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Chemistry & Catalysis
Everything we do and everything we see around us has chemistry at its core – from the way living things function to the fuels that give us light, heat and mobility and the consumer goods that make life comfortable.
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Materials Sciences
Our Materials Science programs provide a comprehensive set of tools and methodologies to shrink the gap between computational and experimental materials discovery with a focus on the function of new materials.
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Structural Biology
The goal of our structural molecular biology division is understanding biological structure and function, and applying this knowledge to address a wide range of problems within a large, worldwide multidisciplinary effort.
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Enabling COVID-19 Research
In light of the rapidly changing situation world-wide resulting from the COVID-19 virus, the Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences light and neutron sources want to ensure they are doing everything possible to enable research into this virus.
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Biological Sciences
The Biosciences Division builds on our unique strengths in X-ray based research to explore biological function on multiple scales, from individual genes, proteins and enzymes to molecular ecosystems.
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Cryo-Electron Microscopy
The Cryo-EM facility provides access to state-of-the-art instruments for data collection towards atomic resolution structure determination of biochemically purified single particles.
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Nano-X
Nano-X houses an advanced electron beam lithography tool and associated processing and metrology equipment. The toolset is aimed towards providing rapid nano-prototyping capabilities.