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Smoother Surfaces Make for Better Particle Accelerators An enhanced topographic analysis toolkit for forecasting and improving particle accelerator performance is helping scientists build better accelerators.
Smoother Surfaces Make for Better Particle Accelerators An enhanced topographic analysis toolkit for forecasting and improving particle accelerator performance is helping scientists build better accelerators.
Making Difficult Quantum Many-Body Calculations Possible Solving quantum many-body problems with wavefunction matching.
Could a Magnetic Sandwich Make Your Electronic Devices Work More Efficiently? Layers of a surface-conducting material, sandwiched between layers of a magnetic insulator, could lead to more powerful, energy-efficient electronics.

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Highly porous MOFs can trap toxic gas molecules and prevent them from entering the atmosphere and can also be used to build sensors. This illustration shows the material’s normal luminescence (left) switched off in the presence of harmful gases (right).

Lying in Wait: MOF Are Traps for Toxic Gases

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(A) The ultra-intense X-ray beams delivered by the unique superconducting helical undulator. (B) Ultrafast multi-pulse X-ray images. (C) Analysis of a region of interest. (D) A high-resolution velocity map of the near-nozzle spray.

Tiny Cavitation Bubbles Enhance Energy Conversion in Fuel Injectors’ Jets

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Illustration of electron transfer driven by an ultrashort laser pulse across an interface between two atomically thin materials. An electronic interlayer “bridge” state emitting lattice vibrations in the layers facilitates this electron transfer.

New Mechanism Explains Rapid Energy Sharing Across Atomic Semiconductor Junctions

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Schematic of a plasma wakefield accelerator using optical laser beams and electron driver, escort, and witness beams for generating bright, coherent X-ray laser beams with attosecond duration and sub-Angstrom wavelength.

Ice-Cold Plasma Electron Beams Prepare to Power Future Hard X-ray Laser Beams

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Team members pose in the clean room (left). Thermal image of the 10.4 kW uranium-238 beam on the target (top right). Three never-before-seen isotopes, shown to the right of the red line on the particle identification plot (bottom right).

Scientists Accelerate Uranium Beam with Record Power

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams opens a new research avenue and observes three new rare isotopes.

The Compton polarimeter’s laser system, used to measure electrons’ parallel spin, is aligned during the Calcium Radius Experiment in Hall A of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

Laser-Sharp Look at Spinning Electrons Sets the Stage for New Physics Discoveries

Nuclear physicists shatter a nearly 30-year-old record for the measurement of parallel spin within an electron beam.

Two examples of silicon photoelectrodes. Left: Micropillar silicon with cobalt catalysts reduces carbon dioxide (CO2) to methanol (CH3OH). Right: Porous silicon with rhenium catalysts reduces carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO).

For Solar Fuels, More Surface Area on Photoelectrodes Makes a Difference

High-surface area silicon improves light-driven reactions of carbon dioxide.

Scanning tunneling microscope map of a device made of three atomic layers of graphene. The contrast reveals the wavefunction of a chiral interface state (bright stripe) between two insulating regions having opposite chirality (dark color sides).

Chiral Asymmetry Creates a Path to High-Efficiency Future Electronics

Scientists learn how to manipulate quantum properties in graphene to create resistance-free, electricity channels for loss-free future electronics.

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This image shows a snapshot of the order parameter in a fluctuating quark gluon liquid. Green regions are in the quark gluon phase, blue regions in the hadron phase.

Simulating a Critical Point in Quark Gluon Fluid

A simulation of a rapidly accreting white dwarf showing a proposed site for the intermediate (i) process and the Summing NaI (SuN) detector. The research studied the 139Ba+n reaction, constrained by the beta decay of 140Cs into 140Ba.

Nuclear Physics Experiment Helps Identify Conditions for a New Astrophysical Process

Photograph of an optically trapped microparticle in high vacuum. The microparticle is visible as a white dot levitated between two lenses, which are used to focus and collect the invisible infrared laser light used to trap the particle.

Detecting the “Kick” from a Single Nuclear Decay

This image shows (a) the Nature magazine cover; (b) the single atom X-ray mechanism; (c) a supramolecular ring with one iron atom; (d) X-ray spectra of one iron atom; (e) a terbium dimer complex; (f) the X-ray spectra of one terbium atom.

For the First Time, Scientists X-Ray a Single Atom

Color map of the differential conductance as a function of increasing magnetic field (x axis) in niobium deposited on 2D molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe2). The red spikes are oscillations of the MoTe2 edge supercurrent due to magnetic field flux.

Superconductivity Is Unpredictable at the Edge

Artist’s representation of gene expression in mycorrhizae-colonized roots as obtained by the combination of single-cell and spatial gene expression analyses.

Researchers Use a New Two-Dimensional Analysis to Build a Map of Gene Expression in Plant-Fungi Interactions

Shale is physically and chemically complex at all scales of interest. Multimodal, multiscale imaging, and characterization allows researchers to study how to control the transport and reactivity of matter inside complex porous structures such as shale.

Scientists Characterize Shale Cap Rocks at Tiny Scales

For the first time, researchers simultaneously achieved density above a historical empirical limit (>1.0) and very good confinement (~1.5) in a tokamak device.

Ground-Breaking Efforts Overcome an Operational Limit of Tokamaks, Advancing Efforts to Achieve Fusion Energy

Nanocrystals (left) capture light (hv) and then transfer electrons (e-) to nitrogenase enzymes (upper right) to convert dinitrogen (N2) to ammonia (NH3). A sacrificial reaction (bottom right) completes the process.

Powering Enzymes with Light to Make Ammonia

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