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 E-Mail IMAGE: UC Berkeley chemists synthesized flexible polymer membranes, like those currently used in membrane separation processes, but embedded with nanoparticles that can be tuned to absorb specific metal ions - gold... view more  Credit: Adam Uliana/UC Berkeley Improved Desalination Process Also Removes Toxic Metals to Produce Clean Water -Adapted from UC Berkeley news release by Bob Sanders Desalination - the removal of salt - is only one step in the process of producing drink...

Going Beyond Qubits: New Study Demonstrates Key Components for a Qutrit-Based Quantum Computer A team led by physicists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley has successfully observed the scrambling of quantum information, which is thought to underlie the behavior of black holes, using qutrits: information-storing quantum units that can represent three separate states at the same time. Their efforts also pave the way for building a quantum information processor...

Berkeley Lab researchers develop technology to refine compostable plastic Adam Lau/Courtesy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst scientists developed technology that, through a process of refining compostable plastic, can potentially reduce microplastic pollution. Technology developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst scientists and engineers can possibly reduce micropla...

1854 Euclid Ave. (near Hearst Avenue), Berkeley There is something hypnotizing about watching Rebecca or Dj Dahmani create your crepe at La Crepe a Moi. A quick ladle of brown-flecked batter meets the hot griddle, a fluid swirl of the wrist with a little wooden spreader produces a perfectly smooth circle. Suddenly, you are hit by the enticing aromas of sizzling butter and nutty buckwheat. A long spatula allows a deft flip of the crepe exposing its toasty side, then a shower of cheese, perhaps a...

Nature Energy. Better wind turbine technology fuel lower costs For their study, the researchers surveyed 140 wind energy experts worldwide on three wind applications – land-based, fixed-bottom offshore and floating offshore wind – to identify and compare potential changes in the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of a standard wind power project. The survey was similar to what Berkeley Lab conducted in 2015. The LCOE refers to the cost of building and operating an energy asset over a l...

NationofChange Scientists develop truly biodegradable plastics While biodegradable plastics have been touted as a solution to plastic pollution, in practice they dont work as advertised. A research team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC), Berkeley has found a way to make biodegradable plastics actually disappear. While biodegradable plastics have been touted as a solution to plastic pollu...

Apr 23, 2021 This one in honor of Earth Day! Most biodegradable plastics take months to break down and form microplastics when they do that can end up in oceans and animal bodies. Scientists at the Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have invented an enzyme-activated compostable plastic that could diminish microplastics from polluting the earth and shows great promise for plastic upcycling. “In the wild, enzymes are what nature uses to break things down—and even when we die, enzymes cause our bodi...

Apr 23, 2021 This one in honor of Earth Day! Most biodegradable plastics take months to break down and form microplastics when they do that can end up in oceans and animal bodies. Scientists at the Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have invented an enzyme-activated compostable plastic that could diminish microplastics from polluting the earth and shows great promise for plastic upcycling. “In the wild, enzymes are what nature uses to break things down—and even when we die, enzymes cause our bodi...

Apr 23, 2021 This one in honor of Earth Day! Most biodegradable plastics take months to break down and form microplastics when they do that can end up in oceans and animal bodies. Scientists at the Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have invented an enzyme-activated compostable plastic that could diminish microplastics from polluting the earth and shows great promise for plastic upcycling. “In the wild, enzymes are what nature uses to break things down—and even when we die, enzymes cause our bodi...

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