Science highlights

 User Science highlights (*)

22. An Organic Transistor That Can Sense, Process, and Remember, ALS Science Brief on work "S. Wang, X. Chen, C. Zhao, Y. Kong, B. Lin, Y. Wu, Z. Bi, Z. Xuan, T. Li, Y. Li, W. Zhang, E. Ma, Z. Wang, and W. Ma, “An organic electrochemical transistor for multi-modal sensing, memory and processing,” Nat. Electron. 6, 281 (2023), doi:10.1038/s41928-023-00950-y.", August of 2023.

21.  Electric Vehicle Batteries Could Get Big Boost With New Polymer Coating, Berkeley Lab News 2023 on work by Tianyu Zhu, Gao Liu*, et al. Nat. Energy, 8, 129 (2023). 

20.  Keeping Water-Treatment Membranes from Fouling Out, ALS Science Brief, on work ""M.R. Landsman, S. Rongpipi, G. Freychet, E. Gann, C. Jaye, D.F. Lawler, L.E. Katz, and G.M. Su, “Linking water quality, fouling layer composition, and performance of reverse osmosis membranes,” J. Membr. Sci. 680, 121717 (2023), doi:10.1016/j.memsci.2023.121717."

19.  "LAAAMP-Funded Team Makes a Journey of Miles and Nanometers", ALS News on LAAAMP fellows' visit (Miller Shatsala and Celline Awino Omondi), December of 2023. 

18. "Distinguishing Nanoparticles From Gas-Phase Species in Reaction Flows", ALS Science Brief on work by H.A. Michelsen, M.F. Campbell, I.C. Tran, K.O. Johansson, P.E. Schrader, R.P. Bambha, J.A. Hammons, E. Schaible, C. Zhu, and A. van Buuren, JPCA 126, 3015 (2022). doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.2c00454.

17. Azzuliani Supangat, 2022 LAAAMP Fellow

16. "A properly tailored tail boosts solar-cell efficiency" J. Xue, R. Wang, et al. M. C. Beard, Y. Yan, Y. Yang, "Reconfiguring the band-edge states of photovoltaic perovskites by conjugated organic cations" Science. (2021)

15. "Probing composite materials to make better batteries", M.D. Galluzzo, W.S. Loo, E. Schaible, C. Zhu, and N.P. Balsara, "Dynamic Structure and Phase Behavior of a Block Copolymer Electrolyte under dc Polarization," ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, in press (2020).

14. "Stacking the deck for custom-built hybrid materials",H. Balch, R. Dasari, H. Li, R. Li, S. Thomas, D. Wang, R. Bisbey, K. Slicker, I. Castano, S. Xun, L. Jiang, C. Zhu, N. Gianneschi, D. Ralph, J.-L. Bredas, S. Marder, and W. Dichtel, "Electronically Coupled 2D Polymer/MoS2 Heterostructures," JACS 142, 21131 (2020).

13."Long Chains Stablize Higher-Efficiency Solar Cells", X. Zheng, et al. Nature Energy, 5, 131 (2020). 

12."Collective topo-epitaxy in the self-assembly of a 3D quantum dot superlattice", A. Abelson, C. Qian, T. Salk, Z. Luan, K. Fu, J.G.Zheng, J. L. Wardini, M. Law, Nat. Mater.  (2019) 

11. "Multi-level chirality in liquid crystals formed by achiral molecules", M. Salamonczyk, et al. Nat. Comm. 10. 1922 (2019, E. Gorecka group).

10. "Self-assembly of two dimensional perovskite nanosheet building blocks into ordered ruddlesden-popper perovskite phasee", Y. Liu et al. JACS, 2019 (Peidong Yang Group).

9. "Linking Structure to Behavior in Twisted Liquid Crystals",  ALS Science Highlight of a paper by M. Tuchband, N. Clark et al. PNAS 2019. 

8. "Backbone-free duplex-stacked monomer nucleic acids exhibiting Watson-Crick selectivity" by G.P. Smith, Noel Clark*, et al was awarded the Cozzarelli Prize by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which recognize recently published PNAS papers of outstanding scientific quality and originality. 

7. Researchers Use Jiggly Jell-O to Make Powerful New Hydrogen Fuel Catalyst . (2018.12)

6. Rational Optimization of Organic Solar-Cell Materials

5. Porous-Framework Electrocatalysts Are Key to Carbon Dioxide Conversion

4. Weaving of organic threads into a crystalline covalent organic framework

3. The Smectic Phase of DNA “Nano-Nunchaku”

2. Superlattices Patterned by Polymers

1. In Situ X-Ray Scattering Helps Optimize Printed Solar Cells

Staff Science Highlights

13. "Modulating helical nanostructures in liquid crystal phase by molecular design", EurekAlert, Y. Arakawa, et al. Materials Advances, 2020. 

12. Review "Deciphering Chiral Structures in Soft Materials via Resonant Soft and Tender X-ray Scattering", Y. Cao, et al. GIANT, (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giant.2020.100018. 

11. "Molecular packing in double gyroid cubic phases revealed via resonant soft x-ray scattering", Y. Cao, et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027801 (2020).

10. "Manipulation of the Nanoscale Heliconical Structure of a Twist-bend Nematic Material with Polarized UV Light", C. Feng,  et al. Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 032004(R), (2020).

9.  2019 Luckhurst-Samulski Prize has been awarded to the following paper led by Prof. Corrie T. Imrie.  

Cruickshank E, Salamonczyk M, Pociecha D, Strachan GJ, Storey JMD, Wang C, Feng J, Zhu CH, Gorecka E, Imrie CT.  Sulfur-linked cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase. Liquid Crystals. 2019;46:1595-609.

8. "Structure of Nanoscale-pitch Helical Phases: blue phase and twist bend nematic", M. Salamonczyk, et al. Soft Matt. 13, 6649, 2017 (Cover)

7. "Resonant Carbon K-edge Soft X-ray Scattering from Lattice-free Heliconical Molecular Ordering: the Twist Bend Liquid Crystal Phase", C. Zhu, et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147803 (2016)

6. "Probing and Controlling Liquid Crystal Helical Nanofilaments", C. Zhu, et al. Nano Lett. 15, 5, 3420 (2015)

5. Campus researchers make 1st direct measurement of liquid crystal forming helices . (Daily Californian)

4. What Screens are Made of: New Twists (and Bends) in LCD Research (Berkeley Lab News); Science Daily; Azo Materials;  News wise; 

3. Watching a Liquid-Crystal Helix Unwind (ALS Science Highlights)

2. Twisted Structures Emerge from Achiral Molecules (ALS Science Brief)

1. Revealing the Blue Phase and Other Twisted Orders (ALS Science Brief)

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