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After 40 years at UC Berkeley, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Alivisatos will be returning to his alma mater, the University of Chicago, or UChicago, as its next president. Alivisatos, who also serves as the Samsung Distinguished Professor in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research in the campus department of chemistry, will enter his role at UChicago on Sept. 1. He was elected president by the board after “an extensive international search” and a unanimous recommendation from t...

In a new report, Berkeley Lab describes recent legislative revisions, key policy design features, compliance with interim targets, past and projected impacts on renewables development, and compliance costs.From

Loading video... VIDEO: Imaging of the same spot shows that cracks eventually self-heal, an important trademark that maintains the integrity of structured liquids. Real-time video of 70 nm nanoparticles (red) and 500 nanometer... view more  Credit: Paul Ashby and Tom Russell/Berkeley Lab and Science Advances Liquid structures - liquid droplets that maintain a specific shape - are useful for a variety of applications, from food processing to cosmetics, medicine, and even petroleum extract...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a new way to harness properties of light waves that can radically increase the amount of data they carry. The new work throws wide open the amount of information that can be multiplexed, or simultaneously transmitted, by a coherent light source.

 E-Mail IMAGE: Michael Grätzel, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences. view more  Credit: BBVA FOUNDATION The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Paul Alivisatos (University of California, Berkeley, United States) and Michael Grätzel (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) for their fundamental contributions to the development of new nanomaterials a...

Can solid state batteries power up for the next generation of EVs? Lithium-ion batteries power almost every new phone, laptop and electric vehicle. But unlike processors or solar panels, which have improved exponentially, lithium-ion batteries have inched along with only incremental gains. For the last decade, developers of solid state battery systems have promised products that are vastly safer, lighter and more powerful. Those promises largely evaporated into the ether — leaving behind a va...

Berkeley Lab is pursuing a portfolio of negative emissions technologies and related research to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (Credit: Gary...

USDA ARS ARS geneticist Sarah Hake and University of California, Berkeley colleague George Chuck study juvenile traits of corngrass. They have found that inserting a specific corngrass gene into switchgrass keeps it in its juvenile form. Scientists from WSU, UC, Arizona involved in ongoing effort to improve the emerging bioenergy crop switchgrass. Feb 22, 2021 Researchers from Washington State University, the University of California and the Arizona Genomics Institute ...

Sulfur battery breakthrough could be the future of electric planes, trains, and automobiles, scientists say Adam Smith © Provided by The Independent Lithium-ion batteries, the ones inside most smartphones and electric cars, could be replaced with a whole new chemical composition that would make them work even more efficiently. The battery standard is used in a variety of devices – including laptops, smartwatches and e-cigarettes – but the batteries simply cannot keep up wi...

A Sponge to Soak Up Carbon Dioxide in the Air A Q&A with Berkeley Lab scientist Jeffrey Long on a material for capturing CO2 February 22, 2021 405 Shares Berkeley Lab is pursuing a portfolio of negative emissions technologies and related research to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (Credit: Gary Whitton/Shutterstock) Human activity is now leading to the equivalent of 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere each year, putting us on track to increase the planet’s...