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Transformative 'green' accelerator achieves world's first 8-pass full energy recovery

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Scientists from Cornell University and Brookhaven National Laboratory have successfully demonstrated the world's first capture and reuse of energy in a multi-turn particle accelerator, where electrons are accelerated and decelerated in multiple stages and transported at different energies through a single beamline. This advance paves the way for ultra-bright particle accelerators that use far less energy than today's machines.

Funder: NYSERDA, DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

Nano-objects of desire: Assembling ordered nanostructures in 3D

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new DNA-programmable nanofabrication platform organizes inorganic or biological nanocomponents in the same prescribed ways.

Journal: Nature Materials

Department of Energy selects site for electron-ion collider

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

The US Department of Energy (DOE) named Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in New York as the site for building an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a one-of-a-kind nuclear physics research facility. This announcement, following DOE's approval of 'mission need' (known as Critical Decision 0) on December 19, 2019, enables work to begin on R&D and the conceptual design for this next-generation collider at Brookhaven Lab.

Top-10 Science and Technology Achievements of 2019

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

In 2019, scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory dove deeper into proton spin, took a leap in quantum communication, and uncovered new details of plant biochemistry, battery cathodes, catalysts, superconductors, and more. Here, in no particular order, are the biggest advances of the year.

Electron pulser for ultrafast electron microscopy wins 2019 R&D 100 award

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Brookhaven and its collaborators developed a laser-free device for probing fast atomic-scale processes in energy and bio materials.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Scientists 'Tune In' to Proton Spin

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Nuclear physicists have developed a non-invasive way to measure the 'spin tune' of polarized protons.

LI high school students solve protein structures at Brookhaven's light source

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Students from Long Island, New York, high schools have collaborated across districts to decipher the atomic-level structures of two proteins involved in a variety of diseases. The students used very bright x-rays to identify the 3-D arrangements of atoms that make up functional components of these proteins, and deposited the data into a repository accessible to researchers around the world.

20th Year of Particle Smashups Underway at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

The 20th year of particle collisions is underway at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, where particle smashups will continue over a range of collision energies through the first half of 2020. The main goal of this RHIC run is to explore details of how the hot, dense soup of particles that existed just after the Big Bang--known as quark-gluon plasma--transitioned into the protons and neutrons that make up the bulk of visible matter in today's world.

New function for plant enzyme could lead to green chemistry

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new function in a plant enzyme that could inspire the design of new chemical catalysts. The enzyme catalyzes, or initiates, one of the cornerstone chemical reactions needed to synthesize a wide array of organic molecules, including those found in lubricants, cosmetics, and those used as raw materials for making plastics.

Journal: PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

The big questions: José Rodriguez on catalysts

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

The Big Questions series features perspectives from the five recipients of the Department of Energy Office of Science's 2019 Distinguished Scientists Fellows Award describing their research and what they plan to do with the award. José Rodriguez is a senior chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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