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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.

CHESS, a power-house of x-ray and accelerator physics and technology, requires the cultivation of local talent, specific skills, and a highly-trained workforce to build and maintain needed beamline and accelerator components.

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

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.

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.

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.

Congratulations, Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, University of Utah and CHESS User, who has been named one of the 2018 Talented 12 by Chemical & Engineering News.  The nominees for the Talented 12 must be pre-tenure early career chemists "looking to push the boundaries in their fields."

While it is well established that arsenic accumulates in some seafood, the toxicity is dependent upon the specific arsenic species present and their concentration in the edible portion of the shrimp.