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Submit Nominations for 2025 User Meeting Awards

Help us recognize members of the ALS community by submitting nominations for the Shirley Award, Halbach Award, Renner Award, and the Early Career Award. Deadline: May 16. Read more »

Building a Gated-Access Fast Lane for Ions

In organic conductors where charge is carried by both electrons and ions, scientists have discovered a way to make the ions move more than ten times faster than in comparable ion-transport methods. The results could apply to a host of areas, including improved battery charging, biosensing, soft robotics, and neuromorphic computing. Read more »

ALS Structural Biology Beamlines Surpass 10,000 Protein Structures in the PDB

Today, the nine structural biology beamlines at the ALS passed a major milestone of collectively depositing over 10,000 protein structures into the Protein Data Bank (PDB), a worldwide, open-access repository of protein structures. Read more »

2025 Winter Shutdown Recap

After another busy shutdown, the ALS is in the process of returning to user operation later this week. The ALS-U accomplishments of the Winter 2025 shutdown include the accumulator ring installation sectors 1-11, seismic upgrades, ALS-U cable routing and electrical installation, RF infrastructure installation, and the booster bend power supply commissioning. In addition, the teams were able to complete several projects for the current ALS. Read more »

Abadi, S.N., K. Xu, E.G. Lomeli, P. Puphal, M. Isobe, Y. Zhong, A.V. Fedorov, S.-K. Mo, M. Hashimoto, D. Lu, B. Moritz, B. Keimer, T. Devereaux, M.J. Hepting, and Z.-X. Shen, “Electronic Structure of the Alternating Monolayer-Trilayer Phase of La₃Ni₂O₇,” Physical Review Letters 134, 126001 (2025), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.126001 (March 25, 2025).
Shih, M.-C., S. Tan, Y. Lu, T. Kodalle, D.-K. Lee, Y. Dong, B.W. Larson, S. Park, R. Zhang, M.J. Grotevent, T. Sverko, H. Zhu, Y. Lin, C.M. Sutter-Fella, K. Zhu, M.C. Beard, V. Bulović, and M. Bawendi, “A 2D/3D Heterostructure Perovskite Solar Cell with a Phase-Pure and Pristine 2D Layer,” Advanced Materials 37, 2416672 (2025), doi:10.1002/adma.202416672 (March 18, 2025).
Huang, A., A.K. Gupta, H.H. Jiang, H. Zhuang, M.B. Wenny, R.A. Klein, H. Kwon, K. Meihaus, H. Furukawa, C.M. Brown, J. Reimer, W.A. de Jong, and J. Long, “Phase Change-Mediated Capture of Carbon Dioxide from Air with a Molecular Triamine Network Solid,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 147, 10519 (2025), doi:10.1021/jacs.4c18643 (March 12, 2025).
Russo, D., A. Gaiser, A.N. Price, D.-C. Sergentu, J.N. Wacker, N. Katzer, A. Peterson, J. Branson, X. Yu, S. Kelly, E.T. Ouellette, J. Arnold, J. Long, W.W. Lukens, S.J. Teat, R.J. Abergel, P.L. Arnold, J. Autschbach, and S.G. Minasian, “Berkelium-carbon bonding in a tetravalent berkelocene,” Science 387, 974 (2025), doi:10.1126/science.adr3346 (February 27, 2025).
Navarro-Huerta, A., T. Matsuo, A.S. Mikherdov, J. Blahut, E. Bartůňková, P. Jiang, M. Dračínský, S.J. Teat, M. Jin, S. Hayashi, and B. Rodriguez-Molina, “Optical Waveguiding Charge-Transfer Cocrystals: Examining the Impact of Molecular Rotations on Their Photoluminescence,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 147, 8343 (2025), doi:10.1021/jacs.4c15957 (February 26, 2025).

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Submit Nominations for 2025 User Meeting Awards

Building a Gated-Access Fast Lane for Ions

ALS Structural Biology Beamlines Surpass 10,000 Protein Structures in the PDB

2025 Winter Shutdown Recap

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