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Redox ready

The metal organic framework, Cu-BTC, is redox capable, and its ratio of Cu2+ to Cu+ can be controlled via atmosphere and temperature conditions. This new finding by an EMSL research team will open doors for gas storage and catalysis applications.


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Annotating Plague

Strains of bacteria from the genus Yersinia are pathogenic with a wide virulence range. To better understand and potentially design ways to mitigate the effects of Yersinia on human health, EMSL users leveraged proteome and transcriptome data to refine the genome maps of three Yersinia strains.
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Angling for Answers

EMSL staff and users from the Chinese Academy of Sciences analyzed polarization-dependent SFG vibrational spectra of the monovalent -CN groups buried in the C18CN (organic cyanide) insoluble Langmuir monolayer at the air-water interface.
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Not Fade Away

Generating longer-life lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries could be part of the remedy for overdependence on fossil fuels, affecting everything from vehicles to manufacturing. Using EMSL's in situ TEM capabilities, scientists are edging closer to pinpointing the atomic-level changes that lead to anode failure in Li-ion batteries.
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Water, Sun, Energy

EMSL users created a novel method to produce a highly reactive, OH-rich TiO2 surface and characterized it at the atomic level. Their work, featured on the cover of the March 7, 2012 issue of PCCP, puts us one step closer to using H2O and TiO2 to make energy-rich hydrogen.
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Shedding Light on Photosynthesis

EMSL users measured dynamic changes within Cyanothece when it performed photosynthesis, using a metabolic labeling approach that goes a step beyond static, traditional proteomics studies and provides greater insight into how proteins are expressed as a function of time.
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Sticking Around

Airborne particles impact human health, cause haze, and influence climate. New findings reported by an EMSL user team in PNAS may explain why the abundance of secondary organic aerosols, which make up more than half of the mass of airborne particles, has been significantly underestimated by currently accepted air quality and climate models.
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Attention to Detail

Femtosecond time resolution and sub-wavenumber spectral resolution are now available in EMSL's unique, in-house designed and custom-built high-resolution broadband sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy capability. Ideal for characterizing surfaces and interfaces, details about HR-BB-SFG-VS are reported in the December issue of JCP.
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The William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy national scientific user facility at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory