Douglas S. Clark elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Daniel Nomura receives ASPIRE Award from The Mark Foundation
Nomura has received an ASPIRE award for his project Chemoproteomics-Enabled Covalent Ligand Discovery Platforms for Accessing Novel Druggable Modalities.

Big data at the atomic scale comes to Berkeley
A newly installed nano scale electron detector at the Berkeley Lab offers unprecedented access for scientists to capture new data.

Stephen Leone and Norman Yao receive Keck Foundation funding
The scientists will utilize a new technique, ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy, to address important unanswered questions about the formation of non-equilibrium topological phases.

John Hartwig awarded 2019 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
The award recognizes and encourages individual contributions to the elucidation of the mechanism and active sites involved in catalytic phenomena.

Imaging polymer’s atomic-scale structure

This image shows a rendering (gray and pink) of the molecular structure of a peptoid polymer that was studied by a team led by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley. The successful imaging of a polymer’s atomic-scale structure could inform new designs for plastics, like those that form the water bottles shown in the background. Image credit: Berkeley Lab, Charles Rondeau/ PublicDomainPictures.net

New manganese materials bolster cathode capacity

An array of lithium-ion batteries stacked side by side. Conventional lithium-ion batteries made from cobalt-based cathodes (orange) and a battery with a manganese-based cathode made from two new materials (blue). The cathode structures are depicted under the surface of the batteries. The new manganese-based materials have a disordered rocksalt structure that provides higher energy density than cobalt-based batteries. A manganese ion (blue sphere) yields two electrons during the battery discharge cycle, delivering twice the capacity of the cobalt ion (orange sphere), which only yields one electron. Image courtesy of Advanced Light Source.
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