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High-throughput X-ray diffraction instrument comes to Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source

July 1, 2020 sarah Jonas Accelerator Science And Engineering, Advanced Photon Source, photon sciences, Synchrotron Science, X-Ray Science and Technology, X-ray Science Division (XSD)

A collaboration between Argonne and several universities has led to the creation of a new high-throughput X-ray diffraction instrument that will enable materials research and clear the way for improvements in advance of the APS Upgrade.

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Argonne scientists fashion new class of X-ray detector

April 23, 2020 sarah Jonas Accelerator Science And Engineering, Advanced Photon Source (APS), Detectors, Instrumentation, Sensors And Detectors, Synchrotron Science, X-Ray Science and Technology

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne and Los Alamos National Laboratories have identified a new class of X-ray detectors based on layered perovskites, a semiconducting material.

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Argonne’s researchers and facilities playing a key role in the fight against COVID-19

March 27, 2020 sarah Jonas Accelerator Science And Engineering, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), BIOCHEMISTRY, Biology, Biomedical Computing, Biosciences, Chemistry, Computational Biology, Computational Science, Computing, Environment and Life Sciences, Crystallography, Data Science and Learning, Decision and Infrastructure Sciences Division, Decision science, Disaster Management, Diseases, Energy and Global Security, global security, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Systems Modeling, Machine Learning, Mathematics and Computer Science, Medical Science, Modeling And Simulation, Molecular Biology, Molecular Dynamics, pharmacology, photon sciences, proteins, Proteomics, Resilience, Structural Biology, Synchrotron Science, X-Ray Science and Technology

Argonne scientists are working around the clock to analyze the virus to find new treatments and cures, predict how it will propagate through the population, and make sure that our supply chains remain intact.

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Scientists Discover New Clue Behind Age-Related Diseases and Food Spoilage

February 26, 2020 sarah Jonas Advanced Light Source, Age-related Diseases, aging adults, Alzheimer's Disease, ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY, Avocado, BIOCHEMISTRY, Cancer, Chronic Diseases, Dementia, Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Energy Office of Science, food science and nutrition, Fuels, Hydroxyl, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lipids, Mass Spectrometry, meat, Neurodegenative Disease, Organic Chemistry, Oxidation, Oxygen, Ozone, Parkinson's Disease, Plastic, Pollution, Synchrotron Science, ultraviolet light

Berkeley Lab scientists have made a surprising discovery that could help explain our risk for developing chronic diseases or cancers as we get older, and how our food decomposes over time.

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How sweet: Researchers find what makes chocolate melt in your mouth

October 21, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Accelerator Science And Engineering, Advanced Photon Source, Beamline Operations, materials science and engineering, Scientific User Facilities, Synchrotron Science, X-Ray Science and Technology

Researchers have used X-ray techniques to investigate particular features of the geometric configuration of tiny particles of chocolate to see how they impact mouthfeel.

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Seeing sound: Scientists observe how acoustic interactions change materials at the atomic level

September 23, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments ACOUSTICS, Advanced Photon Source (APS), Center for Molecular Engineering, Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), Materials Science & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Nanomaterials, Nanoscience, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, photon sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, Physics, Quantum information science, quantum materials, Quantum Mechanics, Scientific User Facilities, Synchrotron Science, X-Ray Science and Technology

By using sound waves, scientists have begun to explore fundamental stress behaviors in a crystalline material that could form the basis for quantum information technologies.

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