Advanced Search   Search Tips		Materials Sciences Berkeley Scientists Bring MRI/NMR to Microreactors Debut of TEAM 0.5, the World's Best Microscope Feeling the Heat: Berkeley Researchers Make Thermoelectric Breakthrough in Silicon Nanowires Smaller is Stronger — Now Scientists Know Why Going Live With Click Chemistry: Berkeley Researchers Create a Copper-free Version of the Technique Good Vibrations: Using Terahertz Radiation to Control Material Properties Berkeley Researchers Find New Way To Fabricate Striped Nanorods Bright Future for Nano-sized Light Source Lab-on-a-Chip Device from Berkeley Lab to Speed Proteomics Research A Boost for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research HYPER-CEST MRI Breaks New Ground in Molecular Imaging Nanocrystals Are Hot Germanium Nanocrystals Embedded in Glass: They're Hotter Before They Melt and Colder Before They Freeze MRI On the Cheap and On the Go A New Window into the Deformation of Nanoscale Materials Cell Surface Profiling Technique Could Yield Cancer Blood Test Berkeley Lab Dedicates the Molecular Foundry Nanoscale Tubing Assembles Itself Instantly Secrets of the Sea Yield Stronger Artificial Bone Sunny Future for Nanocrystal Solar Cells Berkeley Scientists Synthesize Cheap, Easy-to-Make Ultra-thin Photovoltaic Films NMR Technology Comes to the Lab on a Chip Remote Detection Makes NMR Compatible with Microfluidics Of Friction and "The Da Vinci Code" A Sharper Focus for Soft x-rays Zone Plate Lenses Capable of Better than 15-Nanometer Resolution A Few Steps Closer to Nanoscale Photonic Technology Portable High-Resolution NMR Sensor Unveiled Spectroscopy for the Real World Scientists Find Atomic Clues to Tougher Ceramics Nanocrystals Show a Quick Route to Change A Guiding Light on the Nanoscale The First Engineering of Cell Surfaces in Living Animals A New Advance in Gallium Nitride Nanowires Tuning the Nanoworld New Methods for Constructing Nanostructures and Calculating Their Electronic States A Conveyor Belt for the Nano-Age Detection at a Distance for More Sensitive MRI Doping Buckyballs With Atoms, One at a Time Researchers Tune the Electronic Properties of Individual C60 Molecules Imaging Lithium Atoms One Angstrom Microscope's observations of the smallest, lightest metal atoms are a first for electron microscopy Eight-fold quantum states blossom in a high-temperature superconductor An unexpected discovery could yield a full spectrum solar cell John Clarke and Alexander Pines named in new "Scientific American 50" list of visionaries Water Molecules Star in Action Movies AN EXCITING NEW STATE FOR EXCITONS A Most Unusual Superconductor and How It Works ALEXANDER PINES ELECTED TO FOREIGN MEMBERSHIP IN ROYAL SOCIETY Two Berkeley Lab Scientists Win National Medal of Science NEW HYBRID SOLAR CELLS COMBINE NANOTECH WITH PLASTICS Pointing the way to granular superconductivity in BSCCO DISORDERLY SUPERCONDUCTORS CAUGHT IN THE ACT: Atom by atom, researchers track down granularity in a high-temperature superconductor Probing High-Temperature Superconductivity on the Nanoscale New Nanowire Nanolaser One-Thousandth Diameter of a Human Hair New Technique for High-resolution NMR Spectroscopy Outside the Magnet Producing Pure Oxygen Onsite With Electrolytic System Berkeley Researchers Fashion First Transistors from Single Buckyballs Electronic Fabrication Process Focused on Enhancing Catalysts Hastening the Advent of Solid-State Lighting Nano-sized Bearings and Switches Seemingly Frictionless Carbon Nanotubes Show Surprising Sensitivity to Oxygen Researchers Make First Rod-shaped Semiconductor Nanocrystals New Bioactive Metal Coating Allows Metal Implants To Bond With Bone Sparks Fly As Novel Metallic Glass Throws Off Sparks Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Outside of a Vacuum New Photoemission Electron Microscope Commissioned Electronic Properties of Properties Revealed by New Microscope Semiconductor Nanocrystals: The Next Thing in Fluorescent Probes New Technique Reveals Identity of Near-Neighbor Atoms Resistivity Under Pressure: Copper-Doped Germanium Carbon-36 Fullerenes Could Be High-Temperature Superconductor Breakthrough in X-Ray Microscopy Opens New View Inside Living Cells Atom-Sized Electronic Devices Identified Within Carbon Nanotubes Cellular Engineers Design Custom Cell Surfaces Able To Adhere To Synthetic Materials New Sensor Provides First Instant Test for Toxic E. Coli Organism First Materials Discovered By Combinatorial Synthesis; Process Creates Whole New Libraries of Materials Metal Libraries Accelerate Search for Advanced Materials Tiny Metal Libraries a Big Tool for Materials Scientists Talking Pictures: New Techniques Enhance NMR Spectroscopy New Technique Enhances Sensitivity of Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Molecules in Solution Scientist Designs Self-Assembling Composite Materials at Nanometer Scale Gearing Up for the Age of Nanotechnology: Surfaces Under Study Electron Microscope Reveals Magic Sizes in Metal Alloys Taking the Jiggles Out of One Angstrom Microscopy New Medical Imaging Technique Could Allow NMR/MRI to Trace Phenomena in Blood and Tissue Breakthrough Reported in Fabricating Superconducting Wire Tapes New Superconducting Wire Tapes Carry Ten Times the Currents of Predecessors Practical, Hand-Held Radiation Detector Developed Superhard Material Harder Than Diamond Receives Patent Scientists Generate First Directed Beams of Femtosecond X-rays Stopping the Action: New Microscope Freezes Action in Picosecond Resolution Catalysis Demonstrated on a Nanometer Scale Clusters: A New State of Matter National Center for Electron Microscopy Opens New Wing Dahmen Named Director of Berkeley Lab's National Center for Electron Microscopy Electron Microscopy: A Decade as the Key to Advances in Materials Science (Magazine Article) First Microscopic Images of Water Condensing Reveal Underlying Layer of Ice New Microscope Reveals Secrets of Liquids at Nanometer Scale Theory on Antarctic Ozone Hole Boosted by New Observations Confirming Wet Surface of Ice Buckyballs: Tapping into their Enormous Potential Single Crystal Buckballs Synthesized and Characterized. Scientists Study Optical Properties of Fullerenes New Technique Produces Magnetic Thin Films at a Fraction of Current Cost Catalysis on a Nanometer Scale Demonstrated for First Time SQUIDS: Realizing the Promise of High Temperature Superconductors Superconducting Magnetometers Under Development for Medical, Industrial Uses "Images of Materials" -- A Book Review Microscopes Measure Friction at Atomic Level Berkeley Lab to host Molecular Design Institute Berkeley Lab Wins Grant To Create Molecular Design Institute Shape Changes in Ceramic Particles: A Paradox Explained Novel Thin Film Able to Grow Totally Aligned Crystals; Electronics Industry Applications Possible Imaging Individual Atoms With Scanning Tunneling Microscopes (Magazine Article) Protein Stability Under Study Using Unnatural Amino Acids "Walking" Microscope Views Atomic Details in Semiconductors Environmentally Safe Semiconductor Production Under Investigation New Coating Process Makes Higher-Efficiency Engines Possible Invention Could Reduce Flat Panel Display Manufacturing Costs Berkeley Lab Develops Award-Winning Cold Plasma Source New Steel Testing Technique Under Development National Report Predicts Optics Revolution New Archaeological Tools Help Identify Origins of Ancient Materials