Molecular Foundry

Join us on Tuesday at 11am PT for our joint Foundry/ Advanced Light Source seminar featuring Clare Grey from University of Cambridge. She'll give a talk on new tools for tracking #battery function and failure. Zoom link & more at:https://buff.ly/3z2eKUZ cc: Berkeley Lab

The latest issue of our Foundry in Focus newsletter is out! Check out the newest science and read an update from Foundry Director Kristin Persson.

This week on Tuesday at 11am PT, Katherine Jungjohann of Sandia National Labs joins us with a seminar on studying nanoscale solid-liquid interfaces with in-situ and cryo EM. Get the zoom link & more at: https://buff.ly/2Qp1qIz

Join us on Tuesday at 11am PT for a seminar by Ralph Dammel from Merck! He'll talk about Moore's Law 2.0. Get the zoom link & more at: https://buff.ly/2RXMO3m

Join us today for the first seminar in our spring 2021 series! Simon Scheuring from Weill Cornell Medicine will deliver a talk at 11am PT titled: High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy: A forceful Tool for Molecular #Biophysics. Open to all! Zoom link & more here:

The latest episode of our Foundry from Home podcast is out! Hear how our Theory facility has been finding ways around the lack of informal hallway discussions and how they've been working on improving data sharing. Listing now: https://buff.ly/3u4eOzN cc: Berkeley Lab

The Foundry’s 2021 Virtual Spring Seminar Series begins next week on 4/27 at 11 am PT with a talk by Simon Scheuring from Weill Cornell Medicine. Get the zoom link and find out about our other seminars in the series here: https://buff.ly/3gphhl8 cc: Berkeley Lab

Today, Berkeley Lab's Women in Science and Engineering Council recognized 15 outstanding women for their contributions. Congratulations to the Foundry's Mary Scott and Liana Klivanksy, and former UEC Chair Francesca Toma! https://buff.ly/3sIEIt6

Happy Birthday Foundry! The Molecular Foundry was founded on March 24, 2006. Today we're celebrating 15 years of groundbreaking #nanoscience research! Read Director Kristin Persson's message commemorating this milestone here: https://buff.ly/3cgcsYL cc: Berkeley Lab

Foundry Director Kristin Persson brings our Winter Seminar Series to a close tomorrow (3/23) with a talk on data-driven materials innovation and design. Join us at 11 am PT! Zoom link & more at: https://buff.ly/3rbqu2a cc: Berkeley Lab

We’re announcing the winners of our 2020 NanoArt Contest! Out of a competitive group of entries, this year’s winner is Lukas Hackl and Mary Carmen Reid of UC Berkeley with their image of ion-exchange resin beads used in water softening and purification. Learn more about this image and all of the other winners here: https://foundry.lbl.gov/2020/10/19/nanoart-2020/ Berkeley Lab #scienceasart

Happy #NationalNanoDay! We celebrate 10/9 because 1 nanometer is 10^-9 meters in scientific notation! #Nanoscience is everywhere in our daily lives from the cell phone in your pocket, to developing new materials for medical devices, to cleaning our air and water! Our Director, Kristin Persson, accepted our challenge to explain nanoscience at 4 different 'levels.' She chatted with four students a kindergartener, a middle schooler, a high school senior, and a grad student. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/nvQIdnYH960 cc:Berkeley Lab

Enjoy this drone’s eye view of our lab as you’ve never seen it before, including the Advanced Light Source, Molecular Foundry, NERSC, DOE Joint Genome Institute, and #FLEXLAB facilities! #drone

Berkeley Lab was founded 89 years ago today! And 75 years later, a very cool nanoscience lab landed on the scene...

Register now for the Molecular Foundry User Meeting, an annual nanoscience conference hosted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. https://usermeeting2020.foundry.lbl.gov

Frontier nanoscience research. Free & open access. Register now for the Molecular Foundry User Meeting! https://usermeeting2020.foundry.lbl.gov... The Molecular Foundry’s 2020 Annual User Meeting will be hosted virtually with free registration to bring our scientific community together in a safe and accessible format. This annual conference focuses on frontier research topics of interest to that community of users, providing a forum to disseminate results and exchange ideas, and bringing together leading researchers, junior scientists, postdocs, and students. Join us!

See 3D images of platinum particles rotating in liquid in the TEAM I electron microscope. Each nanoparticle has ~600 atoms, imaged with incredible precision. Video: https://youtu.be/HypLLu9-ON0 Read more: http://foundry.lbl.gov/2020/04/09/3d-single-snapshot/... LBL snapshot: http://newscenter.lbl.gov///3d-nanoparticles-atom-by-atom/

Update: The Molecular Foundry’s Spring Proposal Call deadline has been extended by three weeks to April 23. Accordingly, the review decisions will be communicated to users by June 5. In addition, all currently active proposals will be extended by one month. To learn more and to submit your proposal, click here: https://foundry.lbl.gov/20//02/foundry-proposal-call-2020/... Stay safe and healthy.

Explaining science with the most common #TenHundredWords w/ Dr. Jim Ciston! Make Look Bigger Machine: We can make very tiny rocks. They are as tiny next to a ball as a ball is tiny next to the whole world. We make the rocks so tiny because some of these rocks do very different things than the rocks that are big enough to see. These rocks are so tiny that it is not possible to see them with our eyes or even with very strong light-glasses. Now we need an even stronger Make Lo...ok Bigger Machine. This machine shows you a lot about what your tiny rocks are made of, just how tiny they are, and what makes them different from big rocks. Read about the the Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope (TEAM, aka "Make Look Bigger Machine")! foundry.lbl.gov/instrumentation/team-i/ Learn more about Dr. Ciston's research here at the Molecular Foundry as a Staff Scientist at the National Center for Electron Microscopy: foundry.lbl.gov/about/staff/jim-ciston/ #ScienceSimplified by Berkeley Lab Inspired by xkcd's #upgoerfive

Foundry scientists landed the cover of ACS Nano (ACS Publications) with a study on low-threshold microlasers using upconverting nanoparticles. These micron-sized lasers can be used in living organisms (e.g., brain tissue, or blood serum) or in microelectronics, for applications in imaging, sensing, and actuation. What could you do with a tiny laser?... Read the study: http://tinyurl.com/nanolasers Great job Bruce Cohen, Shaul Aloni, Virginia Altoe, Emory Chan, & coauthors! w/ Berkeley Lab Harbin Institute of Technology Columbia University's Mechanical Engineering Dept Berkeley Mechanical Engineering