Research Highlights 1998-present (view by PI)
2008
08-7 Microreactor
MRI, Alex Pines
08-6 Orenstein
wins American Physical Society Prize
08-5 Nanoscale
Junctions—A Molecular Foundry User Project
08-4 Frechet
Wins 2007 Dickson Prize
08-3 MSD/Foundry
Researchers Recognized by Scientific American and Discover
Magazine
08-2 Nanowires
and Living Cells, Injection of Quantum Dots and Genes Demonstrated,
Carolyn Bertozzi
08-1 Shape
Control of Bimetallic Nanocrystals, Peidong Yang
(pdf slide)
2007
07-13 Ramesh Wins MRS
Turnbull Award for Multi-Ferroics Research
07-12 Molecular
Foundry Goes "Beyond Green"
07-11 Striped
Nanorods,
Paul Alivisatos (pdf
slide)
07-10 Good
Vibrations: Terahertz Radiation Controls Material Properties, Robert
Schoenlein (pdf
slide)
07-9 The
World's Smallest Piston—Light Reversibly Changes the Shape
of Single Molecules, M. Crommie (pdf
slide)
07-8 MSD
Investigator Honored by Venture Capital Firm—Segalman Recognized
for Technological Promise (pdf
slide)
07-7 A
Nanoradio: Carbon Nanotube Device is Smallest Ever Made , Alex
Zettl (pdf slide)
07-6 Deformation
on the Nanoscale—Tiny Imperfect Crystals Are Still Very Strong (pdf
slide), Andrew Minor
07-5 Single
Molecule Thermoelectricity (pdf
slide), Rachel Segalman, Arun Majumdar
07-4 Green is Gold
for the Molecular Foundry—Sustainable Design recognized by
Green Building Council (pdf slide)
07-3 Innovation Awards for
Segalman and Pines (PDF of text and slide)
07-2 Current-Driven
Domain Wall Motion in Nanowires—A Step Toward Magnetic Data
Storage without Rotating Disks, Peter Fischer, CXRO (PDF of
text and slide)
07-1 Superheating,
Supercooling, and Hysteresis in Semiconductor Nanocrystals, Daryl
Chrzan, Joel W. Ager and Eugene E. Haller, (PDF
of text and slide)
2006
06-10 Of
Friction and the DaVinci Code, Miquel Salmeron (PDF
of text and slide)
06-09 Nature Suggests a Promising
Strategy for Lightweight Composites: Scientific American Names Tomsia One
of the Year's Top 50 Technology Leaders for the Discovery, Antoni Tomsia (PDF
of text and slide)
06-08 Scientific Literacy, Miquel Salmeron
06-07 Spin Currrents Encounter
Friction, Joseph Orenstein (PDF of text and
slide)
06-06 All Inorganic Nanocrystal
Solar Cells Fabricated: Absence of Organic Components Lead to Increased
Robustness, A. Paul Alivisatos (PDF of text and slide)
06-05 p-type Indium Nitride Achieved:
Breakthrough in New Solar Cell Material, Wladek Walukiewicz (PDF of text and slide)
06-04 Nanowires
Increase Electron Conduction 100-Fold
in Solar Cell,
Peidong Yang (PDF of text and slide)
06-03 A
Guiding Light at the Nanoscale: Wire and Ribbon Photonics,
Peidong Yang (PDF of
text and ppt
slide)
06-02 "Multi-Band"
Solar Cell Technology Wins R&D 100 Award and is Licensed for Commercial
Applications, Wladyslaw Walukiewicz (ppt
slide and pdf
text)
06-01 Fluid
Flow Visualization in Porous Materials—New Magnetic Resonance
Imaging Technique Developed, Alex Pines (ppt
slide and pdf
text)
2005
05-10 Atomic
Mechanisms of Liquid Metal Spreading, Antoni Tomsia and Eduardo Saiz
(ppt slide and pdf
text)
05-09 A
Golden Molecular Ruler, Coupled Nanoparticles for Nanoscale Distance
Measurements, A.
