NATIONAL
SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE
1997 ACTIVITY
REPORT
SCIENCE
HIGHLIGHTS
Articles and Authors
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APPLIED
SCIENCES
(PDF
file)| Asbestos Abatement | J. A. Hriljac, C. Eylem, Q. Zhu, R. Sabatini, L. Petrakis (Brookhaven National Lab), R. Hu, and J. Block (W.R. Grace and Co.) | pg. 1 | |
| NEXAFS
Microscopy of Polymers: Phase Separation and
Dewetting in Polymer Thin Films and Bilayers |
H. Ade, D. A. Winesett, A. P. Smith (Dept. of Physics, NCSU), S. Ge, S. Qu, M. Rafailovich, S. Sokolov (Dept. of Materials Science and Engr., SUNY @ Stony Brook), and D. Slep (Advanced Development and Research, Hilord Chemical Corp., Hauppauge, NY) | pg. 2 | |
| Microbeam Diffraction Studies of Interfacial Strain | I.C. Noyan, J.L. Jordan-Sweet, E.G. Liniger, and S.K. Kaldor (IBM Research Division, Yorktown Heights, NY) | pg. 6 |
BIOLOGICAL
SCIENCES (PDF file)| The Structure of the GroEL/GroES/ADP Complex | Z. Xu, A. Horwich and P. Sigler (Yale University) | pg. 1 | |
| Crystal Structure of Bovine Mitochondrial Cytochrome bc1 Complex, An Essential Component of Cellular Power Plant | D. Xia1,
C. A. Yu2, H. Kim1, A.
Kachurin2, L. Zhang2, L. Yu2,
and J. Deisenhofer1 1 HHMI & Dept of Biochemistry, U. Texas, Southwestern Medical Center 2 Dept of Biochemistry, Oklahoma State U. |
pg. 2 | |
| Structural Lyme-ology | C. L. Lawson, H. Li, M. Becker, and W. Ding (BNL Biology Department) | pg. 4 | |
| The Structure of the Human Natural Killer Cell Inhibitory Receptor | Q. Fan, L. Mosyak, and D.C. Wiley (Harvard University) | pg. 5 | |
| The Structure of the Cre Recombinase/DNA Complex | F. Guo, D.N. Gopaul, and G.D. Van Duyne (University of Pennsylvania) | pg. 6 | |
| Crystal Structure of the P4-P6 Domain from a Group Ribozyme Reveals Principles of RNA Packing | J. Cate and J. Doudna (Yale University) | pg. 8 | |
| The Structure of a
Component of the AIDS Virus: the Carboxyl-Terminal Dimerization Domain of the HIV-1 Capsid Protein |
T. R. Gamble, S. Yoo, F.F. Vajdos, U.K. von Schwedler, D.K. Worthylake, H. Wang, P. McCutcheon, W.I. Sundquist, C.P. Hill (University of Utah) | pg. 10 |
Chemical
Sciences
(PDF
file)| Analysis of Model Automotive Exhaust Catalysts: The Oxidation and Reduction of CeO2 | D. R. Mullins, D. R. Huntley and S. H. Overbury (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), G. N. Glavee (Lawrence University) | pg. 1 | |
| Dynamic Effects in Core Excitation of Small Molecules | B. Kempgens, A. Kivimaki, M.N. Piancastelli, K. Maier, H.M. Koppe, M. Neeb, U. Hergenhahn, and A. M. Bradshaw (Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin) | pg. 4 |
Geological
Sciences (PDF file)| Monochromatic X-Ray Diffraction and Time-Resolved Measurements at High Pressure and Temperature | J. Chen (SUNY at Stony Brook) | pg.1 | |
| Synchrotron X-radiation, Ultrasonics, and the Composition of the Earth | M. T. Vaughan (Center for High Pressure Research, State University of New York at Stony Brook) | pg. 4 | |
| Detection of Organic Compounds Associated with Carbonate Globules and Rims in the ALH84001 Meteorite from Mars | G. J. Flynn (Dept. of Physics, SUNY-Plattsburgh), L. P. Keller, M. A. Miller (MVA, Inc.), C. Jacobsen and S. Wirick (Dept. of Physics, SUNY-Stony Brook) | pg. 6 |
Instrumentation
and Techniques
(PDF
file)| Synchrotron
Infrared Microspectroscopy: A New Technique for Probing the Chemical Composition of Bone and its Implications for Understanding Osteoarthritis |
L. M. Miller, D. Hamerman, and M.R. Chance (Albert Einstein Center for Synchrotron Biosciences), G. L. Carr and G. P. Williams (NSLS), Cathy S. Carlson (Bowman Gray School of Medicine) | pg. 1 | |
| Macromolecular Crystallography Area Detectors | Lonny Berman (NSLS) | pg. 3 | |
| Nearly Automatic Macromolecular Crystallography at the NSLS | T. Terwilliger, J. Berendzen (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J. Skinner, R. Sweet (BNL Biology Department) | pg. 4 | |
| Soft X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy (X1B) | K. Smith et al. (Boston U.) | pg. 7 | |
| Fermi Surface Mapping in Photoemisson | P.D. Johnson, T. Valla, and A.V. Fedorov (BNL Physics Department) | pg. 9 |
Material
Sciences
(PDF file)| Surface Magnetic Ordering: A Spin-PolarizedPhotoemission Study of Thin Films of Gd | P. Dowben and C. Waldfried (University of Nebraska), E. Vescovo (NSLS) | pg. 1 | |
| First Observation of Half-Metallic Behavior: A Spin-Polarized Photoemission Study of Thin Films of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 | J.-H. Park, E. Vescovo, and H.-J. Kim (NSLS) | pg. 3 | |
| The c-axis Optical Response of Y1-xCaxBa2Cu3O7-d Single Crystals Studied by Far Infrared Ellipsometry | C. Bernhard, R. Henn, A. Wittlin, W. König, and M. Cardona (Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung) | pg. 5 | |
| Surface Alloys: An Auger Photoelectron Coincidence Spectroscopy Study | R.A. Bartynski, and Q. Qian (Rutgers University), and S.L. Hulbert (NSLS) | pg. 9 | |
| Large Value of the Electron-Phonon Coupling Parameter lambda = 1.15 and the Possibility of Surface Superconductivity at the Be(0001) Surface | T. Balasubramanian and E. Jensen (Brandeis University), X.L. Wu and S.L. Hulbert (NSLS) | pg. 12 | |
| Characterizing Interfacial Magnetic Roughness | J. Freeland and Y. Idzerda (NRL) | pg. 14 | |
| Resonant Inelastic Scattering Studies of 4f rare Earth Compounds | F. Bartolome, J.M. Tonnerre, L. Seve, and D. Raoux (CNRS, France), J. Chaboy and L.M. Garcia (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón, Spain), M. Krisch (ESRF), and C.-C. Kao (NSLS) | pg. 17 | |
| Resonant Inelastic Scattering Study of Nd2CuO4 | J.P. Hill, C.-C. Kao, W.A.C. Caliebe (BNL), M. Mastubara, A Kotani (ISSP, Tokyo), J.L. Peng and R.L. Greene (University of Maryland, College Park) | pg. 17 | |
| Bond-length Distortions in Strained Semiconductor Alloys | J.C. Woicik (NIST) | pg. 18 |
Nuclear
Science
(PDF
file)| The N to Delta Transition from Simultaneous Measurements of p ( gamma, pi ) and p ( gamma, gamma ) | The LEGS Collaboration - Beamline X5 | pg. 1 |
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