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Size Matters as Nanocrystals Go Through Phases 26 Aug 2013 | 09:04 pm
Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry have demonstrated that as metal nanocrystals go through phase transformations, size can make a much bigger difference than scientists previously belie...
Computer Simulations Indicate Calcium Carbonate Has a Dense Liquid Phase 22 Aug 2013 | 11:01 pm
Computer simulations conducted at Berkeley Lab could help scientists make sense of a recently observed and puzzling wrinkle in one of nature’s most important chemical processes. It turns out that calc...
New Results from Daya Bay – Tracking the Disappearance of Ghostlike Neutrinos 21 Aug 2013 | 11:51 pm
New results about the oscillation of neutrinos - elusive, ghostlike particles that carry invaluable clues about the makeup of the early universe – have been announced by the Daya Bay Collaboration, an...
From Mentee to Mentor, Berkeley Lab’s Education Programs Inspire Scientists 19 Aug 2013 | 09:24 pm
Berkeley Lab’s Center for Science and Engineering Education (CSEE), with its range of internship offerings, helps to fulfill one of the Lab’s mandates, which is to inspire and prepare this country’s n...
Raising the IQ of Smart Windows 14 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
Researchers at Berkeley Lab have designed a new material to make smart windows even smarter. The material is a thin coating of nanocrystals embedded in glass that can dynamically modify sunlight as it...
New Biochip Holds Great Promise for Quickly Triaging People After Radiation Exposure 14 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
Berkeley Lab scientists have helped to develop a tiny chip that has big potential for quickly determining whether someone has been exposed to dangerous levels of ionizing radiation. The first-of-its-k...
One-Pot to Prep Biomass for Biofuels: 14 Aug 2013 | 03:02 am
Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) researchers save water and reduce pollution with the first one-pot, wash-free, process for the ionic liquid pretreatment and saccharification of switchgrass, one of th...
New Twist in the Graphene Story: 12 Aug 2013 | 11:21 pm
Berkeley Lab researchers, working at the Advanced Light Source, have discovered that in the making of bilayer graphene, a tiny structural twist arises that can lead to surprisingly strong changes in t...
Installed Price of Solar Photovoltaic Systems in the U.S. Continues to Decline at a Rapid Pace 12 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
The installed price of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the United States fell substantially in 2012 and through the first half of 2013, according to the latest edition of Tracking the Sun, an...
A Path to Better MTV-MOFs: 9 Aug 2013 | 12:05 am
A team of Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers have developed a method for accurately predicting the ability of MTV-MOFs (multivariate metal organic frameworks) to scrub carbon dioxide from the ex...
