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March 25, 2021
News Feature
Scientists uncover a process that stands in the way of making quantum dots brighter
The results have important implications for today’s TV and display screens and for future technologies where light takes the place of electrons and fluids.
Illustration of three quantum dot nanocrystals showing atomic-level changes when they are hit with laser light
February 1, 2021
News Feature
New Stanford-SLAC effort encourages electron microscopy work across boundaries
Stanford EM-X brings hundreds of researchers around the world together to discuss the latest methods and discoveries from electron microscopes.
Black and white electron microscope images of pollen.
January 5, 2021
News Feature
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Stanford single-dose nanoparticle vaccine for COVID-19
Researchers at Stanford are working to develop a single-dose vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 that could potentially be stored at room temperature.
The ferritin nanoparticle, shown with red center and six blue spikes.
November 4, 2020
News Brief
SLAC, Stanford to host national service center for cryo-ET sample preparation
The center complements other NIH centers at SLAC and elsewhere that broaden access to this cutting-edge technology for biomedical research.
Cryo-EM images of yeast cells with contents highlighted
September 23, 2020
News Brief
SLAC invention could make particle accelerators 10 times smaller
It uses terahertz radiation to power a miniscule copper accelerator structure.
Terahertz acclerator structure
August 18, 2020
News Brief
Cryo-EM study yields new clues to chicken pox infection
Stanford and SLAC scientists studying the varicella zoster virus found that an antibody that blocks infection doesn’t work exactly as they’d thought.
May 21, 2020
News Feature
Researchers capture the coordinated dance between electrons and nuclei in a light-excited molecule
Revealing both sides of the story in a single experiment has been a grand scientific challenge.
nuclear and electronic
April 9, 2020
News Feature
In a first, researchers use ultrafast ‘electron camera’ to learn about molecules in liquid samples
This new technology could enable future insights into chemical and biological processes that occur in solution, such as vision, catalysis and photosynthesis.
UED liquid
March 5, 2020
News Feature
Terahertz radiation technique opens a new door for studying atomic behavior
Researchers have squeezed a high-energy electron beam into tight bundles using terahertz radiation, a promising advance in watching the ultrafast world of atoms unfold.
Snively-Othman-UED
February 11, 2020
News Brief
Atom or noise? New method helps cryo-EM researchers tell the difference
Cryogenic electron microscopy can in principle make out individual atoms in a molecule, but distinguishing the crisp from the blurry parts of an image can be a challenge. A new mathematical method may help.
An overall image of the apoferritin molecule (left) and a small section (right)

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