Copper catalysts play an unexpected oxidizing role during unassisted photocatalysis when coupled with plasmonic light absorbers.
Ultrafast electron scattering measurements reveal dynamic reconfiguration of polarization in relaxor ferroelectrics by light.
Researchers open a new avenue for future brain-inspired computer hardware.
Robotic stacking of 2D layers provides the atomically clean interfaces critical for high performance assembled materials.
Researchers leveraged advanced X-ray imaging for a nondestructive way to peer inside complex 3D nanomaterials with record resolution.
By examining tiny fragments from one of our nearest cosmic neighbors, scientists uncovered more about the history of our solar system.
Nuclear theorists reveal mass distribution within the pion and the proton from first principle numerical calculations.
Scientists find evidence of superfluidity in low-density neutron matter by using highly flexible neural-network representations of quantum wave functions.
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams enables a high-precision mass measurement at the edge of the nuclear chart.
Study finds that neutral beam performance can be experimentally deduced from electron temperature evolution during neutral beam injection.
The first measurement of ion temperature in magnetic islands identified a steep gradient, providing insights for improving plasma confinement in tokamaks.
![A gas-phase X-Ray scattering experiment captures cyclopentadiene rapidly transforming into the strained bicyclo[2.1.0]pentene. This structure change is triggered by a pump pulse (blue) and detected through X-ray scattering (yellow).](/-/media/bes/csgb/images/highlights-of-progress/2024/lcls_cover_jpcl_final_full.jpg?h=444&w=1000&la=en&hash=07296099B8FD08CA6BECE0CCDF495E4D59198617B88395AF5B2F168D342FB0F4)
Ultrafast X-ray experiments provide direct evidence that interaction of light with a hydrocarbon molecule produces strained molecular rings.
