January 2023

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  Happy New Year

  NSLS-II Director John Hill shares news on the upcoming cycle, exciting plans for future beamlines, and invites everyone to the annual user meeting.
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  Building Particle Accelerators Takes More Than a Village

  From magnets to power supplies, NSLS-II experts support accelerator upgrades across the Nation
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  Revealing the Thermal Heat Dance of Magnetic Domains

  Scientists invented a new way of tracking electronic properties inside materials, and used it to visualize magnetic domains in a previously unseen way.
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  X-rays Reveal Elusive Chemistry for Better EV Batteries

  Scientists unraveled the complex chemical mechanisms of a battery component that is crucial for boosting energy density: the interphase.
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  Novel Chemical Reaction Supports Carbon-Neutral Industrial Processes

  The reaction yields useful products from waste methane and carbon dioxide, both greenhouse gases, and may open up a path to transforming sustainable carbon chemistry.

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Watching catalysts at work • Imaging the nanoscale • Capturing natural complexity

National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) shines ultra-bright light into the unknown using an array of advanced scientific instrumentation at beamlines with x-ray, ultraviolet, and infrared light. It is one of the newest and most advanced synchrotron facilities in the world. It enables the study of material properties and functions with nanoscale resolution and exquisite sensitivity. It provides research tools needed to foster new discoveries and create breakthroughs in critical areas of science, such as energy security, environment, and human health. And its journey is just beginning.

NSLS-II is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-SC0012704.

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