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How x-rays can make better batteries
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryIn this Q&A, ALS senior staff scientist David Shapiro and Stanford materials science professor William Chueh share how their pioneering X-ray techniques can help researchers understand how battery materials work in real time at the atomic scale.
GISMo lab's innovative plan to make electricity cheaper, greener and more reliable
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryBusiness Announcement
A new gizmo from SLAC’s GISMo lab automatically adjusts a home’s power use to save energy, lower utility bills and make the electric grid more reliable.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
Stronger materials could bloom with new images of plastic flow
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
For the first time, scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have captured high-resolution images of a tiny aluminum single-crystal sample as it transitioned from elastic to plastic state.
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- Nature Communications
Safely studying dangerous infections just got a lot easier
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratorySoft X-ray tomography – a way to take gorgeously high-resolution, 3D images of cells – can help us study infections without risk of contamination. And now, the whole process takes just a fraction of the time and preparation required by other imaging methods.
Open sourced control hardware for quantum computers
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryThe team at the Advanced Quantum Testbed at Berkeley Lab has designed an electronics control system for superconducting qubits—QubiC for short—that is customizable and modular and is inspired by particle accelerator R&D at Berkeley Lab's ATAP division. QubiC's hardware and software have been open sourced so that the broader QIS community can contribute to it / improve it.
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- IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
Cutting through the noise
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
A collaboration between Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Physics Division and Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division has yielded a new approach to quantum error mitigation - "noise estimation circuits" - that could help make quantum computing’s theoretical potential a reality.
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- Physical Review Letters
Quantifying California’s lithium valley: can it power our EV revolution?
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryBusiness Announcement
The Salton Sea geothermal field in California potentially holds enough lithium to meet all of America’s domestic battery needs, with even enough left over to export some of it. But how much of that lithium can be extracted in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way? And how long will the resource last? These are just a few of the questions that researchers hope to answer in a new project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
Science snapshots from Berkeley Lab
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers at Berkeley Lab are working with five other Department of Energy national labs to develop a roadmap for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to meet its 100% renewable energy mandate. A new fungal strain has been discovered in a spacecraft assembly facility and named after a long-time Berkeley Lab microbiologist, Tamas Torok. MIT physicists and colleagues, including scientists from Berkeley Lab, have discovered the “secret sauce” behind the exotic properties of a new quantum material known as a kagome metal.
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- Nature Physics
A new way to shape a material’s atomic structure with ultrafast laser light
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers changed the atomic structure of a thermoelectric material in a unique way with pulses of intense laser light. This new method has the potential to create unique materials with dramatic properties that are not seen in nature.
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- Physical Review X
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- DOE/US Department of Energy