Sector 8-ID: Research Highlights and News

2024
New technology at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois transforms scientific discoveries, by John Owens, Localish, WABC-TV. Video includes images of 8-ID team at work commissioning the beamline. 2024.09.03. Ability to track nanoscale flow in soft matter could prove pivotal discovery, by Joseph E. Harmon, Argonne Press Release, 2024.08.08 Scientists pioneer autonomous robotic method for studying liquids suspended in air, by Jared Sagoff, Feature Story, Argonne National Laboratory, 2024.04.10 Polymer Electronics Feel Strain and Evolve during Operation, by Brian Sandalow, Northwestern Engineering News, 2024.02.26 Argonne scientists help scale up nanomaterials for sustainable manufacturing, by Theresa Duque and Andre Salles, Argonne Press Release, 2024.01.29
2023
A 3D View of Mesoscale Interfacial Structures in a Single Glance, by Mark Wolverton, 2023.11.01 Hybrid First Experiments Workshop for Coherent Surface Scattering Imaging (CSSI) Beamline 9ID at the APS, August 1-2, 2023. Registration Deadline July 17, 2023. Hybrid First Experiments Workshop for X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (XPCS) Beamline 8ID at the APS, July 18-19, 2023. Registration deadline: June 27, 2023. A pair of new feature beamlines will benefit from the enhanced brightness and coherence of the new APS X-ray beam to deliver fascinating results, J. Synchr. Rad., 2023.07. Building organic electrochemical transistors in a new direction, APS Science Highlights, 2023.07.19 Tracking solid-like to fluid-like state transitions in colloidal glasses, APS Science Highlights, 2023.06.06 2023 APS/CNM Users Meeting will host APS Workshop 4: "Materials Discovery with Grazing-Incidence X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy," 2023.05.01-02 Team IDs Emergence of Surprising Layers in Nanomaterlal by Scott Schrage, Nebraska Today, 2023.04.28 Molecular Teamwork is Key to Efficient Organic Semiconductors, by Jenna Kurtzeill and Andre Salles, Argonne Press Release, 2023.04.27. Argonne’s Self-Driving Lab Accelerates the Discovery Process for Materials with Multiple Applications, by Joseph Harmon, Argonne Press Release, 2023.04.25. Flipping a Switch in Cooperative Crystals, APS Science Highlights, 2023.04.21 Narayanan Completes Distinguished Leadership Program, APS/User News, 2023.04.13 A Computing Hardware Approach Aspires to Emulate the Brain, by David Kramer, Physics Today, 2023.1. See Argonne Press Release. Probing the Diffusion of Active Viruses, APS Science Highlights, 2023.01.27 Probing the Phase Dynamics of a Complex Oxide, APS Science Highlights, 2023.01.09
2022
Wearable, Flexible Electronics Head List of Argonne Breakthroughs for 2022, by Jared Sagoff, Argonne Feature Story, 2022.12.22 Structuring Liquids with Nanoparticle Assemblies, by Neil Savage, APS Science Highlights, 2022.12.19 Stretchable Organic Transistors for Biomedical Applications, by Phillip Koth, APS Science Highlights, 2022.11.21 Skin-like Electronics Could Monitor Your Health Continuously, by Joseph E. Harmon, Argonne Press Release, 2022.11.16 Grazing-Incidence X-rays Illuminate Solar Cell Film Formation Mechanisms, APS Science Highlights, 2022.10.24 Through Thick and Thin: X-rays Track the Behavior of Soft Materials, by Joan Koka, Argonne Press Release, 2022.10.10 Deconstruction Site: 8-ID Beamlines Ready for Their Upgrades, by Marguerite Huber, APS/User News, 2022.10.03 Solvent Study Solves Solar Cell Durability Puzzle, by Mike Williams, Rice News, 2022.09.19 Relaxing with Soft Materials, APS Science Highlights 2022.07.25 Sliding into place: Study shows how cartilage interacts with the joints in our bodies, by Jake Malooley, APS News, 2022.03.14
2021
Ultrathin Solar Cells Get a Boost, by Mike Williams, Rice University and APS Press Release 2021.11.24. Blue Animals Are DIfferent From From All the Rest, APS/User News 2021.06.22 (Solar) Power to the Perovskites, APS Science Highlights 2021.06.01 Strong and Resilient Synthetic Tendons Produced from Hydrogels, APS Science Highlights 2021.03.16 UCLA Materials Scientists Show Way to Make Durable Artificial Tendons from Improved Hydrogels, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering Press Release 2021.02.25
2020
