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The Advanced Light Source is a U.S. Department of Energy scientific user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Our mission is to advance science for the benefit of society by providing our world-class synchrotron light source capabilities and expertise to a broad scientific community.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Nominations for User Meeting Awards

Help us recognize members of the ALS community by submitting nominations for the Shirley Award, the Halbach Award, and the Renner Award. Deadline: May 30»

Probing Walls between Electrically Polarized Domains

Researchers used infrared light to investigate the properties of the domain walls that separate electrically polarized (ferroelectric) regions in a rare-earth ferrite material. An understanding of domain-wall behavior is relevant to the development of advanced logic and memory applications for ultralow-power digital devices. Read more »PPT-icon-35 PDF-icon-35

ANNOUNCEMENT

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities

The applications are now open for fellowships to conduct research at the ALS starting in September 2023! Share this opportunity with doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. Deadline: May 26

Kristin Carrillo, Senior Material Specialist

Kristin Carrillo’s many tasks around the ALS may be a divergence from her degree in psychology and her previous life as a softball player, but the connecting thread is the relationships she’s developed with the people around her. Find out more about her work as a material specialist and how she supports the scientific mission of the ALS. Read more »

Increasing the Energy Density of Hybrid Supercapacitor Electrodes

Hybrid supercapacitors (HSCs) integrate the merits of batteries with those of supercapacitors. However, the fraction of active material in HSC electrodes has remained too low for commercial requirements. Now, researchers have found a clever way to increase the active-mass ratio to achieve dramatic improvements in key measures. Read more »

Nicotine Protonation in Simulated Vaping Aerosols

To better understand how e-cigarette additives alter nicotine chemistry and users’ perceptions of vaping, researchers used x-ray spectroscopy technology at the Advanced Light Source to analyze the acid-base equilibria of additive-enhanced nicotine in simulated vaping aerosols. Read more »

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Recent High-Impact Publications

  • Bhowmick, A., R. Hussein, I. Bogacz, P.S. Simon, M. Ibrahim, R. Chatterjee, M.D. Doyle, M.H. Cheah, T. Fransson, P. Chernev, I.-S. Kim, H. Makita, M. Dasgupta, C.J. Kaminsky, M. Zhang, J. Gätcke, S. Haupt, I.I. Nangca, S.M. Keable, A.O. Aydin, K. Tono, S. Owada, L.B. Gee, F.D. Fuller, A. Batyuk, R. Alonso-Mori, J.M. Holton, D.W. Paley, N.W. Moriarty, F. Mamedov, P.D. Adams, A.S. Brewster, H. Dobbek, N.K. Sauter, U. Bergmann, A. Zouni, J. Messinger, J. Kern, J. Yano, and V.K. Yachandra, “Structural evidence for intermediates during O2 formation in photosystem II,” Nature (2023), doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06038-z (May 3, 2023).
  • Huang, J., A. Quest, P. Cruz-Morales, K. Deng, J.H. Pereira, D. Van Cura, R. Kakumanu, E.K. Baidoo, Q. Dan, Y. Chen, C.J. Petzold, T.R. Northen, P.D. Adams, D.S. Clark, E.P. Balskus, J.F. Hartwig, A. Mukhopadhyay, and J.D. Keasling, “Complete integration of carbene-transfer chemistry into biosynthesis,” Nature 617, 403 (2023), doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06027-2 (May 3, 2023).
  • Sun, X., D. Li, L. Zhao, Y. Zhang, Q. Hu, T.P. Russell, F. Liu, J. Wei, and H. Li, “(111)-Dominated Perovskite Films by Antisolvent Engineering,” Advanced Materials (2023), doi:10.1002/adma.202301115 (April 6, 2023).
  • Klewe, C., P. Shafer, J.E. Shoup, C. Kons, Y. Pogoryelov, R. Knut, B.A. Gray, H.-M. Jeon, B.M. Howe, O. Karis, Y. Suzuki, E. Arenholz, D.A. Arena, and S. Emori, “Observation of coherently coupled cation spin dynamics in an insulating ferrimagnetic oxide,” Applied Physics Letters 122, 132401 (2023), doi:10.1063/5.0141869 (March 27, 2023).
  • Pitsawong, W., R.P. Pádua, T. Grant, M. Hoemberger, R. Otten, N. Bradshaw, N. Grigorieff, and D. Kern, “From primordial clocks to circadian oscillators,” Nature 616, 183 (2023), doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05836-9 (March 22, 2023).

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