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Visitors to SLAC tour the accelerator control room during Community Day 2019.
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Perovskites’ unusual response to light could explain the high efficiency of these next-generation solar cell materials.
![Perovskites’ unusual response to light could explain the high efficiency of these next-generation solar cell materials.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/ued_perovskite_artwork_final_1200x768.jpg?h=422c88a6&itok=OczF7K8g)
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When light drives electron transfer in a molecular complex, the surrounding solvent molecules also rapidly move.
![When light drives electron transfer in a molecular complex, the surrounding solvent molecules also rapidly move.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/electron_transfer_atomic_motions_artwork_final_1200x768.jpg?h=5baddcf8&itok=2DKOq0wV)
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At left is physicist Dorian Bohler. Staff gathered in Bldg 52’s main control room on October 6, 2022 in anticipating seeing the first electrons...
![At left is physicist Dorian Bohler. Staff gathered in Bldg 52's main control room on October 6, 2022 in anticipating seeing the first electrons from LCLS-II.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/2022_1006_Waiting_LCLS_II_First_Electrons_Bldg_52_Control_Room_McCulloch-4.jpg?h=7b753ac8&itok=lLlT4ANT)
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Lydia-Marie Joubert is pointing at the result of laminating an organic sample down to 100-300nm thickness for cryo-EM imaging. For...
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Studying a material that even more closely resembles the composition of ice giants, researchers found that oxygen boosts the formation...
![MEC diamond formation](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/mec_diamond_formation_la_final.jpg?h=5a5fc591&itok=R7nVM1I9)
![mec silicon structures](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/mec_silicon_sv_structures_final.jpg?h=f859c9f6&itok=iRpcraiQ)
![A web of red material encapsulates blue polyhedrons.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-11/stable_catalyst_illustration_la_final.jpg?h=2bf5e2d1&itok=M_CPrIdk)
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