X-ray technique offers new view inside active batteries
Despite the everyday prevalence of batteries, scientists still have many questions about the chemistry happening inside them. Common techniques to study batteries help to detail the structural phases of materials or the charge state of individual ions, but fail to show the relationship of both as the battery is operating.
CHESS Town Hall
CHESS is hosting a Virtual User Town Hall.
Please join us to learn about CHESS and how we will operate during the Fall run cycle - starting September 25, 2024.
Come to learn more about CHESS, get updates on what’s new around the lab, and, most importantly, ask questions of CHESS staff and leadership!
AI powers autonomous materials discovery
When a master chef develops a new cake recipe, she doesn’t try every conceivable combination of ingredients to see which one works best. The chef uses prior baking knowledge and basic principles to more efficiently search for that winning formula.
Materials scientists use a similar method in searching for novel materials with unique properties in fields such as renewable energy and microelectronics. And a new artificial intelligence tool developed by Cornell researchers promises to rapidly explore and identify what it takes to “whip up” new materials.
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The next run starts January 26th, and all CHESS beamlines will be operating. Whether experiments will be done in-person or will have to be remote is yet to be seen.
BioSAXS helps to explain the anti-cancer activity of green tea
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Internship enhances diverse skillset for SUNY Delhi Mechatronics interns
Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary field of engineering, incorporating controlled electronics, mechanical, and computer systems; all to adapt to the ever-evolving and intricate systems of everything in industry; from food processing and car-manufacturing, to sustainability and space exploration. CHESS requires a multidisciplinary team of engineers, technicians, programmers and scientists, and is a perfect case-study for the diverse coursework of the program offered at SUNY Delhi.
CHESS user Aeriel Murphy-Leonard shares #LightSourceSelfie
In her video, CHESS user Aerie
Wild blue wonder: X-ray beam explores food color protein
In food products, the natural blues tend to be moody.
A fun food colorant with a scientific name – phycocyanin – provides a vivid blue pigment that food companies crave, but it can be unstable when placed in soft drinks and sport beverages, and then lose its hues under fluorescent light on grocery shelves.
High Pressure Structural Biology and Extreme Biophysics Workshop
At the present time we are planning to hold this NSF-funded workshop in person at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Attendees may apply for travel and lodging support. Click for more info.