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Real-time observation of nanowire lithiation for energy storage
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) can store energy from alternative intermittent sources via chemical reactions, for later use in electronics, transportation, and grid load leveling.
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The Terra Science and Education Foundation recently awarded Xraise and the Ithaca City School District with their 2015 grant for Best Practices in Urban STEM Education for the project "The E in STEM: Making Engineering Evident in Elementary Schools."
First-ever epitaxial bismuth platinum pyrochlore thin-films grown at CHESS
Araceli Gutiérrez-Llorente, a visiting scientist from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain, and a team of researchers from the energy materials center at Cornell (emc2) and CHESS, have produced the first-ever epitaxial Bi2Pt2O7 thin-films.
In search of the dead zone: using fish to monitor low oxygen marine environments
Longtime CHESS user Karin E. Limburg has been bringing challenging problems in marine biology to CHESS for many years.
Elementary schoolers stretch their minds at CHESS
Last fall, 4th and 5th graders at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School stretched their minds with engineering and design, finishing each academic week with a high-engagement science experience offered by Xraise Cornell, the K-12 outreach team for CLASSE.
Novel video beam position monitor for canted undulators at CHESS
X-ray beam position monitors are used on all X-ray beam lines at CHESS for beam stabilization, characterization and diagnostics. The most commonly used beam position monitors at light sources today are the photo-electron (P.E.) monitors.
New 'knobs' can dial in control of materials
Designing or exploring new materials is all about controlling their properties. In a new study, Cornell scientists offer insight on how different “knobs” can change material properties in ways that were previously unexplored or misunderstood.
CHESS user Stebner awarded NSF Career Award
CHESS is pleased to congratulate one of our new principal investigators for 2014, Professor Aaron Stebner from the Colorado School of Mines, for being the recent recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career award to study anisotropy and asymmetry of shape memory alloys and stainless steels using far field X-ray diffraction.