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Growing with the Foundry: A Journey from Postdoc to Facility Director
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Ancient Asteroid Provides Evidence of Amino Acid Precursors
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A New Lens on Shape-Shifting Nanocrystals: Deep Learning Meets Electron Microscopy
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Harnessing Nature’s Nanofactories: Rapidly Assembling Bacterial Microcompartments
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Finding the Right Peptoids for the Job
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Foundry’s Emory Chan and Bruce Cohen win Berkeley Lab Director’s Award
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Former Foundry Director Omar Yaghi wins 2025 Chemistry Nobel Prize
October 2025
Announcing the Winners of the 2025 NanoArt Competition
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Atomic Neighborhoods in Semiconductors Provide New Avenue for Designing Microelectronics
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Electron Microscopy Reveals New Method to Make Exotic Metal Alloys
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Optimized Materials in a Flash
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How Natron Energy Turned Prussian Blue Pigment into Safer, Longer-Lasting Batteries
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How mimicking nature with chemistry might transform the way we live
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Separating an Electron into Waves of Spin and Charge
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Fall 2025 Seminar Series Begins September 16
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Researchers Engineer Larger, Tougher Crops for Fuel, Bioproducts
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Foundry in Focus – August 2025 Newsletter
August 2025
Foundry’s Brett Helms wins National ACS Award
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Molecular Foundry Fall 2025 Proposal Call
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Foundry’s 2025 Annual User Meeting Showcases Quantum Computing, Critical Elements, AI-Driven Materials Science, and More
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Slowing Down to Speed Up: Unveiling the Secrets of Topochemical Polymerization
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Six Scientific Advances Made Possible by the Molecular Foundry
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An Interview with Ashfia Huq on the Molecular Foundry
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New Process Uses Microbes to Create Valuable Materials from Urine
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Foundry Scientist Selected to Attend Lindau Meetings
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Catalysts Get a Boost with Atomic-Level Tinkering
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Foundry in Focus – Summer 2025 Newsletter
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Joining Forces: Teaming Up to Illuminate Plexciton Emissions
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Making Science: Inside Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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Scientists Crack Decades-Old Puzzle in CO2-to-Fuel Conversion
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Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf That Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals
April 2025
Spring/Summer Seminar Series Begins April 22
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Former Foundry Director talks Data and Machine Learning
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A New Age of Electron Microscopy: Magnifying Possibilities with Automation
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Open Letter in Response to the 2024 Foundry User Survey
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Foundry in Focus – Spring 2025 Newsletter
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New Photon-Avalanching Nanoparticles Could Enable Next-Generation Optical Computers
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Molecular Foundry Spring 2025 Proposal Call
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A New Approach to Efficient Optoelectronics, Inspired by the Human Eye
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Ashfia Huq Named Foundry Director
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Helping Explore Mysteries of Asteroid Bennu
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Inaugural Rising Star Seminar Series Launches Jan 21
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A Tour de Force: A Discovery of New “All-optical” Nanoscale Sensors of Force
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Identification of short-range ordering motifs in semiconductors
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Accelerating Experiment Design Through AI-Driven Robot
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Multimetallic Systems Convey Cost-Effective Hydrogen Storage
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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
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Short-Wave Infrared Upconverting Nanoparticles
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Probing plexciton emission from 2D materials on gold nanotrenches
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A general flame aerosol route to high-entropy nanoceramics
October 2024
Mechanochemical Encapsulation of Palladium in Covalent Organic Frameworks
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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
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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
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Solving complex nanostructures with ptychographic atomic electron tomography
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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
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Ballistic Ejection of Microdroplets from Overpacked Interfacial Assemblies
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Closed-loop cathode recycling in solid-state batteries enabled by supramolecular electrolytes
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Imaging the electron charge density in monolayer MoS2 at the Ångstrom scale
July 2023
Machine Learning Harnessed to Make Complex Systems More Energy Efficient
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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
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Determination of peak ordering in the CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy via nanoindentation
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A Nanostructured Waveguide for Low-Density Polariton Condensation from a Bound State in the Continuum
August 2022
Circularity in mixed-plastic chemical recycling
July 2022
Tuning color centers at a twisted h-BN interface
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Cryo EM Reveals Noncovalent Bond Geometry
June 2022
Autonomous Scanning Probe Microscopy Investigations of WS2 and Au{111}
May 2022
Enabling ultralow-voltage switching in ferroelectrics
May 2022
Covalent Organic Frameworks with Irreversible Linkages via Novel Chemistry
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Localizing Sources of Quantum Decoherence
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Foundry Seminars
Early Career Spotlight: Bernard Field
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Engineering Structure–Property Correlations in Transition-Metal Nitrides for Next-generation Superconducting Quantum Platforms
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
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Tuesday, March 3, 2026
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Early Career Spotlight: Preetika Rastogi
Microscopic insights into all liquid constructs - 'Structured Liquids'
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
11:00 AM PT
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
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Early Career Spotlight: Guangzhao Chen
Anisotropic dipole-dipole interaction of NV centers in diamond
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
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Tuesday, February 17, 2026
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Early Career Spotlight: Maher Alghalayini
AI-Driven Robotic Platforms for Accelerated Materials Synthesis Discovery
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026
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Early Career Spotlight: Batyr Ilyas
Nanoscale Light Emission in Gated Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
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Early Career Spotlight: Yashwanth Balaji
Gap engineered - Asymmetric Josephson junctions for quantum information processing
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
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Advanced cryo-electron tomography via nonlinear phase retrieval
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026
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Molecular Foundry Fall 2023 Proposal Call
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Molecular Foundry Fall 2022 Proposal Call
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Molecular Foundry Spring 2022 Proposal Call
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