2009 SSRL Science Highlights
Approximately 1,000 scientists visit SSRL annually to conduct experiments in broad disciplines including life sciences, materials, environmental science, and accelerator physics. Science highlights featured here and in our monthly newsletter, Headlines, increase the visibility of user science as well as the important contribution of SSRL in facilitating basic and applied scientific research. Many of these scientific highlights have been included in reports to funding agencies and have been picked up by other media. Users are strongly encouraged to contact us when exciting results are about to be published. We can work with users and the SLAC Office of Communication to develop the story and to communicate user research findings to a much broader audience. Visit SSRL Publications for a list of the hundreds of SSRL-related scientific papers published annually and to add your most recent publications to this collection. |
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October 2009
Geometric and Electronic Structures of the Ni(I) and Methyl-Ni(III) Intermediates of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase |
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September 2009
Expanded Intermediate-State Structure of a Bacterial Mechanosensitive Channel |
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September 2009
Lack of a Jahn-Teller Distortion in La1-xSrxCoO3 Determined by EXAFS and Neutron PDF Studies |
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September 2009
The Inhomogeneous Structure of Water at Ambient Conditions |
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August 2009
Understanding Charge Transport in Plastic Electronics |
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August 2009
Riboswitch Crystal Structure May Lead to New Antibiotic Targets |
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July 2009
Structure of Pentacene Monolayers on Amorphous Silicon Oxide and Relation to Charge Transport |
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July 2009
Bimolecular Crystals of Fullerenes in Conjugated Polymers and the Implications of Molecular Mixing for Solar Cells |
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June 2009
The Source of Airborne Lead: Recycling Pb-Contaminated Soils |
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June 2009
Importance of Iron Speciation to Aerosol Solubility: Potential Effects of Aerosol Source on Ocean Photosynthesis |
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June 2009
Marine Diatoms Survive Iron Droughts in the Ocean by Storing Iron in Ferritin |
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May 2009
Potential Implications for Cataract Formation - Redox Changes at the Sulfur Atom of Methionine |
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May 2009
Br-rich Tips of Calcified Crab Claws are Less Hard but More Fracture Resistant: A Comparison of Mineralized and Heavy-element Biological Materials |
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May 2009
Visualizing Brain Metals in Health and Disease |
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April 2009
Structural Studies of Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitor Complexes: An Anchored Plasticity Approach for Selective Enzyme Inhibition |
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April 2009
Structure of P-Glycoprotein Reveals a Molecular Basis for Poly-specific Drug Binding |
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April 2009
An Unusual Mechanism for the Antimicrobial Target Flavine-dependant Thymidylate Synthase (FTDS) |
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March 2009
Experiments Provide First Direct Signatures of a Topological Insulator - a New Phase of Quantum Matter |
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March 2009
Structural and Functional Basis for Broad-spectrum Neutralization of Avian and Human Influenza Viruses |
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February 2009
Localizing Organomercury Uptake and Accumulation in Zebrafish Larvae at the Tissue and Cellular Level |
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January 2009
Ions in the Clutches of Carbon Nanotubes |
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January 2009
The Competition for Iron Impacts the Global Carbon Cycle |
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