Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Through Interdisciplinary Work, Advanced Imaging Reveals Hidden Thermoelectric Structure

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers linked atomic-scale features to efficient heat-to-electricity conversion, offering ...

Simultaneous packing structures in superionic water may explain ice giant magnetic fields

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Synchronizing ultrashort X-ray pulses for attosecond precision

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have, for the first time, demonstrated a technique that synchronizes ultrashort ...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Neutrons dive deep to help protect US nuclear submarines

The pressure hulls of U.S. Navy nuclear submarines consist of many steel plates joined by precision manual or robotic welding ...
Carnegie Institution for Science

Novel experimental setup for megahertz X-ray diffraction in a diamond anvil cell at the High Energy Density (HED) instrument of the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (EuXFEL)

Liermann, H. P.; Konopkova, Z.; Appel, K.; Prescher, C.; Schropp, A.; Cerantola, V; Husband, R. J.; McHardy, J. D.; McMahon, M., I; McWilliams, R. S.; Pepin, C. M ...
Carnegie Institution for Science

The Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) X-ray Diffractometer on the MSL Curiosity Rover: A Decade of Mineralogy from Gale Crater, Mars

For more than a decade, the CheMin X-ray diffraction instrument on the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, has been returning definitive and quantitative mineralogical and mineral-chemistry data ...
Frontiers

Deep learning for ultrafast X-ray scattering and imaging with intense X-ray FEL pulses

1 Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China 2 School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China The advent of X-ray Free Electron ...
Yale Environment 360

Meet Yale’s maestro of MicroED

For a crystal-clear view of cutting-edge science, step into Brandon Mercado’s lab in the basement of Kline Chemistry Laboratory. But there’s a new kid in town. CBIC’s Structural Science Facility now ...