Sentences with phrase «berkeley national laboratory»

Defects and jagged surfaces at the edges of nanosized platinum and gold particles are key hot spots for chemical reactivity, a team of researchers working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel confirmed with a unique infrared probe.

But what we have in mind for this Institute is having a framework for researchers to partner with engineers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — two nearby federal research facilities with world - class expertise in technology development — and other key institutes here at UCSF.

JBEI, based in Emeryville, Cal., is a multi-institutional research partnership led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) dedicated to developing advanced drop - in biofuels — liquid fuels derived from the solar energy stored in plant biomass that can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuels.

The international science team, which included researchers from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, analyzed data from past sky surveys using sophisticated image - recognition technology to home in on the gravity - based effects that identify the shapes of these filaments.

An international team working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has captured the first high - resolution 3 - D images from individual double - helix DNA segments attached at either end to gold nanoparticles.

Along with Dr. Ron Zuckermann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, De Yoreo developed protein - like materials that affect inorganic mineralization, which is of interest for carbon sequestration.

SDSS - III is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS ‑ III Collaboration including the University of Arizona, the Brazilian Participation Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Florida, the French Participation Group, the German Participation Group, Harvard University, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, the Michigan State / Notre Dame / JINA Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, New Mexico State University, New York University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the Spanish Participation Group, University of Tokyo, University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, University of Washington, and Yale University.

Now an international team of researchers led by Felix R. Fischer, Michael F. Crommie (University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), and Angel Rubio (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter at CFEL in Hamburg and University of the Basque Country in San Sebastián) has imaged and resolved the bond configuration of reactants, intermediates and final products of a complex and technologically relevant organic surface reaction at the single - molecule level.

A new two - dimensional film, made of polymers and nanoparticles and developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), can direct two different non-mixing liquids into a variety of exotic architectures.

SSIP was developed by scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the University of Bonn in Germany, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have created a sort of nanoscale display case that enables new atomic - scale views of hard - to - study chemical and biological samples.

Now, a team of researchers led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have reported that a new lithium - sulfur battery component allows a doubling in capacity compared to a conventional lithium - sulfur battery, even after more than 100 charge cycles at high current densities, which are key performance metrics for their adoption in electric vehicles (EVs) and in aviation.

By taking multiple images of the iron - platinum nanoparticle with an advanced electron microscope at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and using powerful reconstruction algorithms developed at UCLA, the researchers determined the precise three - dimensional arrangement of atoms in the nanoparticle.

That's why a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Joint Genome Institute (JGI) took one of the most popular clustering approaches in modern biology — the Markov Clustering (MCL) algorithm — and modified it to run quickly, efficiently and at scale on distributed - memory supercomputers.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is JBEI's lead institution and a founding partner of the DOE Joint Genome Institute.

He earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology; was a postdoctoral scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; was Professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley; was a Principal Investigator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; was founder and Institute Director of the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation and the California Institute for Biomedical Research (CALIBR); and a founder of Affymax Research Institute, Syrrx, Kalypsys, Phenomix, SymyxTherapeutics, Ilypsa, Ambrx, Ardelyx, and Wildcat Technologies, pioneers in the application of diversity based approaches to problems in chemistry, materials science and medicine.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 3, 2016 — Three U.S. Department of Energy - funded research centers — the BioEnergy Science Center (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (University of Wisconsin — Madison and Michigan State University), and the Joint BioEnergy Institute (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)-- are making progress on a shared mission to develop technologies that will bring advanced biofuels to the marketplace, reporting today the disclosure of their 500th invention.

** In 2014, Sethian established CAMERA at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as an integrated, cross-disciplinary center to develop and deliver fundamental new mathematics required to capitalize on experimental investigations at DOE Office of Science user facilities.

Pearce also has received access awards to Department of Energy facilities such as the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

In a study published ahead the week of January 8, 2018 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and the DOE's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), report the first results of a long - term plan to sequence, annotate and analyze the genomes of 300 Aspergillus fungi.

Results: A research team from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has successfully used microbes to modify the subsurface environment and immobilize mobile chromate in the groundwater near the Hanford 100 - H site.

The US Dept. of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued their own Feb. 1, 2017 news release (also on EurekAlert) about the work with a focus on how their equipment made this breakthrough possible (it repeats a little of the info.

Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging; Professor at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

... researchers working with magnetic nanoparticles at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) approached computational scientists at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to help solve a unique problem: to model magnetism at the atomic level using experimental data from a real nanoparticle.

