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ALS-United: Thomas Gaucher, Raul Mascote, and Adrian Williams

ALS-United is an opportunity to meet the people collaborating at the Advanced Light Source and the ALS Upgrade Project. Hear firsthand how team science enables the cutting-edge research of today and builds the facility of the future. This month, we spoke with Thomas Gaucher (Manufacturing Engineer), Raul Mascombe (Engineering Technical Associate), and Adrian Williams (Engineering Technical Associate). Read more »

Accelerate UX Workshop Brings Global Expertise Together at the ALS

Staff from eleven different accelerator lab facilities gathered at the ALS to improve the user experience for operators, researchers, engineers, and more. Workshop participants learned from experts in the UX field and even took part in a hackathon that paired beamline scientists with interface developers. Read more »

Strength in Numbers: Nanopatterns Amplify X-Ray Signals from Buried Interfaces

Berkeley Lab researchers developed a new x-ray technique that uses nanoscale patterns to amplify weak signals, allowing scientists to observe chemical reactions at buried solid–liquid interfaces that were previously challenging to study. Read more »

Aerosol Chemistry Offers Clues to the Arctic’s Future

Researchers used scanning transmission x-ray microscopy to analyze Arctic aerosols, which strongly influence cloud formation and overall climate. Understanding what these particles are and how they change as they travel could help improve climate models and yield more accurate predictions of the changing Arctic environment’s global impact. Read more »

Xu, J., X. Zhang, L. Ma, T. Wu, H. Wang, Y. Deng, J. Xia, Z. Qiu, K. Sun, A. He, J. Zhang, X. Zhang, and B. Chen, “Regulation of Energy and Mass Transport in a Hydrogen-Bonded Framework for Visible-Light-Driven CO₂ Reduction in Water,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 148, 16079 (2026), doi:10.1021/jacs.6c00570 (April 8, 2026).
Yang, X., C.-H. Hsu, G. Acharya, J. Zhang, M.S. Hossain, T.A. Cochran, B. Neupane, Z. Cheng, S.K. Chhetri, B. Kim, S. Gao, Y. Jiang, M. Litskevich, J. Wang, Y. Wang, J. Hu, and M.Z. Hasan, “Structurally Driven, Reversible Topological Phase Transition in a Distorted Square Net Material,” Physical Review Letters 136, 116603 (2026), doi:10.1103/spbv-1xg6 (March 17, 2026).
Das, K., K. Reidy, S. Husain, J.H. Park, H. Jayakumar, V. Thampy, C. Klewe, R. Ramesh, A. Minor, A. Raja, and S. Salahuddin, “Ferroelectricity in atomic-scale titanium dioxide dielectric films,” Science 392, 280 (2026), doi:10.1126/science.aec9417 (March 5, 2026).
Biswas, S., A. Isakov, N.A. Dias, M.T. Finn, J. Cokas, A. Epshteyn, A.N. Alexandrova, M. Ahmed, and R.-I. Kaiser, “Low-Temperature Non-Oxidative Coupling of Methane on Atomically Dispersed Titanium-Aluminum-Boron Nanopowder,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 148, 10205 (2026), doi:10.1021/jacs.6c01503 (February 24, 2026).
Fu, Y.-K., S.J. Teat, Z. Jia, H. Huang, F. Yang, S.N. Yannucci, X.-R. Wang, L. Wang, J. Zhang, N.L. Rosi, and Y. Han, “In Situ Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction Determinations of Cooperative Ammonia Capture in a Metal-Organic Framework,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 148, 8946 (2026), doi:10.1021/jacs.5c21955 (February 18, 2026).

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A New Framework for Designing Synthetic Enzymes

ALS-United: Thomas Gaucher, Raul Mascote, and Adrian Williams

Accelerate UX Workshop Brings Global Expertise Together at the ALS

Strength in Numbers: Nanopatterns Amplify X-Ray Signals from Buried Interfaces

Aerosol Chemistry Offers Clues to the Arctic’s Future

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