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ALS-U Project Receives CD-1 Approval

The ALS Upgrade (ALS-U) project has received federal approval (CD-1) to proceed with preliminary design, planning, and R&D work. This major upgrade will boost the brightness and coherent flux of ALS soft x-ray beams at least a hundredfold, enabling transformative science that cannot be performed on any existing or planned light source in the world.
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A 2D Lattice of Molecular Qubits for Quantum Computing

Researchers developed a way to build a 2D lattice of molecular-spin qubits (quantum bits of information), with control over qubit orientation and localization. The work enables the integration of molecular quantum-information hardware into the scalable, robust, solid-state architectures needed for performing quantum computation. Read more »PPT-icon-35

Ordered Magnetic Patterns in a Disordered Magnetic Material

Scientists have confirmed the presence of chirality, or handedness, in nanometers-thick samples of amorphous (noncrystalline) multilayer materials. The chirality—which potentially could be exploited to transmit and store data in a new way—was observed in the domain walls between neighboring regions of opposite spin. Read more »

Pupa Gilbert to Receive the 2018 Shirley Award

Pupa Gilbert, professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is the 2018 recipient of the David A. Shirley Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement at the ALS, “for her development of polarization-dependent imaging contrast mapping to image the orientation of carbonate nanocrystals in marine biominerals.” Read more »

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Last Chance to Register for the 2018 User Meeting

Join us at the ALS User Meeting to celebrate the ALS’s 25th anniversary. This year’s meeting features an exciting new format designed especially with students and early career scientists in mind. Registration closes September 27.Details

Recent High-Impact Publications

C.A. Stifler, N.K. Wittig, M. Sassi, C.-Y. Sun, M.A. Marcus, H. Birkedal, E. Beniash, K.M. Rosso, and P.U.P.A. Gilbert, “X-ray Linear Dichroism in Apatite,” JACS, doi:10.1021/jacs.8b05547 (September 5, 2018).

N. Köpfle, T. Götsch, M. Grünbacher, E.A. Carbonio, M. Hävecker, A. Knop-Gericke, L. Schlicker, A. Doran, D. Kober, A. Gurlo, S. Penner, and B. Klötzer, “Zirconium-assisted Activation of Palladium boosts Syngas Production by Methane Dry Reforming,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., doi: 10.1002/anie.201807463 (September 4, 2018).

Q. Li, M. Yang, C. Gong, R.V. Chopdekar, A.T. N’Diaye, J. Turner, G. Chen, A. Scholl, P. Shafer, E. Arenholz, A.K. Schmid, S. Wang, K. Liu, N. Gao, A.S. Admasu, S.-W. Cheong, C. Hwang, J. Li, F. Wang, X. Zhang, and Z. Qiu, “Patterning-Induced Ferromagnetism of Fe3GeTe2 van der Waals Materials beyond Room Temperature,” Nano Lett., 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b02806 (August 16, 2018).

L.N. McHugh, M.J. McPherson, L.J. McCormick, S.A. Morris, P.S. Wheatley, S.J. Teat, D. McKay, D.M. Dawson, C.E.F. Sansome, S.E. Ashbrook, C.A. Stone, M.W. Smith, and R.E. Morris, “Hydrolytic stability in hemilabile metal–organic frameworks,” Nat. Chem., doi:10.1038/s41557-018-0104-x (August 13, 2018).

L.V. Sibener, R.A. Fernandes, E.M. Kolawole, C.B. Carbone, F. Liu, D. McAffee, M.E. Birnbaum, X. Yang, L.F. Su, W. Yu, S. Dong, M.H. Gee, K.M. Jude, M.M. Davis, J.T. Groves, W.A. Goddard, J.R. Heath, B.D. Evavold, R.D. Vale, and K.C. Garcia, “Isolation of a Structural Mechanism for Uncoupling T Cell Receptor Signaling from Peptide-MHC Binding,” Cell 174, 672 (2018), doi:10.1016/j.cell.2018.06.017 (July 26, 2018).

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