The joint workshop between the Winton Program for the Physics of Sustainability at the University of Cambridge and Kavli ENSI, took place from September 23-27, 2019. The purpose of this conference is to foster interaction between the themes of Winton...
The American Physical Society (APS) has elected the Society's 2019 Fellows. The APS Fellowship Program recognizes members who have made exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise in physics research, important applications of physics, leadership in or service to physics, or significant contributions to physics education.
Each year, no more than one half of one percent of the Society membership is recognized by their peers for election to the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society. This year, 168 Fellows were selected and recognized for their contributions to...
Four Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists have been elected into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Roger Falcone, Pamela Ronald, Uros Seljak, and Omar Yaghi, join 100 scientists and engineers from the U.S. and 25 from across the world as new lifelong members and foreign associates.
All new NAS members and foreign associates are nominated by existing NAS members for outstanding contributions to their field. Only 100 or fewer researchers make it through the selection...
If you use a vacuum-insulated thermos to help keep your coffee hot, you may know it’s a good insulator because heat energy has a hard time moving through empty space. Vibrations of atoms or molecules, which carry thermal energy, simply can’t travel if there are no atoms or molecules around.
But a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, shows how the weirdness of quantum mechanics can turn even this basic tenet of classical physics on its head.
Like any material, atomically thin, 2D semiconductors known as TMDs or transition metal dichalcogenides are not perfect, but their imperfections can actually be a good thing.
Understanding how defects are structured at the atomic scale, how they are created, and how they interact with electrons are the first steps to designing new advanced materials. However, no one has been able to link useful properties like optical absorption and emission, conductivity, or catalytic function to specific defects in TMDs.
K. Birgitta Whaley(link is external), a UC Berkeley professor of chemistry and co-director of the Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center, has been appointed to the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the White House announced today (Tuesday, Oct. 22).
Whaley, who is also a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was among seven new advisers, the first PCAST members appointed by President Donald...
Exercepted from an article (link is external)where chemists worldwide tell C&EN what they value about international collaborations, at a time when some scientists might feel uncertain about their future.
In the mid-1970s, Professor of Chemistry, Physics and, Molecular and Cell Biology...
Seven UC Berkeley, faculty scientists with novel ideas and an entrepreneurial spirit have been named to the 2019-20 cohort of Bakar Fellows, an honor that gives the fellows the money and time to translate their laboratory breakthroughs into technologies ready for the marketplace.
The awards foster a culture that led Forbes magazine to rank Berkeley the No. 3 entrepreneurial university in the country several years ago and keeps the campus at the top nationwide in terms of venture capital-funded startups and women-led venture capital-backed startups.
What’s thinner than a human hair but has a depth of special traits? A multitasking graphene device developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The superthin material easily switches from a superconductor that conducts electricity without losing any energy, to an insulator that resists the flow of electric current, and back again to a superconductor – all with a simple flip of a switch. Their findings were reported today in the journal...
