Berkeley Lab study is first to show potential of energy-efficient next-gen electronic memory The same electrostatic charge that can make hair stand on end and attach balloons to cl... Read more
A new two-dimensional film, made of polymers and nanoparticles and developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), can... Read more
Berkeley Lab advance is first demonstration of efficient, light-powered production of fuel via artificial photosynthesis Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley... Read more
New Materials Could Turn Water into the Fuel of the Future Researchers at Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have—in just two years—nearly doubled the... Read more
Berkeley Lab-led research breaks major barrier in transistor size by creating gate only 1 nanometer long For more than a decade, engineers have been eyeing the finish line in the r... Read more
New Modeling/Data Analysis/Visualization Toolkit Speeds Simulations, Design Particle accelerators are on the verge of transformational breakthroughs—and advances in computing power... Read more
Nanoscale images by Berkeley Lab researchers yield surprise that could push efficiency to 31 percent Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laborator... Read more
Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have taken a big step toward the practical application of “valleytronics,” whic... Read more
Low-cost coating would disrupt the building retrofit market and potentially save billions in electricity It’s estimated that 10 percent of all the energy used in buildings in the U... Read more
Coupling 2 ‘Tabletop’ Laser-Plasma Accelerators, a Decisive First Step Toward Tomorrow’s Ultrapowerful Compact Machines Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) got the nickname “tabletop”... Read more
Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop Nature-Mimicking Freeze-casting Technique for Fabricating Advanced Porous Materials It has often been said that nature is history’s greatest innova... Read more
Lab’s Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies (LIGTT) produces first-of-its-kind blueprint for sustainable global development Since the polio vaccine was introduced in t... Read more
The days of self-assembling nanoparticles taking hours to form a film over a microscopic-sized wafer are over. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berke... Read more
A team of Berkeley Lab battery researchers led by Elton Cairns has invented an advanced lithium/sulfur (Li/S) cell that, for the first time, offers both long cycle life and a high... Read more
