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Latest Foundry News

It’s Your Lab: Foundry Staff Describe How National User Facilities Democratize Access to Science

January 2023

Electronic Bridge Allows Rapid Energy Sharing Between Semiconductors

January 2023

Winter 2023 Seminar Series Begins January 17

January 2023

Have a Nano New Year: Download the Foundry’s 2023 NanoArt Calendar!

December 2022

Foundry User Sharpless Highlights the Foundry in Nobel Lecture

December 2022

Celebrating the 2022 Holiday Season

December 2022

Borrowing building blocks from bacteria to create a more sustainable future

December 2022

Foundry Hosts End of Year Cookie Swap

December 2022

Say Hello to the Toughest Material on Earth

December 2022

To Make a Better Electron Microscope, Go Straight to the Electron Source

December 2022

Foundry in Focus – Fall 2022 Newsletter

November 2022

Foundry Researchers Co-Organize Winter School for Quantum Information Science

November 2022

Foundry’s Griffin and Ralston Honored with Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards

November 2022

Molecular Cage Protects Precious Metals in Catalytic Converters

October 2022

Foundry Industry Users Announce First Large-Scale Production of Battery Grade Prussian Blue Materials

October 2022

A Sharper, Deeper View into Semiconductor Nanostructures

October 2022

Announcing the Winners of the 2022 NanoArt Competition

October 2022

Boron Nitride with a Twist Could Lead to New Way to Make Qubits

October 2022

Former Foundry Director Carolyn Bertozzi wins 2022 Chemistry Nobel Prize

October 2022

Recycling Plastic One Carbon at a Time

September 2022

Foundry’s Laurie Chong Recognized as a 2022 Outstanding STEM Ambassador

September 2022

Foundry PostDocs Among Lindau Meeting Participants

September 2022

Fall 2022 Seminar Series Begins September 13

September 2022

Foundry in Focus – Summer 2022 Newsletter

August 2022

Scientists Grow Lead-Free Solar Material With a Built-In Switch

August 2022

Experimental test of the topological stability of magnetic skyrmions

August 2022

A Faster Way to Study 2D Materials for Next-Generation Quantum and Electronic Devices

August 2022

Foundry’s Ed Barnard Contributes to R&D100-winning Innovation

August 2022

Stimulating Symposia – 2022 AUM Day 2

August 2022

Coming together for the 2022 Annual User Meeting: Day 1

August 2022

A New Synthetic Route to Porous Polymer Materials for Proton Transport

August 2022

Nanoshell catalysts turn greenhouse gases into useful chemicals

August 2022

Designer Materials to Keep Plastic Out of Landfills

July 2022

How Do Nanoparticles Grow? Atomic-Scale Movie Upends 100-Year-Old Theory

July 2022

New Ultrathin Capacitor Could Enable Energy-Efficient Microchips

June 2022

Foundry’s Tracy Mattox Featured by Berkeley Lab

June 2022

Foundry in Focus – Spring 2022 Newsletter

May 2022

Foundry’s Sinéad Griffin Featured in The Irish Times

May 2022

Community Creates Artwork for Foundry Lactation Room

May 2022

Foundry’s Colin Ophus Awarded the Burton Medal from the Microscopy Society of America

April 2022

Using Hundred-Year-Old Chemistry to Capture Carbon Directly From Air

April 2022

Spring 2022 Seminar Series Begins April 26

April 2022

Foundry Industry Users Mosaic Materials Acquired by Baker Hughes

April 2022

Scientists Uncover Surprising New Clues to Exotic Superconductors’ Superpowers

March 2022

Pulling Magnetic Skyrmions out of Thin Air

March 2022

2022 Information Session: Writing Molecular Foundry User Proposals

March 2022

Combining AI and Atomic-scale Images in Pursuit of Better Batteries

February 2022

Molecular Foundry Spring 2022 Proposal Call

February 2022

Foundry in Focus – Winter 2022 Newsletter

February 2022

Recent Science Highlights

Determination of peak ordering in the CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy via nanoindentation

December 2022

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

July 2022

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

April 2022

Localizing Sources of Quantum Decoherence

April 2022

Defect-mediated ripening of core-shell nanostructures

April 2022

Ferroelectricity in a semiconducting all-inorganic halide perovskite

March 2022

Reversible Dehydrogenation-Rehydrogenation Using Single-Site Platinum Catalysts

March 2022

Optimizing Cathodoluminescence Spectroscopy Through Nanoscale Heterostructure Design

March 2022

Spin-Dependent Vibronic Response of Carbon Radical Ions in 2D Tungsten Disulfide

February 2022

Revealing Lithium Metal’s Electronic Structure

January 2022

Exploring the Pb1-xSrxHfO3 System: High Capacitive Energy Storage Density and Efficiency

January 2022

Accelerated Discovery and Synthesis of Metal Halide Perovskites with Different Dimensionality

