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New clues about a brain protein with high affinity for Valium

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Valium, one of the best known antianxiety drugs, produces its calming effects by binding with a particular protein in the brain. But the drug has an almost equally strong affinity for a completely different protein. New studies revealing atomic level details of this secondary interaction might offer clues about Valium's side effects and point the way to more effective drugs.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, New York Structural Biology Center, National Institutes of Health

Nanoscale mirrored cavities amplify, connect quantum memories

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Constructing tiny 'mirrors' to trap light increases the efficiency with which photons can pick up and transmit information about electronic spin states -- which is essential for scaling up quantum memories for functional quantum computing systems and networks.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, NASA/Office of the Chief Technologist's Space Technology Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Self-assembled nanotextures create antireflective surface on silicon solar cells

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory show that etching a nanoscale texture onto silicon creates an antireflective surface that works as well as state-of-the-art thin-film multilayer antireflective coatings for solar cells.

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

Self-destructive effects of magnetically-doped ferromagnetic topological insulators

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new atomic-scale study of the surface properties of certain ferromagnetic topological insulators reveals that these materials exhibit extreme, unexpected, and self-destructive electronic disorder.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Institute for Basic Science in Korea

RHIC physics feeds future high-tech workforce: Ágnes Mócsy

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Ágnes Mócsy, a theoretical physicist and tenured associate professor at Pratt Institute, one of the world's prestigious art and design universities, hopes to convey the sense of awe she experienced seeing Brookhaven Lab's particle collider to the art students she teaches in physics and astronomy classes for non-physics majors.

Solar cell polymers with multiplied electrical output

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team from Brookhaven Lab and Columbia University has paired up photovoltaic polymers that produce two units of electricity per unit of light instead of the usual one on a single molecular polymer chain. Having the two charges on the same molecule means the light-absorbing, energy-producing materials work efficiently when dissolved in liquids, which opens the way for a wide range of industrial scale manufacturing processes, including 'printing' solar-energy-producing material like ink.

Journal: Nature Materials
Funder: 3M, US Department of Energy's Office of Science, National Science Foundation

Compact batteries enhanced by spontaneous silver matrix formations

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The formation of a highly conductive silver matrix inside an otherwise poorly performing battery enhances its efficiency and offers new potential applications. Scientists used x-rays to see where, when, and how these nanoscale 'bridges' emerge and develop new material designs and optimization techniques.

Journal: Science
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science - Office of Basic Energy Sciences

2014's top-10 scientific achievements at Brookhaven Lab

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

From new insights into the building blocks of matter to advances in understanding batteries, superconductors, and a protein that could help fight cancer, 2014 was a year of stunning successes for the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Microscopy reveals how atom-high steps impede oxidation of metal surfaces

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study reveals that certain features of metal surfaces can stop the process of oxidation in its tracks. The findings could be relevant to understanding and perhaps controlling oxidation in a wide range of materials -- from catalysts to the superalloys used in jet engine turbines and the oxides in microelectronics.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Unusual electronic state found in new class of unconventional superconductors

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have discovered an unusual form of electronic order in a new family of unconventional superconductors, giving scientists a new group of materials to explore to understand ability to carry current with no energy loss.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: Friends of Todai Inc. Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, DOE/US Department of Energy, Japan Society of the Promotion of Science

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