2007 Science Highlight Archive

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12.12.2007 A Macroscopic and Spectroscopic Study on Arsenate Uptake by Calcite
12.05.2007 Spectroscopic Imaging of Heterogeneous Nanomaterials – X-Ray Photoemission Microscopy at the NSLS
12.04.2007 Researchers Discover Surface Orbital "Roughness" in Manganites[ Feature ]
11.28.2007 Tiny DNA Molecules Show Liquid Crystal Phases, Pointing To New Scenario For First Life On Earth[ Feature ]
11.14.2007 LeuT-Desipramine Structure Suggests How Antidepressants Inhibit Human Neurotransmitter Transporters
11.07.2007 Progress in Self-Assembly: High Resolution NEXAFS Study of the Wave-like Growth of Self-Assembling SAM Layers on a Silicon Substrate
10.31.2007 Ferroelectric Distortion in SrTiO3 Thin Films on Si(001) by X-Ray Absorption Near-Edge Spectra: Experiment and First-Principles Calculations
10.17.2007 Magnetic Characterization of CoFeB/MgO and CoFe/MgO Interfaces
10.10.2007 Potent Peptides Inhibit HIV Entry Into Cells[ Feature ]
10.10.2007 MgO/Fe(100) Interface: A Study of the Electronic Structure
10.03.2007 Breaking the Barrier Toward Nanometer X-ray Resolution[ Feature ]
10.03.2007 Thermal Expansion of Iron-Rich Alloys and Implications for the Earth's Core
09.28.2007 New DNA-Based Technique For Assembly of Nano- and Micro-sized Particles[ Feature ]
09.28.2007 Quantitative Characterization of the Morphology of Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Films by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering
09.19.2007 Structural Basis for Cofactor-Independent Dioxygenation in Vancomycin Biosynthesis
09.12.2007 Tiny Tubes and Rods Show Promise as Catalysts, Sunscreen[ Feature ]
09.12.2007 Platonic Solids on the Nanoscale
09.05.2007 A New Sample Substrate for Imaging and Correlating Organic and Trace-Metal Composition in Biological Cells and Tissues
08.22.2007 Wavelength Tunability of Ion-Bombardment-Induced Ripples on Sapphire
08.15.2007 Crystal Structure of the Influenza A Virus Nucleoprotein Reveals Architectural Details of the Viral Ribonucleoprotein Complex
07.25.2007 Researchers Produce Firsts with Bursts of Light[ Feature ]
07.25.2007 Nucleoporin Crystal Structure Suggests Flexible Pore Diameter by Intermolecular Sliding
07.12.2007 Solution-Phase Deposition and Nanopatterning of GeSbSe Phase-Change Materials
07.05.2007 Phase Contrast Made Quantitative With New Detector and Advanced Analysis Techniques
07.02.2007 Illuminating a Second “Kink” in High-Tc Superconductors[ Feature ]
06.20.2007 Revealing Electronic Crystals
06.13.2007 Getting Closer to Fully Coherent Hard X-ray Femtosecond Free Electron Lasers
06.06.2007 Open Structure of Intramembrane Protease GlpG
06.01.2007 Studying Magnetic Interface Ferromagnetism[ Feature ]
05.30.2007 SEMATECH and NIST Collaborate on Chemical Analysis of Advanced Gate Dielectrics
05.16.2007 A Dynamic Zn Site in Helicobacter pylori HypA – A Potential Mechanism for Metal Specific Protein Activity
05.09.2007 Discovery of New Quantum Properties for Electrons Near the Surface of a Semiconductor
05.01.2007 Revealing a Key Intermediate in Green Oxidation Catalysis[ Feature ]
05.02.2007 NSLS Research Links Zinc to Age-Related Macular Degeneration[ Feature ]
04.18.2007 Strain defects and their role in metal-insulator transition in Cr-doped V2O3
04.12.2007 Real-Time X-Ray Studies of Gallium Adsorption and Desorption
04.04.2007 Anomalous Diffraction at Ultra High Energy for Macromolecular Crystallography
04.03.2007 Boosting Speed, Precision of X-ray Fluorescence Microprobes[ Feature ]
03.28.2007 Thickness Dependence of Microstructure in Semiconducting Films of an Oligofluorene Derivative
03.21.2007 Magnetic and Chemical Non-Uniformity in Ga1-xMnxAs as Probed with Neutron and X-Ray Reflectivity
03.21.2007 Quantitative depth profiling of photoacid generator molecules in photoresist materials by near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy
03.14.2007 To the Edge of Melting[ Feature ]
03.14.2007 Crystal Structure of Intramembrane Protease GlpG
03.07.2007 Brookhaven Lab Scientists Discover Gold Clusters Stabilize Platinum Electrocatalysts For Use in Fuel Cells[ Feature ]
02.24.2007 A Loop in Action: The Mechanism of the GDP-mannose Mannosyl Hydrolase
02.21.2007 Diamonds from Outer Space: Geologists Discover Origin of Earth’s Mysterious Black Diamonds[ Feature ]
02.21.2007 Spin Reorientation Transition in Fe-Rich Alloy Films on W(110): The Role of Magnetoelastic Anisotropy and Structural Transition
02.14.2007 Researchers Observe Superradiance in a Free Electron Laser[ Feature ]
02.14.2007 Crystal Structure of the Catalytic Domain of the Hepatitis C Virus NS2-3 Protease
02.07.2007 NSLS Research Could Lead to Faster Memory Chips[ Feature ]
02.07.2007 Absence of Magnetism in HCP Iron-Nickel at 11 K
01.29.2007 Hatching a New Model for Biomineralization[ Feature ]
01.29.2007 Hydrogen-mediated Metal Transport in Complex Metal Hydrides
01.17.2007 Probing the Ordering of Semiconducting Fluorene-Thiophene Copolymer Surfaces on Rubbed Polyimide Substrates by Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure
01.10.2007 Setting the Stage to Find Drugs Against SARS[ Feature ]
01.03.2007 NSLS Researchers Reach for the Stars(dust)[ Feature ]