NSLS-II Science Highlights
2023
2022
How Do Algae Survive Under Low Light Conditions?
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Cation Treatment Impacts Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Using Enzymes to Selectively Form C-C Bonds
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Predicting the Durability and Activity for Pt Catalysts
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
First Long-Lived Perovskite Solar Cells Developed
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Resonant X-ray Diffraction Reveals Backbone Tilt in Polymers
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Better Together: New 2D Multilayer Laue Lens Overcomes Alignment Challenge
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Added Robust Interphase Stabilizes Promising Cathode Material
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Seeing Inside Next-Generation Microelectronics Using X-rays
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Pathway to a New Brønsted Acid Catalyst
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Understanding Borophene—a Multipurpose Material
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Oral & Gut Microbes Can Inactivate an Antidiabetic Drug
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Tuning Electrochemical & Electronic Properties
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Steering the Conversion of CO2 and Ethane
Thursday, March 31, 2022
2021
Combining X-rays & Neutrons to Study Molten Salts
Friday, December 31, 2021
New Insights into Kagome Superconductors
Friday, December 31, 2021
Lowering the Survival Chance of Bacteria
Friday, December 31, 2021
Turning to Trees for Improving Battery Performance
Friday, December 31, 2021
New Electrolyte Could Push Li-ion Battery Performance
Thursday, September 30, 2021
New Halide Electrolytes for Solid State Batteries
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Recreating a Step in the Evolution of Viruses
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Building Bridges for Reinforcing Polymers
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Materials Discovery Through AI-powered Consensus
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Fighting Cancer with a New Antibody
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Elevating X-Ray Optics to the Next Level
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Stable Cathode Design for Next-Gen EV Batteries
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Flat Band Structure Observed in Topological Material
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Quantifying Myelin and Axon Orientations in the Brain
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
New Way of Revealing Molecular Packing
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Understanding Nuclear "Lava" From Accident Scenarios
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Tuning Spin Excitations in Magnetic Films by Confinement
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Chemists Prove the Existence of LiH in Battery
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Watch and Learn How Nanostructured Thin Films Grow
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Understanding Critical Failure in Li-S Pouch Cells
Sunday, January 31, 2021
3D Nanomaterials Assembly via Material Voxels
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Simultaneous Ignition of CO Catalytic Oxidation
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Dual-Ion Transport in a Promising Aqueous Battery
Sunday, January 31, 2021
New Approach for Ammonia Production
Sunday, January 31, 2021
2020
Fine Tuning Drugs to Fight Cancer
Monday, November 30, 2020
Chemical Imaging with Unprecedented Nanoscale Resolution
Monday, November 30, 2020
Small Agents to Direct Improved MOF Structures
Monday, November 30, 2020
Unraveling 3D Printing Dynamics
Monday, November 30, 2020
Increasing the Efficiency of CO Catalytic Conversion
Friday, November 13, 2020
Superconductors and Charge Density Waves
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
A New Approach to Engineering Thin Films
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Understanding an Essential Chaperone Complex
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Scientists Resolve Origin of Perovskite Instability
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Targeting a Critical Molecular Switch in COVID-19
Friday, July 31, 2020
Revealing a Reaction Mechanism in an Electrode Material
Friday, July 31, 2020
Fighting Cancer with DNA Origami
Friday, July 31, 2020
On a Quest to Tailor the Reactivity of Oxide Catalysts
Friday, July 31, 2020
Revealing the Basis for Metacaspase Activation
Friday, July 31, 2020
Pandemic Influenza is Dynamic
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Fast Cooldown for Making Battery Materials
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Improving a Natural Gas Conversion Catalyst
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Optimizing the NSLS-II Beam Parameters
Sunday, May 31, 2020
3D Nanoscale Imaging of Proteins in Cells
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Molten Salt Treatment for Battery Cathode
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Two Catalysts Are Better Than One
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Growing a Stable, Rechargeable Zinc Anode
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Inhibitor or Activator: Why not Both?
