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Turning Up the Heat to Create New Nanostructured Metals
The metallic thin films with 3-D interlocking nanostructures could be used in catalysis, energy storage, and biomedical sensing.
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Dmitri Zakharov Recognized with the 2019 Chuck Fiori Award
The award honors Dmitri Zakharov's contributions to environmental transmission electron microscopy at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials.
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Meet Alessandra Colli: Engineering Improvements in 3-D-printed Metals
Alessandra Colli wants airplane engines to function flawlessly and rockets to be reliable. She's developing a strategy to leverage Brookhaven Lab's materials-science capabilities to improve the...
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Brookhaven Hosts Seven Teams for 2019 CyberForce CompetitionTM
Columbia, NYU, Northeastern, St. John's, SUNY Albany, SCCC, and USMA at West Point participated in the nationwide cyberdefense competition.
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New Function for Plant Enzyme Could Lead to Green Chemistry
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new function in a plant enzyme that could inspire the design of new chemical catalysts. The enzyme catalyzes, or initiates, one of the...
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20th Year of Particle Smashups Underway at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
The 20th year of particle collisions is underway at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at Brookhaven...
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LI High School Students Solve Protein Structures at Brookhaven's Light Source
Students from Long Island, New York, high schools have collaborated across districts to decipher the atomic-level structures of two proteins involved in a variety of diseases. The students used very...
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Electron Pulser for Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Wins 2019 R&D 100 Award
Brookhaven and its collaborators developed a laser-free device for probing fast atomic-scale processes in energy and bio materials.
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Top-10 Science and Technology Achievements of 2019
In 2019, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory dove deeper into proton spin, took a leap in quantum communication, and uncovered new details of plant...
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Department of Energy Selects Site for Electron-Ion Collider
UPTON, NY-- Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) named Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in New York as the site for building an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a one-of-a-kind...
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Nano-objects of Desire: Assembling Ordered Nanostructures in 3-D
A new DNA-programmable nanofabrication platform organizes inorganic or biological nanocomponents in the same prescribed ways.
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Transformative 'Green' Accelerator Achieves World's First 8-pass Full Energy...
Scientists from Cornell University and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have successfully demonstrated the world's first capture and reuse of energy in a multi-turn particle accelerator, where...
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Meet Liguo Wang, Scientific Operations Director of LBMS
This spring, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory will open its new cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) center, the Laboratory for BioMolecular Structure (LBMS). A...
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Theoretical Study Points to Jade-Like Materials as Quantum Spin Liquids
Materials that can host this exotic liquid-like magnetic state could be harnessed for next-generation energy and computing applications.
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Monitoring Intermediates in CO2 Conversion to Formate by Metal Catalyst
The production of formate from CO2 is considered an attractive strategy for the long-term storage of solar renewable energy in chemical form.
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CFN Staff Spotlight: Xiaohui Qu Bridges the Data Science-Materials Science Gap
As a staff member in the Theory and Computation Group at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Qu applies various approaches in artificial intelligence to analyze experimental and...
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Making High-Temperature Superconductivity Disappear to Understand Its Origin
Purely electronic interactions could be behind copper-oxygen compounds conducting electricity without resistance at relatively high temperatures.
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Cathode 'Defects' Improve Battery Performance
Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have made a new finding about battery performance that points to a different strategy for optimizing cathode materials....
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Great Neck South Wins Long Island Regional Science Bowls
UPTON, NY--On Thursday, Jan. 30 and Friday, Jan. 31, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory held two back-to-back installments of the Long Island Science Bowl, a regional...
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CFN User Spotlight: Nik Singh Seeks Better Battery Materials
Since 2011, Nikhilendra (Nik) Singh has been a senior scientist in the Materials Research Department at the Toyota Research Institute of North America. His quest to find alternatives to lithium-ion...
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