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The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory is a national synchrotron x-ray research facility funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. The APS provides the brightest x-ray beams in the Western Hemisphere to more than 5,000 scientists worldwide.
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Science and Research Highlights
April 23, 2009
Combining the results from several powerful techniques for studying materials structure at the nanoscale, including work at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, researchers believe they have settled a long-standing debate over the source of the unique electronic properties of a material with potentially great importance for wireless communications.
April 21, 2009
The technology for storing electronic information has been a major force in the electronics industry for decades. Improving this technology to keep up with new requirements and trends has been an economic driver for as long as the technology has been around. Now, low-power, high-efficiency electronic memory could be the result of research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.
April 20, 2009
Sodium might appear to be an unassuming member of the Periodic Table of Elements, but scientists using the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory have discovered that sodium displays a unique property by turning transparent when pressure is applied. This result has important implications for understanding highly compressed matter, in particular inside stars and giant planets.
March 12, 2009
Ever since the Bronze Age, humans have experimented with combining different metals to create alloys having properties superior to either metal alone. But not all metals readily form alloys. Researchers using high-brilliance x-rays from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source have discovered that previously impossible alloys can be created by subjecting atoms to high pressure―opening possibilities for new materials in the future.
March 5, 2009
Researchers using an x-ray beamline at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source have gained new information on how the motions of entangled polymer chains in a thin liquid film freeze as the film approaches the temperature at which the liquid goes into a glassy state.
March 3, 2009
A snapshot of the elegant dance performed by viral proteins as they create the infectious structure that causes all manner of misery and disease has been captured by scientists using the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. Their work may help drug developers pinpoint attack sites for pharmaceuticals, and could have an impact on the emerging field of medical nanotechnology.
March 3, 2009
Power plants based on turbine engines burning natural gas are a key component of future energy grids in the U.S. and other nations. A team of researchers applied the high-brightness x-ray beams from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory to finding ways of incorporating new materials for this promising energy source.APS News
April 29, 2009
The Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory and the APS Users Organization announced that the 2009 Arthur H. Compton Award will be presented to Gerhard Grübel, Simon Mochrie, and Mark Sutton for their pioneering efforts in x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy.
April 28, 2009
Michel van Veenendaal of the Argonne X-ray Science Division’s Synchrotron Related Theory Group has been awarded a Northern Illinois University Presidential Research Professorship.
April 22, 2009
The world's brightest x-ray source sprang to life last week at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Linac Coherent Light Source offers researchers the first-ever glimpse of high-energy or "hard" x-ray laser light produced in a laboratory.
