For those of you watching from afar news of Hurricane Sandy passing over the Mid-Atlantic region, the pictures and videos were pretty grim. Fortunately, I can report that the outer bands of Sandy brought wind gusts just under 71 mph and less than an inch of rain to the Upton site. Under those local conditions, both NSLS and NSLS-II had no trouble weathering the storm.
Together, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Basic Energy Sciences program have awarded about $350,000 to fund the development of a tender energy microprobe. The instrument will be installed at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) and will go on to be used at NSLS-II.
Researchers using x-rays to study a single-atom-thick layer of carbon, called graphene, have learned new information about its atomic bonding and electronic properties when the material is “doped” with nitrogen atoms.
In the search for clean and sustainable alternative energy sources, pure hydrogen is king. Currently, hydrogen is produced by reforming natural gas, but that process relies on a limited supply of fossil fuels and generates carbon dioxide as a byproduct. The hydrogen created from natural gas also contains impurities, which degrades fuel cell performance.
Much-needed mobile phone service is now available throughout the ring building and the laboratory-office buildings (LOBs) at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II). Sprint, one of the primary cell-phone providers for Brookhaven National Laboratory, installed a repeater antenna system free of charge and it is now operational.
Photon Sciences staff and the user community have organized or participated in workshops through the year to encourage development of early science at the National Synchrotron Light Source II. This effort informs the development of beamlines at the new facility.
When Julius Makra came to New York by boat from his native country of Hungary in the years before World War I, he had no idea that his employment at the Camp Upton Army base on Long Island would set into motion what may be Brookhaven Lab’s longest running lineage.
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