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Hopping Made Easy: Controlling Electronic Transport in CoₓMn₃₋ₓO₄ Nanoparticles
"This work forms the starting point to understanding the mechanisms of charge transport in ternary spinel systems."
Diamonds are for focusing and monochromatizing: Chemically vapor deposited diamond crystal as medium resolution X-ray monochromator
"Using CVD diamonds in X-ray monochromators enables affordable compact systems operable in a laboratory with conventional X-ray sources, under extreme conditions as high radiation heat load optics at synchrotrons, or, possibly, as compact remote X-ray instrumentation for planetary missions."
2019 CHESS Users' Meeting and Workshops
"The CHESS Users’ Meeting attracted a record number of 225 registered participants to the Cornell campus to look back at major milestones of the project and to discuss X-ray science enabled by the ambitious upgrade."
Slip but not fail: New Insights into Microstructural Deformation Mechanisms in Al-Li Alloys
"These new X-ray data are creating a path forward for the development of new microstructurally sensitive failure criteria."
$54M for CHEXS, A New High-Energy X-ray Facility
The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell University on Thursday $54 million to create CHEXS, The Center for High Energy X-ray Sciences. CHEXS will be a sub-facility of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, more commonly known as CHESS.
Less is more: Disorder raises the critical temperature of a cuprate superconductor
"Developing materials that exhibit superconductivity at room temperature for wide spread commercial use would allow a significant reduction in energy consumption throughout the power grid."
Conformational Gymnastics Necessary for Ribonucleotide Reductase Activity
"By understanding how an essential enzyme is inactivated in an organism-specific manner, the researchers hope to contribute to the development of new anti-pathogenetic therapies."
2019 Summer students at CHESS
As we reach the height of the summer, a group of students have been pursuing their own academic inquiries.