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Competition for Graphene: Berkeley Lab Researchers Demonstrate Ultrafast Charge Transfer in New Family of 2D Semiconductors

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Illustration of a MoS2/WS2 heterostructure with a MoS2 monolayer lying on top of a WS2 monolayer. Electrons and holes created by light are...

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Symphony of nanoplasmonic and optical resonators leads to magnificent laser-like light emission

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Hybrid optoplasmonic system showing the operation of amplification.

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Researchers Map Quantum Vortices Inside Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets - See more at: http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2014/08/21/researchers-map-quantum-vortices-inside-superfluid-helium-nanodroplets/#sthash.I4qBLFRX.dpuf

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Illustration of analysis of superfluid helium nanodroplets. Droplets are emitted via a cooled nozzle...

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First Galileo spacecraft launched carrying navigational payloads supplied by UK company, SSTL

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Tissue regeneration using anti-inflammatory nanomolecules

The research group of Arun Sharma, PhD has been working on innovative approaches to tissue regeneration in order to improve the lives of patients with urinary bladder dysfunction. Among their breakthroughs was a medical model for regenerating bladders...

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A breakthrough in imaging gold nanoparticles to atomic resolution by electron microscopy

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This is a visualization of the atomic structure of the Au68 gold nanoparticle determined by electron microscopy. The colored spheres denote...

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Shaping the Future of Nanocrystals: Berkeley Lab Researchers Obtain First Direct Observation of Facet Formation in Nanocubes

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Berkeley Lab researchers found that differences in ligand mobility during crystallization cause the low index facets – {100}, {110} and {...

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Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton

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The Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Triton, a moon of Neptune, in the summer of 1989. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lunar...

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