Adding natural elements to synthetic catalysts speeds hydrogen production

Scientists show how adding amino acids far from a catalyst's center can rev it up

Released: February 13, 2013

EMSL resources helped scientists study how adding amino acid molecules to a nickel-based catalyst improves its efficiency and could potentially result in catalysts made from abundant, rather than scarce elements.

Laskin named EMSL research fellow

2013 Wiley Research Fellow selected

Released: February 12, 2013

EMSL has appointed Julia Laskin a 2013 Wiley Research Fellow for her significant contributions to the user facility and collaborative research.

Baer organizes AAAS symposium

Seminar explores direct images and diffraction patterns of nanostructures

Released: February 12, 2013

Don Baer, EMSL, and Eric Stach, Brookhaven National Laboratory, co-organize a symposium on the direct imaging of atomic structures for the AAAS 2013 Annual Meeting Feb. 15 in Boston.

Placing protons in the right spot lets catalysts avoid wasting time and energy on profligate reactions

Released: February 11, 2013

EMSL computing resources help scientists gain a better understanding of how efficiently protons move in different configurations of a common catalyst.

EMSL and DOE-JGI announce a joint call for exploratory collaborations

Letters of intent accepted Feb. 11-April 8

Released: February 08, 2013

EMSL and the DOE Joint Genome Institute launch a call for pilot projects to address biofuels production and carbon cycling.

Protein probes

New protein probes find enzymes for biofuel production

Released: February 05, 2013

New protein probes and proteomics tools at EMSL are helping scientists find the best biomass-to-biofuel production enzymes that nature has to offer.

Seeing a common catalyst with new eyes

Chemical imaging microscope shows corrugated gamma-alumina surface

Released: February 05, 2013

Scientists used EMSL’s microscopy capabilities to create ultrahigh-resolution images of the surface of gamma-alumina nanoparticles, which could lead to improved catalysts for reducing refineries' energy demands or vehicle emissions.

See the light

Ultrafast chemical imaging lights the way to monolayer and nanometer spatial resolution

Released: February 01, 2013

EMSL user Markus Raschke, University of Colorado at Boulder, partnered with EMSL staff to develop the infrared scattering type scanning near-field microscope, or IR s-SNOM, that delivers imaging capabilities with near single-molecule sensitivity.