint Genome Institute
Grant and Award Announcement

The US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has selected 27 new projects for the 2016 Community Science Program (CSP). The full list of projects may be found at http://jgi.doe.gov/our-projects/csp-plans/fy-2016-csp-plans/. Susannah Tringe, DOE JGI User Programs Deputy, noted that these projects 'build our portfolio in key focus areas including sustainable bioenergy production, plant microbiomes and terrestrial biogeochemistry.'

Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Paul Fuoss receives Lytle Award for developing X-ray technique to better explore materials

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Paul H. Fuoss has received the Farrel W. Lytle Award for developing a pioneering X-ray technique that is now used worldwide to explore the structure of complex materials. The award was presented during an Oct. 8 ceremony at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Jonathan Dorfan and David Hitlin receive 2016 Panofsky Prize

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The American Physical Society has honored two key figures of the BABAR particle physics experiment at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory with the 2016 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics: SLAC Director Emeritus Jonathan Dorfan and California Institute of Technology Professor David Hitlin. They share the award with Stephen Olsen and Fumihiko Takasaki, two lead researchers of the Belle experiment in Japan.

Is black phosphorus the next big thing in materials?

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers have confirmed that single-crystal black phosphorus nanoribbons display a strong in-plane anisotropy in thermal conductivity, an experimental revelation that should facilitate the future application of this highly promising material to electronic, optoelectronic and thermoelectric devices.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science