Indeed, students from the Applied Learning Experiences photography class at Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) took hundreds of pictures during their visit to CHESS during the month of October. “It is a visually fascinating place,” said Harry Littell, Associate Professor and Chair of Photography at TC3, “And fun to try to imagine the physics taking place amidst the spaghetti of wires and equipment. I like seeing the precision machinery augmented with tinfoil and duct tape."

At a later stage, 3-nucleotide RNA sequences are translated into protein according to the genetic code.

The work was done at CHESS and APS by JIANQIU GUO ,YU YANG, BALAJI RAGHOTHAMACHAR, MICHAEL DUDLEY from SUNY Stony Brook and by CHESS Staff Scientist STAN STOUPIN (before he moved to CHESS).

Bunches of particles circulate around the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) at nearly the speed of light. Each one centimeter-long bunch consists of some billions of particles. In a blink of an eye the bunch of particles has traveled around the 768m circumference ring nearly 1,000,000 times.

The particles in the bunch emit photons as they speed around the ring. The photon emission heats up the particles in the bunch, where the hot particles expand and spread out. An otherwise bright beam is made dimmer, compromising its effectiveness as a tool for research.

These nanoparticles can find immediate applications in active and living systems for various purposes, such as self-propelled activity, environmental sensor, drug delivery and so on. Unlike chemistry-based techniques which take hours, this newly launched mechanical fabrication approach takes only several minutes at current stage. This breakthrough result has been reported at the early on-line release on 8 June 2017 at the Journal of the American Chemical Society [1].