Paul Alivisatos (ppt
slide, and pdf
text)
05-08 Ultrafast
Phase Transitions, Shedding
Light on the Unique Properties of “Correlated” Materials, Robert
Schoenlein (ppt slide,
and pdf
text)
05-07 Electron
Microscopy of Stardust, New Light Shed on a 40-Year-Old Mystery,
Nigel Browning (ppt
slide, and pdf
text)
05-06 Brownian
Motion Observed in Metals, Ulrich Dahmen, (ppt
slide and pdf text)
05-05 Lab
Scientist Interviewed on Hispanic Public Radio Camino
al Futuro (Road to the Future), Miquel Salmeron,
(ppt
slide and pdf
text)
05-04 Atomic-Scale
Studies of Ceramic Grain Boundaries: LBNL and ORNL—Key
Insights into Mechanical Properties Obtained, Robert
O. Ritchie, (ppt
slide and pdf text)
05-03 Isotopically
Controlled Silicon Single Crystals—Multinational
Teams Determine Bandgap in Ultrapure Crystals, Eugene
E. Haller, Joel W. Ager, (ppt
slide and pdf
text)
05-02 Sea-Salt
Aerosol Surfaces—New Synchrotron Spectroscopy
Technique Probes Solution Dynamics, Miquel
Salmeron, (ppt
slide and pdf
text)
05-01 Sub-15
nm Spatial Resolution Soft X-ray Microscopy
A New Tool for Nanoscience,
Alex Liddle, Erik Anderson (ppt
slide and pdf
text)
2004
04-12 Nanocrystals
Show a Quick Route to Change–Cation Exchange is Rapid and
Reversible A.
Paul Alivisatos (ppt
slide and pdf text)
04-11 Why Human Bone is More
Prone to Fracture with Age–DOE-Supported Research Provides New Mechanistic
Insights into Bone Aging, Robert O. Ritchie (ppt
slide and pdf text)
04-10 Hollow Nanocrystals
Synthesized Catalytic Properties Measured in Nanoscale Reactors,
Paul Alivisatos (ppt
slide and pdf text)
04-9 Shedding
Light on High Tc Superconductivity Atomic Vibrations Shown to be Involved
Alessandra Lanzara (ppt
slide and pdf text)
04-8
New
Light on How Metals Change Shape at the Nanoscale New Deformation Mechanism
Discovered Eric
Stach (ppt
slide and pdf text)
04-7 A Guiding Light at
the Nanoscale Nanoribbons Used to Steer Light, Peidong
Yang (ppt slide
and pdf text)
04-6 Laboratory Research
Spawns Commercial Successes Start-ups Based on MSD Technology Valued at
$1.5 Billion; Creating 400 Jobs
04-5 Carbon Nanotubes as Nanoscale
Mass Conveyors–Atom Transport at the Nanoscale,
Alex Zettl (ppt slide
and pdf text)
04-4 Single Molecule Doping–Buckyballs
Properties Change as Single K Atoms Adhere, Michael
F. Crommie (ppt
slide and pdf text)
04-3 Watching
Quasiparticles Move–Exploring the Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Superconductors,
Joseph Orenstein (ppt slide
and pdf text)
04-2 New Type of Thin Film Texture Observed–Electron Microscopy Confirms Unique Plane Alignment, Eric Stach (ppt slide and pdf text)
04-1
Multi-Band Semiconductors
Synthesized for High Efficiency Solar Cells–Theory Suggests that
Conversion Efficiencies Surpassing 50% Are Possible, Wladyslaw Walukiewicz
and Kin Man Yu (ppt slide
and pdf text)
2003
Alex Zettl's "First
Synthetic Nano Motor"
03-12 Berkeley
Lab Nanotechnology Commercialized
A.
