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Foundry in Focus – August 2026 Newsletter
August 2026
Molecular Foundry Fall 2026 Proposal Call
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Ripple Effects: How Alex Weber-Bargioni Is Fine-Tuning the Future of Quantum Materials
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2026 Molecular Foundry Annual Meeting Recap
August 2026
Ferroelectricity Emerges at the Nanoscale
August 2026
How Twelve Turns Air into Jet Fuel
July 2026
Inaugural Critical Minerals & Materials Joint Research Portfolio Announced
June 2026
Scientists Develop Predictive Roadmap to Boost Performance in Next-Gen Spintronics
June 2026
Combatting Antibiotic Resistance with Nanotechnology, Robotics, and AI
June 2026
Foundry in Focus – May 2026 Newsletter
May 2026
When Solid Electrolytes Flow: ORION and the Future of Thermoformable Sodium Batteries
May 2026
Transforming Waste into Gold and Other Highly Pure Metals
April 2026
Spring 2026 Seminar Series Begins April 21
April 2026
How Liquid-Handling Robots and Bacteriophage Cocktails Could Change Pharmacology Today
April 2026
Foundry’s Peter Ercius and John Turner Recognized by the Microscopy Society of America
March 2026
Tuning Light at the Nanoscale: Strain‑Engineered Nanobubbles Illuminate New Possibilities
March 2026
Thermodynamic Computing Advances with Design and Training
March 2026
New Electron Microscopy Technique Reveals Atomic Structures From Nanocrystals Once Considered Unsolvable
March 2026
Foundry in Focus – February 2026 Newsletter
February 2026
Molecular Foundry Spring 2026 Proposal Call
February 2026
A ‘Robot Pizza Chef’ Serving Up Better Quantum Computers
February 2026
Can we pattern it? Turning high refractive index materials into high-impact devices
February 2026
Shaping Materials, Shaping a Facility: Yi Liu on Growing with the Foundry
February 2026
Turning Nobel-Winning Chemistry into a Successful 3D Printing Company
January 2026
Growing with the Foundry: A Journey from Postdoc to Facility Director
January 2026
From Nano to Nobel: Foundry Researchers Use MOFs to Solve Big Problems
January 2026
Winter 2026 Seminar Series Begins January 13
January 2026
Happy Nano New Year: Download the Foundry’s 2026 NanoArt Calendar!
December 2025
Ancient Asteroid Provides Evidence of Amino Acid Precursors
December 2025
A New Lens on Shape-Shifting Nanocrystals: Deep Learning Meets Electron Microscopy
December 2025
Foundry in Focus – November 2025 Newsletter
November 2025
Harnessing Nature’s Nanofactories: Rapidly Assembling Bacterial Microcompartments
November 2025
Bringing Space Research Down to Earth – One Atom at a Time
November 2025
Finding the Right Peptoids for the Job
November 2025
Foundry’s Emory Chan and Bruce Cohen win Berkeley Lab Director’s Award
November 2025
Quantum Center Renewed by DOE
November 2025
Former Foundry Director Omar Yaghi wins 2025 Chemistry Nobel Prize
October 2025
Announcing the Winners of the 2025 NanoArt Competition
October 2025
Atomic Neighborhoods in Semiconductors Provide New Avenue for Designing Microelectronics
September 2025
Electron Microscopy Reveals New Method to Make Exotic Metal Alloys
September 2025
Optimized Materials in a Flash
September 2025
How Natron Energy Turned Prussian Blue Pigment into Safer, Longer-Lasting Batteries
September 2025
How mimicking nature with chemistry might transform the way we live
September 2025
Separating an Electron into Waves of Spin and Charge
September 2025
Mixing the Unmixable with Aerosol-based Flame Technology
September 2025
Fall 2025 Seminar Series Begins September 16
September 2025
Researchers Engineer Larger, Tougher Crops for Fuel, Bioproducts
September 2025
Foundry in Focus – August 2025 Newsletter
August 2025
Foundry’s Brett Helms wins National ACS Award
August 2025
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Recent Science Highlights
TEM Agent: Using Large Language Models for Electron Microscopy
July 2026
Electrode-Omics Uncovers Evolutionary Chemistry Behind Crack-Resistant Silicon Battery Anodes
June 2026
Non-Equilibrium Flame Aerosol Synthesis for Scalable High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles
May 2026
A Data-Driven Approach to Unravel the Synthesis Knobs of Chiral 2D Perovskites
March 2026
Ferroelectricity in atomic-scale titanium dioxide dielectric films
March 2026
Nonequilibrium thermodynamic computing for ultra low-energy AI
January 2026
Ultraselective sequestration of Li+ and Mg2+ from brines via a reusable polyoxoniobate-based ion sponge
December 2025
Probing and Tuning Strain-Localized Exciton Emission in 2D Material Bubbles at Room Temperature
October 2025
Identification of short-range ordering motifs in semiconductors
September 2025
Accelerating Experiment Design Through AI-Driven Robot
July 2025
Multimetallic Systems Convey Cost-Effective Hydrogen Storage
June 2025
Imaging the Progression of Radiolytic Damage in Molecular Crystals
April 2025
Unlocking topochemical polymerization in single crystals, polycrystals, and solution aggregates
April 2025
Rapid In Vitro Assembly and Loading of Bacterial Microcompartment Shells
March 2025
Intrinsic optical bistability of photon avalanching nanocrystals
February 2025
Size-Resolved Shape Evolution in Inorganic Nanocrystals Captured via High-Throughput Deep Learning
November 2024
Short-Wave Infrared Upconverting Nanoparticles
November 2024
Probing plexciton emission from 2D materials on gold nanotrenches
November 2024
A general flame aerosol route to high-entropy nanoceramics
October 2024
Mechanochemical Encapsulation of Palladium in Covalent Organic Frameworks
October 2024
Very Fast Electron Detector Connected to High Performance Computing
September 2024
Omics-enabled understanding of electric aircraft battery electrolytes
