Graduate student Riley Fricke sits down with Jeff Pelton (Ph.D. '90, Chem) the manager of QB3-Berkeley’s 900 MHz NMR Facility, to discuss the facility and recent research that NMR spectroscopy has helped support.
Seniors Brendan Huang and Carolyn Hong, who both have received the COVID-19 vaccine and are in the same social bubble, met in an organic chemistry lab as sophomores, became fast friends and wound up baking sourdough bread together. It’s an adventure that Hong calls “our...Read more about COVID Stories: Sourdough bread with a purpose
Scientists at Berkeley Lab’s predecessor, the UC Radiation Laboratory, discovered berkelium in 1949, and californium in 1950. Today, Berkeley Lab scientists are using state-of-the-art instruments at the Molecular Foundry to better understand how actinides like berkelium and...Read more about Do You Know the Way to Berkelium, Californium?
Relaxing with some friends in Shanghai during a meeting. Clockwise direction: Omar Yaghi (back to camera), Osamu Terasaki, Chia-Kuang (Frank) Tsung, Yue-Biao Zhang, Qiaowei Li, Stefan Wuttke, Keinan Ehud, Peidong Yang. Photo courtesy ...Read more about In Memoriam: Chia-Kuang (Frank) Tsung
Mexican fan palms, native to the deserts of northwestern Mexico, are a widely-planted ornamental throughout the Los Angeles basin and are contributing substantially to the organic aerosol pollution in the area, according to a UC Berkeley study. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons...Read more about With drop in LA’s vehicular aerosol pollution, plants emerge as major source