A research team led by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley has engineered bacteria to produce new-to-nature carbon products that could provide a powerful route to sustainable biochemicals. The advance could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing of fuels, drugs, and chemicals.
Two Berkeley Lab scientists have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
After decades of effort, scientists have finally seen the process by which nature creates the oxygen we breathe
Recent research by Lab scientists on black phosphorus (BP) – a material of interest for its electronic properties – reveals a tantalizing capability for light emission at the BP surface. It turns out that extremely thin layers of BP can be stimulated to emit useful quantities of light in specific wavelengths. Their findings emphasize the unique material characteristics of layered materials for novel optoelectronic applications such as light-emitting devices and photodetectors. Potential applications include night vision, gas sensing, and spectroscopy technologies.