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October 7, 2019

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What is a molecular movie?

Molecular movie-making is both an art and a science; the results let us watch how nature works on the smallest scales.

September 23, 2019

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In brief: Breaking up buckyballs is hard to do

A new study shows how soccer ball-shaped molecules burst more slowly than expected when blasted with an X-ray laser beam.

September 16, 2019

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A new route to carbon-neutral fuels from CO2

SLAC/Stanford scientists and their colleagues find a new way to efficiently convert CO2 into the building block for sustainable liquid fuels.

September 10, 2019

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Xinru Wang wins 2019 Klein Award for research on cell signaling in enzymes

Using SLAC’s X-ray synchrotron SSRL, Wang improves fundamental knowledge about how cells communicate, which could enable the development of more effective drugs.

September 9, 2019

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Plastics, fuels and chemical feedstocks from CO2? They’re working on it.

SUNCAT researchers discover a way to improve a key step in these conversions, and explore what it would take to turn the climate-changing gas into valuable products on an industrial scale.

Diagram of scheme for turning CO2 from smokestacks into products

August 13, 2019

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How the catalytic converters in cars go bad and why it matters

A new way to arrange the hard-working atoms in this part of an exhaust system could lower the cost of curbing pollution from automotive engines.

August 5, 2019

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Scientists create artificial catalysts inspired by living enzymes

Stanford researchers have made a significant advance in the development of artificial catalysts for making cleaner chemicals and fuels at an industrial scale.