Theorists propose a new approach to electroluminescent cooling that works like inverted solar photovoltaic cells.
Ultrafast electron diffraction imaging reveals atomic rearrangements long suspected to be crucial in the photochemistry of bromoform.
Excess oxygen on the surface of the metal oxide catalyst copper oxide promotes hydrogen oxidation but suppresses carbon monoxide oxidation.
Particle lifetime measurements with early data from the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB accelerator demonstrate the experiment’s high precision.
Ultrafast electron imaging captures never-before-seen nuclear motions in hydrocarbon molecules excited by light.
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.
![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.
