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Central Activator Keeps the Circadian Clock Ticking
Most living organisms have adapted their physiology and behavior to match the daily cycle of light and dark generated by the rotation of the earth, operating with a period of approximately 24 hours....
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Polarized X-Rays Reveal Molecular Alignment in Printed Electronics
A new scattering method uses polarized x-rays to reveal the orientations of polymer chains in organic films. The orientations are relevant to a better understanding of charge-carrier mobility in...
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Guided Self-Assembly of Gold Thin Films
A team of UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a relatively easy, inexpensive, and scalable technique to direct the self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into device-ready thin...
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Studies Bolster Promise of Topological Insulators
Topological insulators are highly promising materials for electronic applications, displaying startling electronic properties and providing a possible medium for observing still-theoretical particles...
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New Species of Cyanobacteria Forms Intracellular Carbonates
A new species of cyanobacteria discovered in the Mexican Lake of Alchichica has been found to form amorphous intracellular carbonates, significantly modifying the traditional view of extracellular...
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Toward Design of a Universal Flu Vaccine
Scientists have determined the structures of antibodies that protect against broad classes of influenza strains. Greater understanding of these structures may aid in the eventual development of a...
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Chemistry of Cobalt-Platinum Nanocatalysts
Bimetallic cobalt-platinum (CoPt) nanoparticles are drawing attention in many areas of catalysis as scientists tackle the quest to reduce precious metal content while maintaining optimum catalytic...
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Two Studies Reveal Details of Lithium-Battery Function
Our way of life is deeply intertwined with battery technologies that have enabled a mobile revolution. In two studies at the ALS, researchers studied lithium batteries, obtaining detailed information...
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Studying the Solar System's Chemical Recipe
To study the origins of different isotope ratios among the elements that make up today’s smorgasbord of planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and interplanetary ice and dust, a team of scientists from the...
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The Importance of Domain Size and Purity in High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells
Scientists have long believed that the key to high efficiency in polymer-based organic photovoltaic cells rests in the purity of the charge donor and acceptor domains. Now, researchers have...
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Space-Age Ceramics Get Their Toughest Test
Advanced ceramic composites can withstand the ultrahigh operating temperatures of jet engines, but detailed analysis of these materials at such high temperatures has been a challenge. In a new...
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Flipping Photoelectron Spins in Topological Insulators
Inherently strange crystalline materials called 3D topological insulators (TIs) are a hot topic in materials science. Now, scientists working at ALS Beamline 4.0.3 have found that the spin polarization...
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One Vaccine Leads to Another
Diphtheria is a potentially lethal respiratory disease that is fairly well controlled by vaccines discovered early last century. These vaccines have been extremely effective; studies on one vaccine in...
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Trending: Metal Oxo Bonds
Strongly covalent metal–oxygen multiple bonds (metal oxos) hold the key to a wide variety of vital chemical processes. Spectroscopic and computational analyses of several metal oxides have quantified...
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Shedding Light on Nanocrystal Defects
Nanocrystals have attracted much scientific interest lately, but recent ALS research has shown that their tiny size does not safeguard them from defects. Nanocrystals subjected to high pressure...
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Iron Availability in the Southern Ocean
A study by scientists from South Africa’s Stellenbosch University, Princeton University, and the ALS looks at the reduced abundance of sea life and phytoplankton in the photic zone of the Southern...
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Mapping Particle Charges in Battery Electrodes
Despite the technological innovations and widespread use of batteries, the mechanism behind charging and discharging particles remains largely a mystery. Recently, researchers combined...
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Reversing the Circulation of Magnetic Vortices
Recently, magnetic vortices have drawn scientists toward the possibility of multibit magnetic memory in which each logic unit has four states instead of two. Previous studies showed how to flip the...
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From Protein Structure to Function: Ring Cycle for Dilating and Constricting...
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) serve as gatekeepers between a cell's cytoplasm and its nucleus. Through crystallographic analyses at the ALS, researchers have elucidated the molecular architecture of...
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A Spintronic Semiconductor with Selectable Charge Carriers
Researchers found a semiconductor with two properties crucial for spintronics: a large Rashba effect (splitting of degenerate spin states) and ambipolarity (conduction via electrons and holes)....
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