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Berkeley Lab’s battery team looks beyond vehicles to electric grid

Berkeley Lab’s battery team

Berkeley Lab, known for having one of the top research programs in the country for batteries and fuel cells for vehicle applications, is entering another area in the battery world. The Lab has been granted $1.6 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to develop a novel storage device for the electric grid.  » 

Graphene under strain creates gigantic pseudo-magnetic fields

A team of researchers headed by Berkeley Lab’s Michael Crommie reports the creation of pseudo-magnetic fields far stronger than the strongest magnetic fields ever sustained in a laboratory—just by putting the right kind of strain onto a patch of graphene. The discovery sheds new light on fundamental scientific discoveries going back over a century. » 

DOE awards $122 million for study of artificial photosynthesis

DOE has awarded up to $122 million over five years to a multi-institutional partnership headed by Cal Tech and Berkeley Lab to establish an Energy Innovation Hub aimed at developing revolutionary methods to generate fuels directly from sunlight. The new energy hub will be called the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis.  » 

In Memoriam: Gerson Goldhaber, renowned physicist

Gerson Goldhaber, an award-winning physicist with Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, who played key roles in discoveries that spanned more than five decades, passed away July 19 at the age of 86. Goldhaber was renowned for his experimental contributions to such seminal breakthroughs as the antiproton and the J/psi subatomic particles, and the mysterious dark energy that accelerates the expansion of the universe. He was also an accomplished artist who illustrated two books of poems written by his wife, Judith.  » 

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Lab Gets Its Own Entrepreneur in Residence

Entrepreneur in ResidenceScience can be a long, slow haul. The road to discovery is often filled with endless experiments, much trial and error and, sometimes, a very lucky break. Contrast that with venture capitalism—a whirlwind of activity, marked with a rush to get a product to market and turn a profit. Can the two work together? An innovative new program at the Lab is proving they can, very well. Since late last year Jim Matheson has been Berkeley Lab’s “entrepreneur in residence” working to “add some commercialization impulse to the Lab,” as he puts it.  » 

 
 
 

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