News and Research Highlights
September 27, 2023
News Stories
- Strength Is in This Glass's DNA
- Valleytronics is Warming Up at Brookhaven Lab
- Making Big Leaps in Understanding Nanoscale Gaps
- Armando Rúa Named Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator
- Department of Energy Announces $73 Million for Basic Research to Accelerate the Transition from Discovery to Commercialization
- Scientists use ORNL's Summit Supercomputer to Learn How Cicada Wings Kill Bacteria
- Material Improvements
Research Highlights
- Understanding the Tantalizing Benefits of Tantalum for Qubits
- Rare & Efficient Energy Transfer in 2D Material Heterostructures
- In Fuel Cell Catalysts, Three Elements are Better than One
Awards and Honors
Jason Kahn and Chang-Yong Nam were both awarded two-year, BNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) grants:
- Jason: Assembly of DNA architectures on patterned surfaces for design of next generation electronics and sensors.
- Chang-Yong: Integrate hybrid organic/inorganic nanomaterials into CMOS array architectures for energy efficient memristor computing.
Chang-Yong also won a DOE Accelerate Innovations in Emerging Technologies Program 2-year, $8M grant for “Angstrom Era Semiconductor Patterning Material Development Accelerator.”
Congratulations Chang-Yong and Jason!
Upcoming Events
- Science Advisory Committee - Sep. 28–29
- CFN User Proposal Deadline - Sep. 30
- Special Nano Day Coffee Break: Celebrating National Nanotechnology Day, Indigenous Peoples' Day, and Hispanic Heritage Month – Oct 11
- CFN Retreat – TBD Oct. 16 or 25
- Submit your images for the 14th Annual CFN Image Contest by 10/6. For some inspiration, see last year’s winners below:
Left: First Place (Scientific and Technical): A moment of gold nanoparticle (50 nm) agglomeration in its drying aqueous suspension around an air bubble. CFN instrument used: Nikon Eclipse Ti2 Hyperspectral Dark Field Microscope. - Feiyue Teng, CFN Staff, Brookhaven National Lab
Right: Second Place (Scientific and Technical): This image is not real! It was generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tasked with dreaming about nanomaterials. This image was not generated using CFN equipment. It was generated entirely by computer. - Kevin Yager, CFN Staff, Brookhaven National Lab
Left: First Place (My Life at the CFN):The sky speaks in a thousand colors - Sayantani Sikder, CFN User, Stony Brook University
Right: Second Place (My Life at the CFN): Painting of CFN directors, generated by an AI mimicking the style of Vincent van Gogh - Kevin Yager, CFN Staff, Brookhaven National Lab
Arrivals, Departures, Awards
Arrivals
- Atiya Banerjee – Theory and Computation
Departures
- Mingxing Li (Innovare)
- Sabine Neal (University of Southern Maine)
- Gengnan Li (CNM at Argonne)
BNL Service Awards
- Abdullah Al-Mahboob, 5 years
- Esther Tsai, 5 years
- Qin Wu, 15 years
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