Friday, January 31, 2020
Understanding How to Tune Nanocrystal Architecture
Friday, January 31, 2020
Infrared Invisibility: Controlling Thermal Radiation
Friday, January 31, 2020
Turning Up the Heat to Create New Nanostructured Metals
Friday, January 31, 2020
2019
More than Just Support: MOFs as Intrinsic Catalysts
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Bringing to Light: Dynamics in Phototransistors
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Nanocages Trap and Selectively Release Elusive Noble Gases
Saturday, November 30, 2019
A Structural Understanding of Spore Germination
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Electrocatalyst Turns Greenhouse Gas into Pure Liquid Fuel
Monday, September 30, 2019
Smarter Experiments for Faster Materials Discovery
Monday, September 30, 2019
More Thermopower Than Expected
Monday, September 30, 2019
Special Delivery: Nutrients to Plants
Monday, September 30, 2019
Light Teaches (Co)Enzymes New Tricks
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Creating 'Speckle Pattern' Movies of Thin Film Growth
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Optimizing the Growth of Coatings on Nanowire Catalysts
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Next Cathode Material: Newly Designed and Freshly Grown
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Understanding the Growth of Ruddlesden-Popper Oxides
Friday, May 31, 2019
Charge Density Wave Memory in a Cuprate Superconductor
Friday, May 31, 2019
Key Drug Target Shown Assembling in Real Time
Friday, May 31, 2019
Copper Nanosheets as Improved Electrochemical Catalysts
Friday, May 31, 2019
Organic Cathode for High Performance Lithium Batteries
Friday, May 31, 2019
Illuminating Desalination Membranes
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Unlocking the Secrets of Metal-Insulator Transitions
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Cause of Cathode Degradation Found for Nickel-rich Materials
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Searching for New Ways to Fight Bacterial Resistance
Sunday, March 31, 2019
A Nanomaterial's Journey Through a Tomato Plant
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Kinase Activation Mechanism Could Help Cancer Research
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Robust Fuel Cell Runs on Nearly Dry Methane
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Reflecting Antiferromagnetic Arrangements
Thursday, January 31, 2019
2018
3.7-billion-year-old Structures Formed by Tectonics, not Life
Friday, November 30, 2018
Revealing the Growth Behavior of New Nanoparticle Catalysts
Friday, November 30, 2018
Addressing Beam Instability That Can Degrade Brightness
Friday, November 30, 2018
Single Atoms Break Carbon's Strongest Bond
Friday, November 30, 2018
One-Minute Nanotomography
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Potential New Ion Conductor Based on Quantum Materials
Sunday, September 30, 2018
First X-ray Nanofluorescence Tomography of Single Bacteria
Sunday, September 30, 2018
New Insights into the Synthesis Process of Layered Oxides
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Fundamental Order of Transitions Revealed in Micelles
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Structure of a Nuclear Pore Complex's "Ticket System"
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Catalytic Transformation of Carbon Feedstocks to Liquid Fuels
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
3D Protein Structure Helps in the Search for a Vaccine
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Using Plants to Immobilize and Stabilize Arsenic in the Soil
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Ultra-high Spatial Resolution Meets Multimodal Imaging
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Mesoporous Co/CeO2 Catalysts for Hydrogen Production
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Scientists Reveal Novel Architecture of a Membrane Protein
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Atomic Flaws Create Surprising, High-Efficiency UV LED Materials
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Scientists Discover New Electrocatalyst to Convert CO2 to CO
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Scientists Track the Early Stage Growth of Metal Organic Frameworks
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Engineering the Self-Assembly Pathway
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
3D Nanoscale Imaging of Defects in a Nanowire
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Multimodal Research Provides Insight into Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Understanding Recycling in Cells
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
2017
Doubled-Up X-ray Lenses Expand the Use of High-resolution Imaging
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Accelerating a Key Reaction in Fuel Cells and Batteries
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
A Nanostructured Iron-Alloy Coating Beefs Up Nuclear Steel
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Uncovering Why Copper Improves a Battery's Cathode and Overall Performance
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