August 2024
Atomic Dynamics of Electrified Solid-Liquid Interfaces in Liquid Cell TEM
June 2024
Repairable and Reconfigurable Structured Liquid Circuits
June 2024
Oxygen Transport through Amorphous Cathode Coatings in Solid-State Batteries
June 2024
Multicolor Inks of Black Phosphorus for Midwave-Infrared Optoelectronics
May 2024
Self-Assembled multilaminate films with excellent energy storage capability
April 2024
Kink bands promote exceptional fracture resistance in a NbTaTiHf refractory medium-entropy alloy
April 2024
Nanopatterned Polypeptoid Brushes for Semiconductor/Bio Interfaces
April 2024
Removing the ‘Black Box’ from Next-Generation Solar Cells
April 2024
Imaging and Manipulating Chiral Interface States in a 2D Chern Insulator
March 2024
Transient Structuring of Liquids Using Dissipative Interfacial Assemblies
March 2024
Self-Propulsion by Directed Explosive Emulsification
February 2024
Accelerating the Design of Multishell Upconverting Nanoparticles
January 2024
Solving complex nanostructures with ptychographic atomic electron tomography
January 2024
Rationalizing Material Crystallization
December 2023
Functional Composites by Programming Entropy-driven Nanosheet Growth
November 2023
Analysis of strain and defects in Te-WSe2 moiré heterostructures using scanning nanodiffraction
November 2023
Printable, Emissivity-adaptive and Albedo-optimized Covering (PEAC)
November 2023
Ballistic Ejection of Microdroplets from Overpacked Interfacial Assemblies
October 2023
Closed-loop cathode recycling in solid-state batteries enabled by supramolecular electrolytes
September 2023
Imaging the electron charge density in monolayer MoS2 at the Ångstrom scale
July 2023
Machine Learning Harnessed to Make Complex Systems More Energy Efficient
July 2023
Photoswitchable Nanoparticles Offer Advances in Optical Probes, 3D Memory, and Super-Resolution Microscopy
July 2023
Structure, folding and flexibility of co-transcriptional RNA origami
April 2023
Understanding solar thermochemical hydrogen production in a water-splitting oxide
April 2023
Hyperspectral imaging of exciton confinement within a moiré unit cell with a subnanometer electron probe
January 2023
Ultrafast charge and energy transport across two-dimensional atomic junctions
January 2023
Near-Monochromatic Tuneable Cryogenic Niobium Electron Field Emitter
December 2022
Determination of peak ordering in the CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy via nanoindentation
December 2022
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Foundry Seminars
Rampi Ramprasad, Georgia Institute of Technology
Fuzhong Zhang, WashU
Synthetic Biology for High-Performance Protein-based Materials
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
11:00 AM PT
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
11:00 AM PT
William Borders, NIST
CMOS-Integrated Novel Device Technologies for Next-Gen Computing
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
11:00 AM PT
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
11:00 AM PT
Jie Xu, ANL/U. Chicago
A Joint ALS/Foundry Seminar
Building an Autonomous Lab for Polymer Innovation
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
11:00 AM PT
Building an Autonomous Lab for Polymer Innovation
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
11:00 AM PT
Tito Busani, UNM
Multifunctional Lithography Systems: Bridging Fabrication, Materials, and Multi-Physics Integration
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
11:00 AM PT
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
11:00 AM PT
Shannon Boettcher, UC Berkeley
Building the Ultimate Water Electrolyzer?
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
11:00 AM PT
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
11:00 AM PT
Sanjay Behura, SDSU
Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Quantum Information Science
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
11:00 AM PT
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
11:00 AM PT
Steffi Woo, ORNL
Nanoscale Excitonic Response in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors with Electron Spectromicroscopy
Monday, May 11, 2026
1:00 PM PT
Monday, May 11, 2026
1:00 PM PT
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Foundry Events
Molecular Foundry Fall 2026 Proposal Call
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Molecular Foundry Spring 2026 Proposal Call
Celebrating 20 Years of Discovery
Molecular Foundry Fall 2025 Proposal Call
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Molecular Foundry Spring 2025 Proposal Call
2025 Information Session: Writing Molecular Foundry User Proposals
Molecular Foundry Fall 2024 Proposal Call
Join us at the 2024 Annual User Meeting
Molecular Foundry Spring 2024 Proposal Call
2024 Information Session: Writing Molecular Foundry User Proposals
Molecular Foundry Fall 2023 Proposal Call
Molecular Foundry Spring 2023 Proposal Call
2023 Information Session: Writing Molecular Foundry User Proposals
Molecular Foundry Fall 2022 Proposal Call
Join us at the 2022 Annual User Meeting
2022 Information Session: Writing Molecular Foundry User Proposals
Molecular Foundry Spring 2022 Proposal Call
Molecular Foundry Fall 2021 Proposal Call
Join us at the 2021 Virtual Annual User Meeting
Molecular Foundry Spring 2021 Proposal Call
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The 2020 Molecular Foundry User Meeting is going virtual!
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Foundry in Focus is a quarterly electronic newsletter produced to keep users and other interested parties informed about developments at the Molecular Foundry, a national user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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