Berkeley Lab Scientists Prominently Featured Talks at American Chemical...
Berkeley Lab scientists delivered more than 100 presentations at the American Chemical Society's Spring 2009 national meeting in Salt Lake City which took place March 22-29, 2009
View ArticleSomorjai Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Berkeley Lab’s Gabor Somorjai, widely considered the “father of modern surface chemistry,” has won a Frontiers of Knowledge Award from Spain’s BBVA Foundation. He was recognized for “his pioneering...
View ArticleBerkeley Lab Researchers Report Tandem Catalysis in Nanocrystal Interfaces:...
In a development that holds intriguing possibilities for green energy technologies such as artificial photosynthesis, Berkeley Lab researchers have created the first bilayered metal-metal oxide...
View ArticleHydrogen from Acidic Water:
A technique from Berkeley Lab for creating a new molecule that structurally and chemically replicates the active part of the molybdenite catalyst paves the way for developing catalytic materials that...
View ArticleThe Best of Both Catalytic Worlds
Berkeley Lab researchers have combined the best properties of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysts by encapsulating metallic nanoclusters within the branched molecular arms of dendrimers. The...
View ArticleGood Cats Wear Black: Black Nanoparticles Could Play Key Role in Clean Energy...
Disorder engineering turns low-efficiency photocatalytic “white” nanoparticles of titanium dioxide into high-efficiency “black” nanoparticles and could be a key to hydrogen energy.
View ArticleTracking Catalytic Reactions in Microreactors
Berkeley Lab researchers have demonstrated a technique that for the first time allows the catalytic reactivity inside a microreactor to be mapped in high resolution from start-to-finish. This technique...
View ArticleBig Step for Next-Generation Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers
Researchers at Berkeley and Argonne National Labs have discovered a highly promising new class of nanocatalysts for fuel cells and water-alkali electrolyzers that are an order of magnitude higher in...
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Edgy Look at 2D Molybdenum Disulfide
A new SHG imaging technique allows rapid and all-optical determination of the crystal orientations of 2D semiconductor membranes at a large scale, providing the knowledge needed to use these materials...
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Evolution of a Bimetallic Nanocatalyst
TEM image of platinum/cobalt bimetallic nanoparticle catalyst in action shows that during the oxidation reaction, cobalt atoms migrate to the surface of the particle, forming a cobalt oxide epitaxial...
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On the Road to Artificial Photosynthesis
This TEM shows gold–copper bimetallic nanoparticles used as catalysts for the reduction of carbon dioxide, a key reaction for artificial photosynthesis. The excessive atmospheric carbon dioxide that is...
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A Most Singular Nano-Imaging Technique
SINGLE uses in situ TEM imaging of platinum nanocrystals freely rotating in a graphene liquid cell to determine the 3D structures of individual colloidal nanoparticles. Just as proteins are one of the...
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