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A New Way to Engineer Composite Materials By Rachel Berkowitz
Silica nanoparticles affixed with a distribution of polystyrene chains (purple) self-assemble into hexagonal lattices. Depending on how the chains are organized on the particle surface, they tangle together (purple) or unravel (blue) when compressed. (Credit: Tiffany Chen; Ting Xu) You can find the article here: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/03/06/a-new-way-to-engineer-composite-materials/
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Meet the Autonomous Lab of the Future By Lauren Biron April 17, 2023
Berkeley Lab researcher Yan Zeng looks over the starting point at A-Lab. The new lab combines automation and artificial intelligence to speed up materials science discovery. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab) MSE’s Prof. Ceder’s automated lab, A-Lab, is featured at LBNL news: Robots operate instruments and artificial intelligence makes decisions to find useful new materials at the…
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Wide Band Gap Chalcogenide Semiconductors
Wide Band Gap Chalcogenide Semiconductors Scientists at UC Berkeley / Berkeley Lab (R. Woods-Robinson and K. Persson) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have released a comprehensive review of a unique, emerging class of materials called “wide band gap chalcogenide semiconductors”. These are materials composed of chalcogen elements (sulfur, selenium, and tellurium) that are both…
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Crystal with a twist: scientists grow spiraling new material
Crystal with a twist: scientists grow spiraling new material Prof. Jie Yao’s team have created new inorganic crystals made of stacks of atomically thin sheets that unexpectedly spiral like a nanoscale card deck. Their surprising structures, reported in a new study appearing in the Wednesday, June 20 issue of the journal Nature, may yield unique optical, electronic and…
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