X-ray spectroscopy

Garcia-Esparza’s research offers unique insights into catalysts relevant to renewable energy generation and emerging materials for microelectronics.

Bringing ultrafast physics to structural biology has revealed the coordinated dance of molecules in unprecedented clarity, which could aid in the design of new light-responsive materials.

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

To invent a new tool for studying how chemicals react at interfaces, researchers shoot tiny jets of oil and water at each other and illuminate them.

Fan’s X-ray crystallography work at SLAC’s synchrotron moves us closer to a more protective coronavirus vaccine and a better understanding of how vital materials flow in and out of cells.

By revealing the chemistry of plant secretions, or exudates, these studies build a basis for better understanding and conserving art and tools made with plant materials.

The facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from quantum devices to clean energy.

A physical chemist and a diverse group of his students are working on applications with nanoscopic diamonds.

New research questions ‘whiff of oxygen’ in Earth’s early history.

A better understanding of this process could inform the next generation of artificial photosynthetic systems that produce clean and renewable energy.

Scientists who perform experiments at SLAC’s lightsources gathered online for research talks, workshops and discussions.

The award recognizes Aitbekova's work on catalysts, including a new catalyst that may revolutionize car emission controls.