News and Notes

interactions within the CFN community

May 21, 2020

The CFN is part of a Lab-wide effort to marshal experimental capabilities and computational resources in the fight against COVID-19. Read the full story.

News Stories

• Organic Spacers Improve LED Performance
• Water is Key in Catalytic Conversion of Methane to Methanol
• Stabilizing High-Efficiency Solar Cells
• Brookhaven Lab Mobilizes Resources in Fight Against COVID-19
• Upgrading Biomass with Selective Surface-Modified Catalysts
• Atomic Defect Lines Suppress Deactivation of Iron Oxide Catalysts
• Chasing Lithium Ions on the Move in a Fast-Charging Battery
• Protecting DNA Origami for Anti-Cancer Drug Delivery
• Gold in Limbo Between Solid and Melted States
• Beating the Heat in the Living Wings of Butterflies

Research Highlights

• Platinum-free Nanocatalysts Provide a Fuel Cell Boost
• Fighting Cancer with DNA Origami
• Quantum Materials Cloak Thermal Radiation
• Nanodiamonds Shine with Single Photons
• Machine Learning Accelerates High-Resolution X-ray Imaging
• Harvesting Light with Nature-inspired Nanoantennae
• A New Pathway to Highly Interconnected Nanoarchitectures

Awards and Honors

Service Awards

• 15-Year Service Award: Lihua Zhang, Staff Scientist, Electron Microscopy
• 10-Year Service Award: Kevin Yager, Group Leader, Electronic Nanomaterials
• 5-Year Service Award: Samuel Tenney, Associate Scientist, Interface Science and Catalysis

Comings and Goings

New Hires

• Essala Lowe, Assistant Director of Operations

Alumni

• Raymond Fullon, Research Associate, Interface Science and Catalysis
• Mingjie Liu, Research Associate, Theory and Computation

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