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SSRL is a pioneering synchrotron radiation facility known for outstanding science, technological innovation and user support. It provides extremely bright X-rays that scientists use for a wide range of research that probes matter on the scales of atoms and molecules.

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Shweta Saraf and her team work to ensure the LCLS beamline runs without interruption. 

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The upgrades to SSRL’s resonant soft X-ray scattering beam line could reveal the hidden physics in high-temperature superconductors.

A gold beam strikes a sample inside a copper colored apparatus. A white beam emerges.
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SLAC researchers drew on advanced computation and X-ray methods to track down a water-splitting copper catalyst.

Illustration of X-ray beam interacting with the catalyst surface.
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He met with SLAC staff and toured the lab’s cutting-edge facilities, diving into world-leading research in X-ray and ultrafast science, artificial intelligence, astrophysics and...

Secretary Wright Visit LCLS
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Oxidizing chemicals break this cellular power plant into useless bits, leading to  Parkinson’s disease, ALS, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and more. A small molecule...

Purple dots arranged in bunches.
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Developed at SSRL, the method could help make those electrochemical conversions more robust and efficient.

A yellow beam strikes a semicircle resting atop a square wave figure.
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Advanced imaging technique reveals catalyst degradation processes, addressing a key barrier to converting carbon dioxide into liquid fuel.

Walter Drisdell and Aidan Coffey of Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab’s LiSA research facility adjusting a pump that flows liquid through the electrochemical cell
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The new findings highlight the need for ongoing monitoring of H5N1’s evolution in nature. 

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Following a boom in catalysis users at SSRL, Beam Line 10-2 has been transformed and outfitted with new technologies. 

Beam Line 10-2 hutch
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The Hubbard Model was unable to predict electron dynamics in a simplified, one-dimensional cuprate system, hinting at an additional attractive force. 

Illustration of ultrastrong attraction between electrons in neighboring atoms within a 1D cuprate chain
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Nickel dopants could improve sustainable production of ethylene oxide, a chemical widely used in industrial manufacturing.

An illustration of purple balls (oxygen) gather near a nickel atom embedded in a sheet of silver.
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Supported by SLAC’s catalysis group, researchers have discovered a promising method to remove contaminants during the making of polymers.

Molecules strike a material below.