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Spectroscopy
01.24.2018
The behavior of iron at high temperatures and pressures plays an important part in our understanding of Earth's interior. Scientists must quantify how iron's physical and chemical characteristics are ...
6-ID-D, 20-BM-B
07.16.2018
Peng Zhang and his collaborators study remarkable, tiny self-assembling clusters of gold and protein that glow a bold red. And they’re useful: protein-gold nanoclusters could be used to detect harmf...
20-BM-B
10.05.2018
A longer-lasting, higher-efficiency platinum catalyst has been developed by a Dalhousie University-led team working at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source, and at the Canadian Lig...
20-BM-B
02.11.2019
New research offers the first complete picture of why a promising approach of stuffing more lithium into battery cathodes leads to their failure. A better understanding of this could be the key to sma...
11-ID-B, 20-BM-B
09.21.2020
Converting carbon dioxide and water into ethanol efficiently and cheaply could reduce the amount of CO2 that is released into the atmosphere. Researchers designed a novel catalyst to break down CO2 wi...
12-BM-B, 20-BM-B
10.19.2020
As the lithium-ion industry continues to grow, so does the use of cobalt or nickel, straining scarce metal resources. To sustain this continued growth, development of new cathodes with high energy den...
11-ID-B, 20-BM-B
12.26.2020
Transforming Clean Energy Technology: A breakthrough by researchers using the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source and Advanced Light Source could eliminate a critical obstacle from t...
17-BM-B, 20-BM-B
03.16.2021
Researchers used the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source to reveal the structural evolution of inorganic cluster growth and crystallization resulting from sequential infiltration synt...
11-ID-B, 20-BM-B
04.11.2022
Pivotal Battery Discovery Could Impact Transportation and the Grid: Researchers using the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source have discovered a key reason for the performance degrad...
11-ID-C, 20-BM-B
01.20.2023
A Cheaper and Safer Alternative to Lithium-Ion Batteries: Because the sun isn't always shining and the wind isn't always blowing, solar and wind power both need a way to store the renewable energy t...
20-BM-B
01.24.2023
Increasing the Efficiency of Carbon Conversion: One method of combating climate change would be to capture carbon emissions at the source and convert them into some other material, preferably one wit...
12-BM-B, 20-BM-B
01.30.2023
Fine-Grained Differences in Polycrystalline Nickel-Rich Li-Ion Battery Cathodes: A team of investigators used the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source to study a largely overlooked so...
11-ID-C, 20-BM-B
01.04.2024
As our everyday lives become ever more dependent on battery technology – specifically the lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) that power our smartphones, laptop computers, electric vehicles, and other port...
17-BM-B, 20-BM-B
06.25.2024
Splitting water using renewable electricity to produce green hydrogen is seen by many as essential for achieving net-zero carbon emissions. A group of scientists has recently demonstrated a new type o...
12-BM-B, 17-BM-B, 20-BM-B
08.22.2018
A team of researchers utilizing two U.S. Department of Energy synchrotron x-ray sources, including the Advanced Photon Source, have shown how to shuttle lithium ions back and forth into the crystal st...
12-ID-C,D, 20-ID-B,C, 33-ID-D,E
09.22.2020
Work is based on research at two U.S. Department of Energy x-ray light sources including the Advanced Photon Source is part of a new study that solves a key, fundamental barrier in the electrochemical...
2-ID-E, 20-ID-B,C, 34-ID-E
02.08.2021
Ironing Out Technetium Contamination: Millions of medical imaging procedures each year rely on radioactive technetium. One of its radioisotopes, technetium-99, is very long-lived, poses a risk to the...
20-ID-B,C
03.09.2021
Revealing Platinum's Role in Clean Fuel Conversion: Because platinum is rare and expensive, scientists have been seeking ways to create catalysts that use less of this precious metal. Research at a n...
20-ID-B,C
11.22.2021
Bromine is Not Useful as Paleo-Diet Indicator: Researchers using high-brightness x-rays from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source analyzed bromine in human bones and teeth excavat...
20-ID-B,C
04.18.2022
Peeling Onions to Help Crops Withstand Drought and Disease: Researchers explored how calcium and boron play a beneficial role in strengthening plant cell walls, helping reduce the dehydration that com...
20-ID-B,C
02.29.2024
Three-dimensional carbon superstructures are useful in a wide variety of applications, including batteries, catalysis and gas storage. Now scientists have come up with an easy and inexpensive way to m...
12-ID-C,D, 20-ID-B,C
06.05.2018
What if a major heat-trapping greenhouse gas could be consumed to produce a valuable chemical that is in short supply? Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have...
9-BM-B,C
10.11.2018
Solid catalysts are utilized in approximately 9 out of 10 processes in the chemical industry to speed up the manufacture of everything from pharmaceuticals to pesticides. Solid catalysts are easily se...
9-BM-B,C
10.15.2018
Even as our electronic devices become ever more sophisticated and versatile, battery technology remains a stubborn bottleneck, preventing the full realization of promising applications such as electri...
9-BM-B,C, 17-BM-B
04.14.2020
Experimenters used the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source to study an electrolyzer design they developed that is highly effective in using electricity to produce hydrogen in neutral ...
9-BM-B,C
09.01.2020
Developing hydrogen as a fuel is important for both economic and environmental reasons. This work carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source advances our understanding ...
9-BM-B,C, 11-ID-D
04.16.2021
Altering the Fate of Phosphorus Fertilizer in Mildly Calcareous Soils: Crops treated with phosphorous fertilizer raise crop yields and return-on-investment, but it can be the limiting factor in crop ...
9-BM-B,C
10.11.2021
Fine Tuning Single-Atom Catalysts with LCSCs: Single-atom catalysis has offered possibilities to increase catalyst selectivity and efficiency, but stability can be a problem. One possible solution i...
9-BM-B,C
08.29.2022
Revealing the Source of Degradation in an Advanced Lithium-ion Battery Cathode: The durability of lithium-ion batteries depends highly on the performance of the cathode, the battery's positive electr...
9-BM-B,C, 11-ID-C, 34-ID-C
09.22.2023
Perovskite-type minerals are environmentally friendly and fairly efficient catalysts, but to improve the rate for widespread use, scientists need to understand which characteristics most influence the...
9-BM-B,C
09.22.2023
Producing alcohol from captured carbon emissions could help fight climate change and aid the burgeoning renewable carbon economy. Using the Advanced Photon Source, a group of scientists have shown tha...
9-BM-B,C