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Jeney Wierman at SSRL

Jeney Wierman stands in the control room of SSRL. She, along with other members of the Structural Molecular Biology team...
September 21, 2022
Jeney Wierman of SLAC’s Structural Molecular Biology team
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Chitosanase crystals

Crystals of the soil virus AMG product (chitosanase) at 400x magnification. Individual crystals were cryo-cooled in liquid nitrogen before being...
August 12, 2022
Crystals of the soil virus AMG product (chitosanase) at 400x magnification.
Illustration

Array of rainbow-tinted views

August 9, 2022
an array of rainbow-tinted views of a tiny 3D object that spells "DOE"
Illustration

Topological insulator

August 17, 2022
Against a black background, thin, glowing red wires at top impinge on the hexagonal surface of a translucent mass. Small white dots travel along the edges of the surface in two directions. Within the mass, two orange cones meet at their tips.
Illustration

LCLS-II 2k cooldown

August 30, 2022
Images of frost and a thermometer superimposed over an aerial view of an accelerator building.
Illustration

Cross section of cryomodule

A cross section of the LCLS-II accelerator showing where liquid and gaseous helium flow in and out of the system.
August 30, 2022
Cross section showing pipes and liquid and gas helium
Illustration

SARS-CoV-2 Mpro

September 2, 2022
This image shows how SARS-CoV-2 Mpro recognizes and cuts NEMO based on the crystal structure determined using a powerful X-ray beam at SSRL Beam Line 12-2. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Photograph

LZ xenon purification

Xenon purification system at SLAC. The two central columns are each filled with almost half a ton of charcoal, which is used to produce...

September 14, 2022
A collection of pipes, towers, and other equipment
Animation

How krypton is removed from xenon gas

This animation shows how krypton (red) is removed from xenon gas (blue) by flowing the combined gases through a column...
September 14, 2022
A blue cloud with red spots travels downward, passing gray spots. As it does, the red spots move downward faster.
Animation

Cryomodule cavity

Now that the cavities have been cooled, the next step is to pump them with more than a megawatt of...
May 9, 2022
Cryomodule cavity animation
Illustration

Superconductor charge density coherence

May 18, 2022
A beam of light lands on a series of squiggly lines. Where the beam lands, the lines are straight.
Illustration

Nickelate stripes

June 29, 2022
Artist's illustration shows quantum states called superconductivity and charge density waves atop an atomic lattice of balls and sticks