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Using two-color valence-to-core x-ray emission spectroscopy, researchers from Penn State and CHESS uncover new details about enzyme mechanism.

Grace King, a rising Junior, majoring in Physics at Vassar College and studying Engineering at Dartmouth College, participated in the REU program at Cornell this summer, and her research project is quite timely, as CHESS and CESR are currently undergoing their biggest upgrade in decades.

The construction portion of the CHESS-U upgrade is nearing completion as teams work to assemble the last of the experimental hutches. While there is still plenty of work to be done, the preparation for becoming a true 3rd-generation lightsource is paying off.  

Singlet fission is a form of unconventional energy conversion that multiplies excitations. It can be used to harvest spectrally broad light, such as the sun, more efficiently. The incorporation of this process into optoelectronic devices, such as solar cells, would significantly boost efficiencies and reduce cost.

"A team of CHESS scientists cracked the problem for one of technologically important types of materials, chemically vapor-deposited (CVD) diamond crystals."

Granular materials are everywhere: they are underfoot in soils, sands, and snow and are also processed to create numerous food products, pharmaceuticals, and manufactured goods in our everyday lives.

Additive manufacturing or ‘3-D Printing’ of metallic alloys promises to revolutionize manufacturing with its ability to eliminate waste, enable the production of parts with complex shapes previously not possible, allow replacement parts to be built in remote environments (e.g. at sea or in space), and reduce the costs of creating replacement parts for legacy equipment.

Congratulations Cathy Royer, Chaired Constellation Professor in Biocomputation and Bioinformatics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and CHESS User who has been elected President-elect of the Biophysical Society.