Prof Bawendi is an international leader in quantum dot synthesis and characterization, as well as a valued past CHESS user and collaborator. We congratulate his entire team on the well-deserved recognition of their decades of groundbreaking research. We encourage the CHESS user community to take a moment to acknowledge this milestone by revisiting some classic papers from Prof Bawendi, and/or his current and former students and postdocs, which made use of the CHESS facility:

Magneto-Fluorescent Core-Shell Supernanoparticles

Funded with a $5 million grant from the Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program run by the U.S. Department of Defense and $1.8 million from Cornell, the consortium is a collaborative effort led by Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in partnership with the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) and the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR).

Comprising of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), the Summer Engineering and Research for Community College Students (SERCCS) program, the Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM)

Q: Could you tell me a little bit about your initial experience as a community college student in the SERCCS program at CLASSE?

What is the discovery?

August 9, 2023, was the deadline for Proposals – though the User Office does accept proposals after the deadline, users are asked to please get proposals in ASAP for a chance at beam time starting in October. We will continue to accept Rapid Access proposals for the Beamline 7A HP BioSAXS and BioSAXS and Beamline 7B2 HPBio MX & FlexX throughout the upcoming run.

The CHESS Lending Library is a scientific equipment loan program hosted by the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source that provides free hands-on experiment kits for empowering teachers and engaging students in high quality labs. Kits are designed for specific scientific fields such as biology, chemistry, and physics as well as different age groups including elementary, middle, and high school grade levels. Learn more by downloading our 2023 brochure!

Scientists are especially interested in nanotextures that are distributed non-uniformly throughout a thin film because they can give the material novel properties. The most effective way to study the nanotextures is to visualize them directly, a challenge that typically requires complex electron microscopy and does not preserve the sample.