In the fight against SARS-CoV-2, scientists have been working on identifying neutralizing antibodies that could be used in preventative treatments or as post-exposure therapies. The latest findings, which include data from the ALS, indicate that antibodies from SARS survivors could potently block entry of SARS-CoV-2 into host cells. Read more »
ALSNews Vol. 416
May 27, 2020
A Scalable Platform for Two-Dimensional Metals
Using a new method for stabilizing a two-dimensional (2D) metal on a large-area platform, researchers probed the origins of the material’s superconductivity. The work represents a notable milestone in advancing 2D materials toward broad applications in topological computing, advanced optics, and molecular sensing. Read more » 
A Forked Path for Superconductivity
Uranium ditelluride (UTe2) exhibits a form of superconductivity that could, in theory, enable fault-tolerant quantum computing. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy revealed several aspects of the material’s unusual electronic environment, including one-dimensional conducting channels that are orthogonally oriented. Read more »
Jin Qian, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Postdoc
As a theoretical chemist, Jin Qian builds “virtual universes” that help predict what experimental chemists will see in their research. She focuses on water formation, a theme that carries through to one of her hobbies, which she is sharing with us in this month’s postdoc profile. Read more »
May 2020 Message from the User Office
Berkeley Lab is planning to gradually bring staff back onsite, consistent with federal, state, and local guidance. These plans will begin on June 1 with a small on-site pilot group. We expect a few limited activities at the ALS to be part of this pilot. Once the ALS schedule for the 2020-2 cycle has been published, we will develop a detailed plan for allocating beamtime to proposals. We are exploring how each beamline can set up remote operations to support user experiments while staff maintain social distancing. Read more »
May 2020 Message from the UEC
We are working on making the 2020 User Meeting, which will now take place as an online meeting on August 25–28, as rich and productive as our user meetings normally are. We will announce more details over the next few months. If you wish to nominate someone for one of the awards below, please remember the deadline is June 1. Read more »
ALS in the News (May 2020)
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- Untangling a key step in photosynthetic oxygen production
- Worth it? Corona-lockdowns shutter research into vital solutions for our many other problems
- Antibody neutralizes SARS and COVID-19 coronaviruses
- In a step forward for orbitronics, scientists break the link between a quantum material’s spin and orbital states
- Ralston and Allaire step into new roles
- Linking properties to defects in 2D materials
- New mechanism links ozone and disease resistance
- World x-ray science facilities are contributing to overcoming COVID-19
- Berkeley Lab researchers and collaborators elected into National Academy of Sciences
- National Labs pivot to pandemic research
- Water is key in catalytic conversion of methane to methanol, scientists find
- Royal Society elects Berkeley Lab physicist Ramamoorthy Ramesh
- 2 Berkeley Lab scientists, visiting scientist elected as new members of honorary society
- Pursuing particle chemistry
- Researchers discover ferroelectricity at the atomic scale
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