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Charges cascading along a molecular chain

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers led by Berkeley Lab has developed a method to fabricate a one-dimensional array of individual molecules and to precisely control its electronic structure.

Journal: Nature Electronics

Microbe 'rewiring' technique promises a boom in biomanufacturing

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers have achieved unprecedented success in modifying a microbe to efficiently produce a compound of interest using a computational model and CRISPR-based gene editing. Their approach could dramatically speed up the research and development phase for new biomanufacturing processes, getting advanced bio-based products, such as sustainable fuels and plastic alternatives, on the shelves faster.

Journal: Nature Communications

Uncovering novel genomes from earth's microbiomes

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As reported in Nature Biotechnology, the known diversity of bacteria and archaea has been expanded by 44% through a publicly available collection of more than 52,000 microbial genomes from environmental samples, resulting from a JGI-led collaboration involving more than 200 scientists (the IMG Data Consortium) around the world. Enabled by the repositories of data and computational tools established and maintained by JGI, KBase, and NERSC, with the contributions of a growing research community.

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

How to accelerate solar adoption for the underserved

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers examined if certain policy and business models could improve solar panel adoption equity in terms of household income. They found that three of the five interventions they studied, including targeted financial incentives and leasing models, do increase adoption of solar photovoltaics (PV) among low- and middle-income households, thus increasing adoption equity, which they define as the degree to which adopter incomes reflect the incomes of the general population.

Journal: Nature Energy
Funder: Department of Energy

Know when to unfold 'em: Applying particle physics methods to quantum computing

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Borrowing a page from high-energy physics and astronomy textbooks, a team of physicists and computer scientists at Berkeley Lab has successfully adapted and applied a common error-reduction technique to the field of quantum computing.

SLAC, Stanford to host national service center for cryo-ET sample preparation

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Business Announcement

The NIH is establishing a national service center at the SLAC and Stanford where biomedical researchers can learn how to prepare extremely thin specimens that are frozen into a glassy state for cryogenic electron tomography (cryo-ET), a powerful tool for directly visualizing cellular components in 3D.

Funder: NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences

NERSC supports COVID-19 pandemic response

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Since April 2020, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), located at Berkeley Lab, has allotted 2.5 million node hours on its Cori supercomputer and has provided dedicated HPC staff liaisons and other resources to support COVID-19 research.

GRETA, a 3D gamma-ray detector, gets green light to move forward

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The effort to construct GRETA, a cutting-edge spherical array of high-purity germanium crystals that will measure gamma-ray signals to reveal new details about the structure and inner workings of atomic nuclei, has received key approvals needed to proceed toward full build-out.

Weighing in on 'light' dark matter: Q&A with Sinéad Griffin

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

In this Q&A, Sinéad Griffin, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and Molecular Foundry, shares her thoughts on her search for light dark matter, the ultimate materials design challenge, and Berkeley Lab's collaborative "team science" culture.

Scientists launch quest to develop quantum sensors for probing quantum materials

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Business Announcement

When it comes to fully understanding the hidden secrets of quantum materials, it takes one to know one, scientists say: Only tools that also operate on quantum principles can get us there. A new Department of Energy research center will focus on developing those tools.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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