At LCLS, crystallized ribosomes travel through a capillary into the interaction region, where they are zapped with a beam of X-rays.
![At LCLS, crystallized ribosomes travel through a capillary into the interaction region, where they are zapped with a beam of X-rays.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/44943593144_f53c15a6cc_o_1200x768.jpg?h=07c03992&itok=C5Vf0B9Q)
Researchers used SLAC’s ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) as an electron camera to take snapshots of a three-atom-thick layer of a promising material as it...
![UED electron camera takes snapshots of dynamic ripples.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/UED-MoS2-Ripples3_0.jpg?h=748133d4&itok=2EueSwLE)
Researchers made the first microscopic movies of liquids getting vaporized by SLAC’s X-ray free-electron laser LCLS.
![First microscopic movies of liquids getting vaporized by SLAC’s X-ray free-electron laser LCLS.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/5744437614ab6.jpeg?h=eb808868&itok=wEtVidF7)
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Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) Hutch 6, located in the LCLS Far Experimental Hall.
![Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) Hutch 6, located in the LCLS Far Experimental Hall.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/Scientific_facilities_MEC_hutch.jpg?h=945b5590&itok=NgcmkRy-)
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Chandra Curry at the Matter in Extreme Conditions experimental hutch 6 at LCLS.
![Chandra Curry working in the MEC hutch](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/2022_0208_Chandra_Curry_MEC_Hutch_Orrell-30.png?h=baa27cde&itok=LYxe87qO)
In this illustration, the pairs of red spheres are escaping oxygen atoms and purple spheres are metal ions. This new understanding could lead to...
![Illustration of oxygen atoms leaving a lithium-ion battery as lithium flows in alongside a battery whose energy is being sapped by this process](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lithium_ion_oxygen_migration_la_final.jpg?h=32f6f5da&itok=E5SJYfqm)
SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Near Experimental Hall building at sunrise with Stanford University Hoover Tower in the background.
![SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Near Experimental Hall building at sunrise with Stanford University Hoover Tower in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/52003122146_2c9bb234eb_o.jpg?h=2f08a75f&itok=hH_-OZzw)
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![SLAC staff scientist Alexander Reid, the first user of the lab's instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED).](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/2019_0708_MeV-UED%201st_user-3451.jpg?h=5b79b311&itok=7j4WQ-6X)