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X-ray crystallography

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The X-ray scientist is honored for 20 years of beamline and instrumentation design, operation and scientific support at SLAC’s synchrotron.

Matthew Latimer receives the Farrel W. Lytle Award.
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The early career award from SLAC’s X-ray laser recognizes Kjaer’s work in ultrafast X-ray science.

photo of Kasper Kjaer in Panofsky Auditorium
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The X-ray studies performed at SLAC will help the oil industry improve guidelines for corrosion from sulfur in crude oil.

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

Cornelius Gati and Franklin Fuller, the 2017 Panofsky fellows at SLAC
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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.

An optical laser (green) excites the iron-containing active site of the protein cytochrome c, and then an X-ray laser (white) probes the iron.
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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...

Graph of the photocatalytic water splitting performance
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A research collaboration designed a new assembly-line system that rapidly replaces exposed samples and allows the team to study reactions in real-time.

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The contaminant binds to organic matter in sediments, which increases persistence in groundwater.

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New X-ray methods have captured the highest resolution room-temperature images of photosystem II.

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The study could help develop ways to safely transport radioactive actinium through the body to target tumor cells.

SSRL at dusk
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A previously detected, anomalously large X-ray signal is absent in new Hitomi satellite data, setting tighter limits for a dark matter interpretation.

Scientists are using plasma to create electronic sensors that will track the health of astronauts.