### Contributors to the Scientific Reports paper, «Deconvoluting the Photonic and Electronic Response of 2 - D Materials: The Case of MoS2,» are Zhang, Brian Bersch, Ganesh Bhimanapati, Baoming Wang, Ke Wang, Michael Labella, Teague Williams, Amanul Haque and Joshua Robinson, all of Penn State; Nicholas Borys, Edward Barnard and P. James Schuck, the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Ke Xu and Susan Fullerton - Shirey, University of Pittsburgh.

«The chameleon field is light in empty space but as soon as it enters an object it becomes very heavy and so couples only to the outermost layer of a big object, and not to the internal parts,» Holger Muller, an assistant professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, said in a statement Thursday.

Paul Alivisatos, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley and the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have discovered that as plants develop they craft their root microbiome, favoring microbes that consume very specific metabolites.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are contributing key components for the project, known as LCLS - II, that will greatly increase the power and capacity of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), a free - electron X-ray laser at the DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif..

The latest study, which featured experiments at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), could help explain the presence of pyrene, which is a chemical compound known as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, and similar compounds in some meteorites.

A team led by Robert Weatherup of the University of Cambridge in the UK and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US obtained their videos using a specifically modified scanning electron microscope (SEM).

A crucial piece of the puzzle behind nature's ability to split the water molecule during photosynthesis that could help advance the development of artificial photosynthesis for clean, green and renewable energy has been provided by an international collaboration of scientists led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

The team also includes members at three national research labs, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and at Hunter College (CUNY), Tennessee Technological University, University of New Mexico and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Research Team: James J. De Yoreo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and University of Washington; Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert, University of Wisconsin, Madison and Harvard University; Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk, Eindhoven University of Technology; R. Lee Penn, University of Minnesota; Stephen Whitelam, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Derk Joester, Northwestern University; Hengzhong Zhang and Jillian F. Banfield, University of California Berkeley; Jeffrey D. Rimer, University of Houston; Alexandra Navrotsky, University of California, Davis; Adam F. Wallace, University of Delaware; Fiona C. Meldrum, University of Leeds; Helmut Cölfen, University of Konstanz; F. Marc Michel and Patricia M. Dove, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are working to understand — and manipulate — plant photoprotection mechanisms, such as a process called NPQ, or nonphotochemical quenching, which helps dissipate excess light energy inside chloroplasts.

She joined the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a Senior Scientist in 1991.

JGI is a DOE Office of Science User Facility managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory © 1997 - 2018 The Regents of the University of California

Co-founded and directed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientist Kristin Persson, the Materials Project uses supercomputers to calculate the properties of materials based on first - principles quantum - mechanical frameworks.

The experiments, led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), are helping researchers narrow down the process by which the protein, called photosystem II, uses light energy to split water and create oxygen.

Building on methods they used to assess the impact of hurricanes such as Katrina, Gustav, and Rita on forests and tree mortality, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have produced a rapid mapping of the disturbance intensity across Puerto Rico's forests with the help of Google Earth Engine.

«Phonons in solids are usually regarded as the collective linear motion of atoms,» said Xiang Zhang, the corresponding author of the study and senior scientist of the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a professor at UC Berkeley and member of the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (Kavli ENSI).

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Eoin L. Brodie, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley

Prior to joining the Microscopy Group at ORNL in 2008, she was a visiting scholar at the National Center for Electron Microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2004 - 2006) and was a research fellow at Lawrence Livermore National laboratory (2006 - 2008).

So he and his team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and collaborating teams at CCP4 and at the Diamond Light Source synchrotron in the United Kingdom developed a modular system that allows new algorithms to be dropped in as new experimental methods and technologies emerge.

Topic: Processing serial crystallographic data using cctbx.xfel and DIALS Presenter: Aaron Brewster, Project Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Host: Jason Key Recorded on January 10, 2016

In one sentence: PNNL and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) researchers, zoomed in at the highest resolution yet on these problematic carbon - based deposits, which are vital to fuel production and other processes.

«Anyone with a mathematical mind will see this problem and think there's got to be an easier solution,» says Holton, the Beamline Scientist at the Advanced Light Source at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

User Facilities: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at PNNL, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which was accessed through an INCITE grant.

«To move beyond cataloging microbes, we will need new tools to rapidly determine microbial gene function and monitor the chemicals microbes use to communicate and interact with their environment, and new ways to visualize and model those interactions,» said Eoin Brodie, a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Earth Sciences Division and an author of the proposal.