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Parking and Directions

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Parking around campus can be found using Cornell's interactive map; be sure to checkbox the "Metered Parking" and "Pay-by-Cell Parking" options.

Should you have a disability or special transportation needs, please contact useradmin@cornell.edu we will gladly make arrangements.

First self-assembled superconductor structure created

Ulrich Wiesner, the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering, led the group, which included researchers in engineering, chemistry and physics.

The group’s findings are detailed in a paper published in Science Advances, Jan. 29.

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Room-temperature lithium metal battery closer to reality

But these batteries are not in common use today because, when recharged, they spontaneously grow treelike bumps called dendrites on the surface of the negative electrode.

Over many hours of operation, these dendrites grow to span the space between the negative and positive electrode, causing short-circuiting and a potential safety hazard.

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With Spiraling Light, SLAC X-ray Laser Offers New Glimpses of Molecules

A new device at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory allows researchers to explore the properties and dynamics of molecules with circularly polarized, or spiraling, light.

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Best of both worlds: Team proposes novel energy storage model

The technology – based on a covalent organic framework (COF) infused with an electronically conducting polymer thin film – could benefit numerous technologies including automotive, by speeding up the charging process, extending single-charge range and even incorporating the device into the body of the car itself.

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Humanity helper: CHESS-made device rode into space

On April 8, the In-Situ-1 crystallization plate – developed by Robert Thorne, professor of physics, and the company he founded, MiTeGen, LLC – was used in experiments for Eli Lilly onboard the history-making SpaceX CRS 8 mission.

“It was personally exciting to me,” Thorne said, “because the U.S. space program of the 1960s and 1970s was one of the reasons I became a scientist.”

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Nanocrystal self-assembly sheds its secrets

The secret to a long-hidden magic trick behind the self-assembly of nanocrystal structures is starting to be revealed.

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CHESS workshops in June to include annual users meeting

The workshops open with the annual CHESS Users Meeting, June 7-8. This meeting brings together CHESS users, scientists and staff to discuss research taking place at the facility, as well as the ongoing upgrades to both CHESS and the Cornell Electron Storage Ring.

“There are lots of things going on at CHESS, including the upgrade,” said Ernie Fontes, associate director of CHESS, noting that the upgrade projects that visitors will hear about should be complete during the current $100 million National Science Foundation funding award period, which expires in 2019.

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CHESS user awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

He has used X-ray crystallography at CHESS, as well as other resources, to decipher the operation of the Golgi apparatus, the cell's sorting depot. Read the announcement from the Guggenheim Foundation here and a story from the Cornell Chronicle here.

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D. Marian Szebenyi
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Crystallography and solution scattering join forces in the study of antibiotic synthesis

Surprisingly, cells also have a completely alternate means of producing small special-purpose polypeptides which act as antibiotics or various other environmentally-friendly compounds of therapeutic importance. Instead of the ribosome, cells use a very large protein complex called nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) to produce these compounds. Like a molecular assembly line, the different subunits of an NRPS each perform a critical step in the process and, using moving parts, hand off the product to the next domain.

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