Berkeley Lab-pioneered ‘MIDI-STEM’ produces high-resolution views of lightweight atoms.

The new material is made up of silicon, boron and nitrogen—all light, inexpensive and earth abundant elements

“We’re taking what normally you’d think is really expensive to do and using stuff you can buy at Wal-Mart to build a sensor.”

Using a technique called supercritical anti-solvent precipitation, the group produced large quantities of highly pure georgeite

The proof of concept wing will eventually enable flight over much longer distances than currently possible

In cell cultures, the new compounds, known as cathuitamycins, are able to stop the Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria from forming a biofilm

Experiment with Berkeley Lab-developed material shows promise for quantum information processing

Utah engineers discover groundbreaking semiconducting material that could lead to much faster electronics

“One long-term goal is to potentially replace sutures and screws owing to the trauma caused from punching holes into healthy tissue."

Material can lift 1000 times its mass

Process could enable biomanufacturing of 1 billion pounds of spandex each year

Researchers' findings demonstrate that renewable pollens could produce carbon architectures for anode applications in energy storage devices