Sentences with phrase «molecular foundry»

Scientists at the Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis have made a discovery that could push that efficiency up even higher — up to 31 percent.

«If the material can be synthesized so that only very efficient facets develop, then we could see a big jump in the efficiency of perovskite solar cells, possibly approaching 31 percent,» said Sibel Leblebici, a postdoctoral researcher at the Molecular Foundry.

«In the US, we spend about a quarter of our total energy on lighting, heating and cooling our buildings,» says Delia Milliron, a chemist at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry who led this research.

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

We were extremely lucky because our proposal was accepted by the Molecular Foundry, one of five DOE [US Department of Energy]- funded nanoscience user facilities.

Berkeley Lab researchers, working at the Molecular Foundry, have invented a technique called «CLAIRE» that extends the incredible resolution of electron microscopy to the non-invasive nanoscale imaging of soft matter, including biomolecules, liquids, polymers, gels and foams.

One of the factors of Bikanta's success is that the Molecular Foundry enabled us to make tremendous strides in R&D in just months instead of years.

The Molecular Foundry scientists who helped discover a new nano design rule.

The Molecular Foundry is hosting its annual Users» Meeting — a nanoscience conference at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab — on August 11 - 12, 2016.

The Molecular Foundry is a Department of Energy user facility for academic, national laboratory and industrial researchers.

To find out how calcium carbonate incorporates proteins or other strength - building components, the team turned to atomic force microscopy, also known as AFM, at the Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The Molecular Foundry and Advanced Light Source are DOE Office of Science User Facilities.

The Molecular Foundry at LBL is a Department of Energy - funded nanoscience research facility that provides cutting - edge expertise and instrumentation.

All of these capabilities are accessible to the world's scientists via the lab's Molecular Foundry and Advanced Light Source (ALS).

The Molecular Foundry and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), both at Berkeley Lab, were used in the research.

The scientists» latest accomplishment hinged on the use of one of the highest - resolution transmission electron microscopes in the world, called TEAM I. It's located at the National Center for Electron Microscopy, which is a Molecular Foundry facility.

Gang Ren (standing) and Lei Zhang participated in a study at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry that produced 3 - D reproductions of individual samples of double - helix DNA segments attached to gold nanoparticles.

Powerful electron microscopes have been used for decades to probe materials at atomic - scale; and right next door to the Molecular Foundry is Berkeley Lab's National Center for Electron Microscopy, which houses the most powerful microscopes in the world.

Researchers determined the atomic structure of the MOFs and the bound molecules with X-rays at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS), and they also studied the MOFs using a technique called nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry.

Researchers used a cryo - electron microscope at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry for this study.

Before joining PNNL, De Yoreo was the Interim Director of the Molecular Foundry, a user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

Frank: The Berkeley Lab has a Molecular Foundry — a facility for building nanoscale tools — and there's an amazing physicist there named Peter Denes.

If someone wants to build a new sensor, say, to understand how cells change their activity, they'll know to go talk to the people who do nanoscale engineering at Lawrence Berkeley's Molecular Foundry, who know a lot about that.

Working with Paul Kent, a computational materials scientist at ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, the team collaborated with researchers at UCLA and Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry to combine world - class experimental data with world - class computing to do something new — simulate magnetism atom by atom in a real nanoparticle.

Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, Advanced Light Source, and NERSC are DOE Office of Science User Facilities that are open to visiting researchers from around the nation and world.

Interesting features emerged at this extreme scale after Molecular Foundry scientists used code they developed to analyze the atomic structure.

Staff scientist Gang Ren (standing) and is postdoc colleague Lei Zhang can checking images of individual proteins from their cryo - electron microscope at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry.

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

«The new polymer acts as a wall,» said Brett Helms, a staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry and corresponding author of the study.

### 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.

Deputy Director of Research at Molecular Foundry discusses material formation at seminar series

The Molecular Foundry and the Advanced Light Source are both DOE Office of Science User Facilities.

Imaging work was done at the Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

Work at the Molecular Foundry was supported by the Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No.

They turned to a manufacturing technique called plasma - enhanced atomic layer deposition, performed at the Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Lab.

The Molecular Foundry is one of five DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRCs), national user facilities for interdisciplinary research at the nanoscale, supported by the DOE Office of Science.

Virginia Altoe imaged the nanowires using transmission electron microscopy in the imaging facility of the Molecular Foundry.

The methods and materials described in the paper are available free of charge to researchers from around the world through the Molecular Foundry's user program.

Frank Ogletree, Molecular Foundry staff scientist, assisted in mapping the optical properties of the nanowires.

To find out, De Yoreo and team allowed calcium carbonate to mineralize under a specialized transmission electron microscope at the Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

«The Molecular Foundry truly enabled CLAIRE imaging to come to life,» she says.

She also gives much credit to the staff and capabilities of the Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, where the CLAIRE imaging demonstration was carried out.

The Advanced Light Source and the Molecular Foundry are DOE Office of Science User Facilities located at Berkeley Lab.

Neaton is also the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences at Berkeley Lab, the director of Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, and a physics professor at UC Berkeley.

Moreover, there's been very little understanding of the fundamental science of how resist actually works at the chemical level, says Deirdre Olynick, staff scientist at the Molecular Foundry.

Using the Nanofabrication and Imaging and Manipulation facilities at the Molecular Foundry to analyze the patterns, the researchers saw improvements in the smoothness of lines created by the photoresist, even as they shrunk the width.

The new resist effectively combines the material properties of two pre-existing kinds of resist, achieving the characteristics needed to make smaller features for microprocessors, which include better light sensitivity and mechanical stability, says Paul Ashby, staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science user facility.

«No one had used bi-metalic catalysts to control growth direction before,» says Tevye Kuykendall, scientist at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry.

The researchers characterized the materials at the National Center for Electron Microscopy at the Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Berkeley Lab.

The researchers relied on a technique developed at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a research facility for nanoscale science, to image the individual molecules that make up these structures.