Sentences with phrase «berkeley lab scientists»

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has awarded Berkeley Lab scientists Bill Collins and Greg Bell with DOE Secretarial Honor Awards, which are the department's highest form of non-monetary employee recognition.

An international team, led by Berkeley Lab scientists, has demonstrated a breakthrough in the design and function of nanoparticles that could make solar panels more efficient by converting light usually missed by solar cells into usable energy.

In addition to the data from the radiometers, the Berkeley Lab scientists will get supplemental data by taking advantage of a separate, in - depth DOE climate study at the same location, which is using additional instruments and a balloon - borne sounding system to get information on temperature, cloud cover, the density and types of aerosols or pollution particles, heat fluxes and other climate variables like precipitation.

With the aid of rooftop instruments, satellite images, an airplane and a balloon, Berkeley Lab scientists are conducting the first - ever study to determine how pollution impacts the efficacy of white roofs in cooling the planet.

To find the right balance of moisture and temperature in a specialized type of hydrogen fuel cell, Berkeley Lab scientists have used X-rays to explore the inner workings of its components at tiny scales.

The researchers, led by Berkeley Lab scientists, measured atmospheric carbon dioxide's increasing capacity to absorb thermal radiation emitted from the Earth's surface over an eleven - year period at two locations in North America.

There will be a lot more carbon released from thawing permafrost than the amount taken in by more Arctic vegetation, according to new computer simulations conducted by Berkeley Lab scientists.

The rest of the Fifth Assessment Report, from Working Groups II and III, which also include contributions from several other Berkeley Lab scientists, will be released next spring.

Other Berkeley Lab scientists who contributed to this report were William Riley of the Earth Sciences Division and Prabhat of the Computational Research Division.

Berkeley Lab scientists identify new driver behind Arctic warming.

Partners in research: Akbari worked with a team of of Berkeley Lab scientists and research associates, including Mohamad Sleiman, Hugo Destaillats, Sharon Chen, Thomas Kirchstetter, Haley Gilbert, Paul Berdahl and Ronnen Levinson, as well as the Cool Roof Rating Council (CRRC) and more than 40 industrial partners, to develop the protocol.

Berkeley Lab scientists led by Delia Milliron at the Molecular Foundry have been working on materials to optimize both the transmitting and blocking capabilities.

Berkeley Lab scientists are working on electrochromic window glazing, which can switch between transmitting and blocking solar radiation.

Based on their results, the Berkeley Lab scientists recommend that future Earth system models include a more nuanced and dynamic depiction of how soil microbes go about the business of degrading organic matter and freeing up carbon.

Berkeley Lab scientists Jim McMahon (left), Jeff Greenblatt (middle) and Max Wei were significant contributors to the report, «California's Energy Future — The View to 2050.»

Berkeley Lab scientists at DOE's Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis are working to improve systems that efficiently convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into fuel.

Kasen, Barnes, and two other Berkeley Lab scientists were among the co-authors of several papers published today in the journals Nature, Science, and the Astrophysical Journal.

Results from a new study involving Berkeley Lab scientists could explain a mismatch between predictions and recent measurements of ghostly particles streaming from nuclear reactors — the so - called «reactor antineutrino anomaly» that has puzzled physicists since 2011.

The other set of studies, led by Destaillats working with Berkeley Lab scientists Lara Gundel and Jennifer Logue, will look at the particulate matter in thirdhand smoke, or PM2.5, particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers in size.

Berkeley Lab scientists first sounded the warning on thirdhand smoke with a pair of studies in 2010 establishing that nicotine in thirdhand smoke can react with common indoor air pollutants to produce dangerous carcinogens.

Berkeley Lab scientists are exploring whether a common soil bacterium can be engineered to produce liquid transportation fuels much more efficiently than the ways in which advanced biofuels are made today.

Berkeley Lab scientists are developing new ways to see the unseen.

Berkeley Lab scientists are developing a cell culture that could help researchers better identify chemicals that increase breast cancer susceptibility.

Berkeley Lab scientists studied mice and found their risk of mammary cancer from low - dose radiation depends a great deal on their genetic makeup.