Perovskite-Based X-ray Detector Named Finalist for "Breakthrough of theYear",Physics World 2020.12.10 Thin-FIlm Perovskite Detectors Slash Imaging Dose, Physics World, 2020.04.16 Battery of Tests: Scientists Figure Out How to Track What Happens inside Batteries, Argonne Press Release 2020.12.03 Slow Flow and Sudden Avalanches Relax Stress in Glasses, APS Science Highlights 2020.12.01 Printing Ultrathin 2-D Polymer Electronics, APS Science Highlights 2020.10.26 Reversible Isomerization Reaction Drives a COF-Based Humidity Sensor, APS Science Highlights 2020.07.29 An X-ray Waveguide Probe into Ultra-thin Nanostructure Films, APS Science Highlights 2020.07.08 True Colors: Using X-rays to Trace the Evolution of Insects’ Structural Colors, Argonne Press Release 2020.05.15 A Novel Organic Dye Nanoassembly Harnesses Light To Drive Chemical Changes APS Science Highlights 2020.04.28 Argonne Scientists Fashion New Class of X-ray Detector APS User News 2020.04.23 Hsinhan (Dave) Tsai Earns the 2020 APSUO Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award, APS User News 2020.03.17 Tsai receives 2020 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award, Argonne Press Release 2020.03.31 DOE Light Sources Form Data Solution Task Force APS User News 2020.02.19
2019
Study: Stress Changes the Normal Aging Process of Metallic Glasses, University of Illinois Press Release Understanding Electron and Ion Transport in Organic Semiconductors Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering 2019.07.18 New Polymer Films Conduct Heat Instead of Trapping It APS Science Highlights 2019.05.03 Jennifer Chu, MIT News 2019.04.29
2018
In Situ Rheology, SAXS, and XPCS for the Study of Soft Matter, Joint APS/CNM Workshop WK 5, Argonne Users Meeting 2018, Organizers: Xiao-Min Lin, Suresh Narayanan and Alec Sandy, 2018.05.08 Through Thick and Thin, Karen Fellner, Argonne Feature Story 2018.04.13 Light relaxes hybrid perovskites, Phil Szuromi, Science 2018.04.06 Light ‘relaxes’ crystal to boost solar cell efficiency, Mike Williams, Rice University Press Release, 2018.04.05 Science Daily, 2018.04.05 R&D News, 2018.04.06 APS Science Highlights, 2018.04.16 Turning Plastic Insulator into Heat Conductor, Tom Austin-Morgan, New Electronics, 2018.04.03 (Y. Xu et al, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar3031 ) Shear Thickening Ordering Behavior is Unraveled, APS Science Highlights 2018.01.24 Unravelling the Mystery of Nanoparticle-Reinforced Polymers APS Science Highlights 2018.01.18 US Scientists Use Additives to Improve Performance of Organic Solar Cells PV Magazine 2018.01.11 Going Organic Argonne Press Release 2018.01.09 New Gel Formation Mechanism Discovered, Louisa Cockbill, AIP Scilight 2018.01
2017
New Insight on Nanoparticle Colloidal Gel Formation CosmeticsDesign 2018.01.04 Gel Formation Revealed APS Science Highlights 2017.12.18 Gel Formation Revealed Nanowerk 2017.12.21 Creeping of Striped Nanodomains in Nominal Atomic Layers of Ferroelectrics APS Science Highlights 2017.12.05 APS Colloquium: ‘X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy: Past, Present and Future’ by Mark Sutton 2017.06.07 APS-U Workshop for the CSSI Beamline, Building 402, Room E1100-E1200, 2017.05.03 APS-U Workshop for the XPCS Beamline, Building 402, Room E1100-E1200, 2017.05.02 The 2017 CAP Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics is Awarded to Mark Sutton, Canadian Association of Physicists Press Release 2017.04.24 Self-Assembling Polymers Provide Thin Nanowire Template Argonne Today 2017.04.11 Block Copolymers Guide Fabrication of Next-Generation Computer Chips Materials Today 2017.04.07 Small Particles Untangle Polymer Chains Physics.aps.org 2017.04.05 A Big Leap Toward Tinier Lines David L. Chandler, MIT News Office 2017.03.27
2016
Flipped Crystals May Aid Solar Cells APS Science Highlight 2016.10.27 Tobin Marks Wins 2017 Priestley Medal Chemical and Engineering News 2016.06.13 A Radar Gun for Unruly Atoms APS Science Highlights 2016.04.01 A Radar Gun for Unruly Atoms University of Vermont University Communications 2016.03.31 Multilayer Block Copolymer Meshes Argonne Today 2016.03.03 Organic Semiconductor-Containing Supramolecules Argonne Today 2016.03.02 Titania Thin Films Argonne Today 2016.02.17 High Performance Solar Cells Argonne Today 2016.02.11 Coherent Acoustic Phonons Argonne Today 2016.02.10 Hairy Nanoparticles Argonne Today 2016.02.09 Dynamics of Nanoparticles Argonne Today 2016.02.08 High-Performance XPCS Data Reduction Using Argonne's Virtualized Computing Resource APS Newsletter 2016.01 New Morphologies in Thin Films Argonne Today 2016.01.14 Nanostructured Block Copolymer Electrolytes Argonne Today 2016.01.11

