Chemistry and catalysis

With SLAC’s X-ray laser, a research team captured ultrafast changes in fluorescent proteins between “dark” and “light” states. The insights allowed the scientists to design improved markers for biological imaging.

Kumar’s work, carried out in part at SSRL, explains how memristors work – a new class of electronic devices with applications in next-generation information storage and computing.

Over the next five years they’ll work on getting significantly more information about how catalysts work and improving biological imaging methods.

With SLAC’s X-ray laser and synchrotron, scientists measured exactly how much energy goes into keeping this crucial bond from triggering a cell's death spiral.

A recent discovery by scientists from the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis could lead to a new, more sustainable way to make ethanol without corn or other crops.

Scientists have developed a new molybdenum-coated catalyst that more efficiently generates hydrogen gas, which could lead to a sustainable clean fuel source in the future.

An advance by SLAC and Stanford researchers greatly reduces the time needed to analyze complex catalytic reactions for making fuel, industrial chemicals and other products, and should improve computational analysis throughout chemistry.

Researchers at SLAC are already looking at the largely unexplored realm of attosecond science.

PULSE scientist Amy Cordones-Hahn describes her work on chemical reactions that turn sunlight into useable energy.

Explore the fourth dimension, from processes that occur in billions of years down to tiny slivers of a second.

Accelerator physicist Agostino Marinelli discusses how SLAC's X-ray laser makes femtosecond light.

Ryan Coffee, scientist at the Linac Coherent Light Source, explains in a video interview.