Paul Alivisatos (ppt slide
and pdf text)
03-11
Micromechanical Studies of
Human Bone Basic DOE-Supported Research Applied to Studies of Bone Damage
from Aging, Injury and Disease Robert
O. Ritchie (ppt
slide and pdf text)
03-10 Molecular
Foundry Brings Nano*High to 175 Local Students
03-9
Nanocrystal Solar
Cells: New Shapes and Opportunities Tetrapods for Higher Efficiency Solar
Cells and License Announcement
A. Paul Alivisatos (ppt
slide and pdf text)
03-8
C60 in Boron
Nitride Tubes Forms an Insulated Nanowire, Alex Zettl (ppt
slide and pdf
text)
03-7 First Synthetic
Nanomotor, Alex Zettl (ppt
slide and pdf text)
03-6 Seeing All the Excitons:
New Insights in the Metal-Insulator Transition Daniel
S. Chemla (ppt slide and pdf
text)
03-05
Si/SiGe Superlattices and GaN Nanotubes
Fabricated, Peidong
Yang (ppt slide and pdf
text)
03-04
Catalyst Active Sites
Imaged in Real Time: Three Empty Pd Sites Break H2 Molecules, Two Don’t. Miquel
Salmeron (ppt
slide and pdf text)
03-03 Non-Linear Spectroscopy of Chiral Molecules Achieved: Optically Active Sum Frequency Generation Demonstrated, Yuen Ron Shen (ppt slide and pdf text)
03-02 Origin of Fatigue in Polycrystalline Silicon Determined: New Insight Could Prevent Premature Failure of Micromechanical Systems, R.O. Ritchie (ppt slide and pdf text)
03-01 Magnetism at the Atomic Scale, Interactions of Single Atoms and Pairs of Atoms Studied, Michael Crommie and Steven G. Louie (ppt slide, and pdf text)
2002
02-12
Secrets of a New Superconductor, Magnesium
Diboride, Revealed, Steven
Louie, Marvin Cohen
(ppt slide, and pdf
text)
02-11 Monolithic
Polymers Improve Microfluidic Chips--Faster and More Sensitive Detection
Achieved,
Jean
Fréchet and Frantisek
Svec (ppt slide and pdf
text)
02-10 Organized Excitons--Macroscopically Ordered Electronic State Observed, Leonid Butov and Daniel Chemla (ppt slide and pdf text)
02-9 Toughness-Inducing
Additive Atoms Localized, Robert O. Ritchie and Christian F. Kisielowski
(ppt slide and pdf
text)
02-8 Full Solar
Spectrum Photovoltaic Materials Identified, Wladyslaw Walukiewicz (ppt
slide and pdf text)
02-7 New Type of Crystalline "Defect" Discovered--"Chevron" Structure Found at Metal Grain Boundaries, Ulrich Dahmen (ppt slide and pdf text)
02-06 STM
Movies: Water in Motion--Atomic Scale Dynamics and Clustering Revealed,
Miquel
Salmeron (ppt slide
and pdf text)
02-05 Ice is Wet--Water
Shown to Cover its Surface, Miquel Salmeron (ppt
slide and pdf text)
02-04 Electron Holography of Field-Emitting Carbon Nanotubes, Alex Zettl (ppt slide and pdf text)
02-3 Micro Tesla Magnetic Resonance, Alex Pines and John Clarke (ppt slide and pdf text)
02-2 Frustrated Superconductors Get Disorderly--Nanoscale Imaging Depicts Granular Nature of Superconductivity, J.C. Seamus Davis (ppt slide and pdf text)
02-1 Nanocrystal Shape Control Boosts Efficiency of New Solar Cells, Paul Alivisatos (ppt slide and pdf text)
2001
01-12 Real-Time, Nanoscale Failure Analysis Achieved, Eric Stach and J.W. Morris, Jr. (PDF of text and figure)
01-11 Soft X-Ray Resonant Scattering Resolves Nanoscale Magnetic and Chemical Heterogeneity, Jeffrey Kortright (PDF of text and figure)
01-10 Behavior of Liquid Metals on Ceramic Surfaces Explained, Eduardo Saiz, Antoni Tomsia, Rowland Cannon (PDF of text and figure)
01-9 An Approach to High Resolution Ex-Situ NMR, Alex Pines (PDF of text and figure)
01-8 World's Smallest Ultraviolet Nanolasers Developed, Peidong Yang, Eicke Weber, Richard Russo (PDF of text and figure)
01-7 Selective, Active Catalytic Nanoparticle Arrays Fabricated, Gabor Somorjai and Eric Anderson (PDF of text and figure)
01-6 Surface Specific Spectroscopy of Polymers Developed—Structure of Polymer Chains Observed , Gabor Somorjai, Y. Ron Shen (PDF of text and figure)
01-5 Properties of Nanotube Junctions Calculated, Steven Louie (PDF of text and figure)
01-4 New, Ultrasensitive, SQUID-Based Magnetic Sensor Developed, John Clarke, Mark Alper (PDF of text and figure)
01-3: New Strong, Tough, and Creep-Resistant Ceramic Developed—Control of Nanoscale Grain Boundary Properties Key to Achieving Improvements, Lutgard DeJonghe, Robert O. Ritchie (PDF of text and figure)
01-2: New Non-Destructive Testing Tool for Steels Developed SQUID Microscopy Used to Detect Plastic Deformation J.W. Morris, Jr., John Clarke (PDF of text and figure)
01-1: First Single Molecule, C60 Nanotransistor Fabricated— "Bouncing Ball" Oscillations Observed, Coupling Electrical and Mechanical Motion Paul McEuen and Paul Alivisatos (PDF of text and figure)
2000