2015
Perovskite Photovoltaics Argonne Today 2015.12.29 10 Cool Science and Technology Stories from Argonne in 2015 (#6) 2015.12.23 Supramolecular Packing Argonne Today 2015.12.23 Scientists Can Now Make Nanoparticle Sheets that Curl Right Up Gizmodo 2015.08.03 Scientists Curve Nanoparticle Sheets into Complex Forms R & D Magazine 2015.08.03 Bend Me, Shape Me, Anyway You Want Me: Scientists Curve Nanoparticle Sheets into Complex Forms Argonne Press Release 2015.07.31 Macrophase Separation Argonne Today 2015.07.27 Reversible Thermal Stiffening Argonne Today 2015.07.22 Improving Ternary Blend Solar Cells Argonne Today 2015.07.02 Soft Nanoparticles Argonne Today 2015.06.25 Janus-like Nanoparticles Argonne Today 2015.06.19 Nanoscale Asymmetry Leads to Janus-like Nanoparticle Membranes Nanowerk 2015.06.17 Nanoscale Asymmetry Leads to Janus-like Nanoparticle Membranes CNM Press Release 2015.06.16 Bug Colors Argonne Today 2015.06.16 Shrinking Integrated Circuits Argonne Today 2015.05.28 Nanoparticle Assemblies Argonne Today 2015.05.06

2014
Disorder in Certain Polymer Solar Cells APS Science Highlights 2014.11.21 Enhancing Solar Cells APS Science Highlights 2014.10.07

2013
Subramanian Ramakrishnan Soars from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Florida A&M University Division of Research, The Researcher 4, Spring 2013. Turning Up The Power In Organic Solar Cells APS Science 2013 52-53, 2014.07.07 Water-Like Properties of Soft Nanoparticle Suspensions APS Science Highlights 2013.11.25 Organic Polymers Show Sunny Potential APS Science Highlights 2013.06.25 Chemical engineers' research may lead to inexpensive, flexible solar cells Penn State Sustainability Scientists Detect Residue That Has Hindered Efficiency of Promising Type of Solar Cell Argonne Press Release 2013.05.03

2012
Guided Self-Assembly of Gold Thin Films Nanowerk 2012.11.28 Dynamics of Polymer Chains Atop Different Materials APS Science Highlights 2012.09.24 Nano, Photonic Research Gets Boost from New 3-D Visualization Technology Argonne Press Release 2012.08.29 Unlocking the Nanoscale Secrets of Bird-Feather Colors APS Science Highlights 2012.05.18 Peering into the Interfaces of Nanoscale Polymeric Materials APS Science Highlights 2012.01.06

2011
How Atoms Behave: Characteristics of Microstructural Avalanches APS Science Highlights 2011.11.17 Osmosis in Colloidal Suspensions APS Science Highlights 2011.05.10 A New Method for Measuring X-ray Optics Aberrations APS Science Highlights 2011.03.11 Polymer Membranes with Molecular-sized Channels That Assemble Themselves LBNL News Center 2011.01.11

2010
George Srajer and Jin Wang Elected Fellows of the American Physical Society APS News 2010.12.16 Mark Sutton Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada University of Toronto Alumni News 2010.09.22 Butterfly Wing Yields Clues to Light-Altering Structures APS Science Highlights 2010.06.30

2009
Slowing Down Near the Glass Transition APS Science Highlights 2009.03.09 A Kinoform's Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing Brookhaven Today, 2009.08.26 2009 APSUO Compton Award to Grübel, Mochrie, and Sutton APS News 2009.04.29

2008
2008 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award APS News 2008.04.24 Glass Does a Double-Take APS Science Highlights 2008.04.04

2007
X-ray Holograms Expose Secret Magnetism APS Science Highlights 2007.05.11

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