Topic: X-ray light sources and electron imaging | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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The results should further our understanding of similar reactions with vital roles in chemistry, such as the production of vitamin D in our bodies.

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Chemical reactions often involve intermediate steps that are too fast and complex for us to see – even using our most advanced scientific instruments...

This is a graphic representation of an intermediate chemical reaction. The image shows the chemical reaction, a laser, X-rays and a detector system.

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After decades of effort, scientists have finally seen the process by which nature creates the oxygen we breathe using SLAC’s X-ray laser.

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In photosystem II, the water-splitting center cycles through four stable states

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A molecule with hooks that can grip and disable the virus’s pesky protease shows potential for fighting infection.

This graphic illustration shows how a SARS-CoV-2 protease attaches to a new molecule. The new molecule is meant to slow the virus inside an infected person.

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This ‘beautiful’ herringbone-like pattern could give rise to unique features that scientists are just starting to explore.

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This illustration depicts a herringbone-like pattern in the atomic lattice of a quantum material created by researchers at SLAC and Stanford.

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Experiments visualize how 2D perovskite structures change when excited.

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Researchers discover that electrons play a surprising role in heat transfer between layers of semiconductors, with implications for next-generation electronic devices.

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Illustration of electrons between layers of 2D semiconductor materials, facilitating rapid heat transfer.

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Researchers used cryo-EM (left) to discover how a chamber in human cells (right) directs protein folding.

A pom-pom like object with curly tangles in purple and blue shades and yellow tangles at center, reminiscent of a zinnia blossom.

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Once built, the system could produce fast X-ray pulses ten times more powerful than ever before.

illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.

X-ray light sources and electron imaging

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Researchers adapt a Nobel Prize-winning method to design new, ultra-powerful X-ray systems

In a first, researchers capture fleeting “transition state” in ring-shaped molecules excited by light

Scientists capture elusive chemical reaction using enhanced X-ray method

Researchers capture elusive missing step in the final act of photosynthesis

Photosystem II baseball

Researchers find new molecule that shows promise in slowing SARS-CoV-2

SLAC, Stanford researchers make a new type of quantum material with a dramatic distortion pattern

Distorted quantum material

Researchers can ‘see’ crystals perform their dance moves

Electronic bridge allows rapid energy sharing between semiconductors

UED electronic bridge

SLAC/Stanford researchers discover how a nano-chamber in the cell directs protein folding

Researchers adapt a Nobel Prize-winning method to design new, ultra-powerful X-ray systems