Scientists Examine Platinum-Based Catalyst Design
Working as a team, scientists from SIMES and the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis studied two platinum-rhodium nanostructures, identifying the most active sites…
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Working as a team, scientists from SIMES and the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis studied two platinum-rhodium nanostructures, identifying the most active sites…
By using a thin sliver of diamond to filter a laser beam to a single X-ray color, scientists have transformed the Linac Coherent Light Source…
By targeting super-thin aluminum with X-rays at LCLS, scientists were able to analyze and pinpoint how much energy it takes to knock electrons from highly…
Using a pump-probe technique, scientists at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source used terahertz frequencies of light to change the magnetic state of a sample and…
Using a modified version of Cytochrome P450 17A1, scientists from the University of Kansas have solved the structure of CYP17A1 for the first time, which…
In an effort to improve the cycle life of lithium-sulfur batteries and to find new ways to develop commercially viable lithium-sulfur batteries for electric vehicles,…
With yesterday’s announcement of the likely discovery of the Higgs boson, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory takes a moment to reflect on how we got to…
After exciting small, light-sensitive hydrocarbon molecules with light from an ultraviolet laser, Scientists at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source then made quadrillionths-of-a-second snapshots of the…
While working with SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, a team of scientists showed that LCLS can drive a paradigm shift in imaging airborne particles, allowing…
While conducting experiments with the LCLS’s Atomic Molecular Optical instrument, a team of SLAC physicists found that the damage process in nanometer-sized clusters of atoms…
Initial results from BaBar data suggest that a particular type of particle decay called “B to D-star-tau-nu” happens more often than the Standard Model says…
A new technique developed by an international research team uses X-ray laser pulses from SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source to zap the innermost electrons out…
Scientists from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Palermo examined a weapon that an ancient warship used to ram enemy ships in the…
Scientists from the Berkeley Lab and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are using the Linac Coherent Light Source to research a tiny cluster of molecules that…
While studying neutrino properties and searching for a mechanism called “neutrinoless double-beta decay,” scientists at the Enriched Xenon Observatory 200 found with the highest degree…
A recent low energy test with SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source proved that the X-ray laser could dip more deeply into the so-called “water window,”…
Researchers from SLAC and Stanford have teamed with scientists at the Max Planck Institute to examine catalysts in an effort to find an efficient way…
By combining observations from the Large Area Telescope and the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia, scientists have found a new technique for hunting pulsars. The…