Berkeley Lab scientists have developed a new method that can easily create immortal human mammary epithelial cells.

Berkeley Lab scientists are using a similar approach to study how cells repair DNA damage.

Berkeley Lab scientists have learned new details about how an important tumor - suppressing protein, called p53, binds to the human genome.

Berkeley Lab scientists have gained more insights into why older women are more susceptible to breast cancer.

The corresponding authors were Berkeley Lab scientists Trent Northen and Eoin Brodie.

Berkeley Lab scientists at DOE's Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis are working to improve systems that efficiently convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into fuel.

Berkeley Lab scientists and engineers played important roles in the design and construction of SNO — the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory — as well as subsequent data analysis that contributed to the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Canada's Arthur McDonald.

Other current or former Berkeley Lab scientists contributing to this studying were: Katherine Louie, Nasim Mansoori, Dominique Loqué, Benjamin Bowen, Zhao Hao, Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, and Ulas Karaoz; Shengjing Shi and Heejung Cho of UC Berkeley were also co-authors.

Berkeley Lab scientists are developing key components for LCLS - II, a major X-ray laser upgrade and expansion project that will enable new atomic - scale explorations with up to 1 million ultrabright X-ray pulses per second.

Through a program called IISME, or Industry Initiatives for Science and Mathematics Education, 12 high school science teachers from throughout the Bay Area spent part of their summer working with Berkeley Lab scientists on ongoing research projects, conducting and designing experiments and helping to collect and analyze data.

An international collaboration led by Berkeley Lab scientists has woven the first 3D covalent organic frameworks (COFs) from helical organic threads.

The PhyloChip, which was developed by Andersen and several other Berkeley Lab scientists, has been used for a number of medical, agricultural, and environmental purposes, including understanding air pollution, the ecology of coral reefs, and environmental conditions of the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill.

Berkeley Lab scientists are not new to disaster response.

In addition to Berkeley Lab scientists, other researchers contributing to this study were from Ohio State University.

Recently Berkeley Lab scientists used this method to calculate the absorption spectrum and confirm what several experimental results have been hinting — that the element berkelium breaks form with its heavy element peers by taking on an extra positive charge when bound to a synthetic organic molecule.

The Berkeley Lab scientists say this never - before - seen design rule could be used to piece together complex nanosheet structures and other peptoid assemblies such as nanotubes and crystalline solids.

Berkeley Lab scientist Evan Mills found that gaming computers offer a potential estimated savings of $ 18 billion per year globally by 2020.

Working with Berkeley Lab scientist Jill Banfield, a study co-author and also a professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the team used newly developed DNA - based methods to identify all of the genomes of the microbes that used the introduced oil for growth along with their specific genes that were responsible for oil degradation.

«This is an exciting development,» said study principal investigator Joel Ager, a Berkeley Lab scientist with joint appointments in the Materials Sciences and the Chemical Sciences divisions.

Together with Persson, Berkeley Lab scientist Gerbrand Ceder, postdoctoral associate Miao Liu, and MIT graduate student Ziqin Rong, the Materials Project team investigated some of the more promising materials in detail for high multivalent ion mobility, which is the most difficult property to achieve in these cathodes.

«We had no idea about what the double - strand DNA would look like between the nanogold particles,» said Gang «Gary» Ren, a Berkeley Lab scientist who led the research.

To that end, Berkeley Lab researchers will use CRISPR / Cas9 gene - editing technology, which Berkeley Lab scientist Jennifer Doudna helped pioneer, to systematically test the function of representative sequences in mice.

«(Berkeley Lab scientist) Yuxin Wu thawed a core under controlled conditions, but just like in nature,» Raz - Yaseef said.

Berkeley Lab scientist Yuxin Wu pulls water samples from a soil / ice core.

says Jinyun Tang, a scientist in Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences Division who conducted the research with fellow Berkeley Lab scientist William Riley.

In the new study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by Berkeley Lab scientist Peidong Yang discovered that an electrocatalyst made up of copper nanoparticles provided the conditions necessary to break down carbon dioxide to form ethylene, ethanol, and propanol.