January 2022

Observation of a quantum phase transition without symmetry breaking in CeCoIn5

December 2021

Continuous, autonomous sub-surface cargo shuttling

December 2021

Temperature-adaptive radiative coating (TARC) for household thermal regulation

December 2021

Performance-limiting formation dynamics in mixed-halide perovskites

December 2021

Topochemical Synthesis of Soluble Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polymers for Energy Storage

December 2021

Anisotropic Carrier Transport in Chemically Stable Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks

November 2021

Correspondence between neuroevolution and gradient descent

November 2021

Imaging reconfigurable molecular concentration on a graphene field-effect transistor

November 2021

Cryo-forged Titanium Shows the More Twins are Better

October 2021

Water is ice-like at TiO2-aqueous solution interfaces

October 2021

Orbital Angular Momentum from Self-Assembled Concentric Nanoparticle Rings

September 2021

Ultra-flat Supporting Grid for Cryogenic Electron Microscopy Imaging of Planar Soft Specimens

September 2021

Di-Tungsten Carbide Driven Catalysis of CO2 Reduction

September 2021

Microbe-Assisted Nanocomposite Anodes for Aqueous Li-Ion Batteries

August 2021

First Photo-induced Melting of Tantalum Ditelluride

August 2021

Tellurium Single-Crystal Arrays by Low-Temperature Evaporation and Crystallization

August 2021

Diversifying Composition Leads to Hierarchical Composites with Design Flexibility and Structural Fidelity

July 2021

Observation of Surface Ligands Controlled Etching of Palladium Nanocrystals

July 2021

An evolutionary approach to synthesis by design

July 2021

Illuminating the Workings of the Brain by Controlling Light at the Nanoscale

June 2021

Biomimetic Peptoids with Potent Antiviral Activity

June 2021

Ultra-flat Supporting Grid for Cryogenic Electron Microscopy Imaging of Planar Soft Specimens

June 2021

Crystallization of nanoparticles induced by precipitation of trace polymeric additives

May 2021

Improved Desalination Process Also Removes Toxic Metals to Produce Clean Water

May 2021

Observation of Surface Ligands Controlled Etching of Palladium Nanocrystals

April 2021

a rendering of a new polymer membrane filled with 'molecular cages' that can selectively trap lithium ions

Designing selective membranes for batteries using a drug discovery toolbox

April 2021

An image of the 3D map of a nanoparticle of metallic glass

First-Ever 3D Atomic Imaging of an Amorphous Solid

April 2021

First Ever Measurements of Einsteinium

March 2021

Probing Electronic Structure in Berkelium and Californium with TEM

March 2021

Creation and observation of Hopfions in magnetic multilayers

March 2021

Two-Step Patterning of Scalable All-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Arrays

February 2021

Capturing Moments of Crystal Nucleation at the Atomic Scale

February 2021

Chiral Spin Textures in Amorphous Iron–Germanium Films

January 2021

Foundry Seminars

The Molecular Foundry regularly offers seminars and events that feature compelling research and information for those who investigate at the nanoscale. Seminars occur on Tuesdays at 11:00 am, in Building 67, Room 3111 unless otherwise noted.

Heather Whiteman, UC Berkeley

The Power of People Data: How we use data about, on and for people to bring about a more inclusive world of work
An IDEA seminar

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
11:00 AM PT

Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University

GaN as a Key Material for Power and Signal Management as well as Photon and Electron Source

Tuesday, March 7, 2023
4:00 PM PT

Anika Schlenhoff, University of Munster

Spin-Polarized Resonant Tunneling - a New Tool for Sensing and Manipulating Spin Textures on the Atomic Scale

Tuesday, February 28, 2023
11:00 AM PT

Peter van Aken, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

Electronic-Structure Engineering through Atomic-Scale Strain Control in Complex Oxide Heterostructures

Tuesday, February 21, 2023
11:00 AM PT

Milad Abolhasani, NC State

Self-Driving Fluidic Labs: A Voyage through the Chemical Universe en route to Smart Manufacturing

Tuesday, February 14, 2023
11:00 AM PT

Susan Marqusee, UC Berkeley

Interrogating a Protein's Energy Landscape: From Protein Folding to Coronavirus

Tuesday, February 7, 2023
11:00 AM PT

Curtis Berlinguette, University of British Columbia

Reactive Carbon Capture
A Joint Foundry/ALS Seminar

Tuesday, January 31, 2023
11:00 AM PT

Chang-Yong Nam, Brookhaven National Lab

Vapor-Phase Infiltration for Energy-Efficient, Extremely Downscaled Semiconductor Devices

Tuesday, January 24, 2023
11:00 AM PT

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Foundry Events

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

Information Session: Writing Molecular Foundry User Proposals

The 2020 Molecular Foundry User Meeting is going virtual!

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Foundry in Focus Newsletter

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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