Science Highlight
Quantification of Heterogeneous Degradation in Li-ion
Batteries – Contacts: Yijin Liu (SSRL), Kejie Zhao (Purdue
University), Feng Lin (Virginia Tech), and Yang Yang (BNL)
The development of better rechargeable batteries for consumer electronics
and electric vehicles is difficult due to the complex interplay of many
chemical, spatial, and temporal factors. Taken together, these factors are
called the chemomechanical interplay, which includes chemical degradation,
chemical heterogeneity, and mechanical stress that cause the battery to lose
functionality over many charging and discharging cycles. A team of researchers
has developed a combined methods approach that allows quantification of
the processes of chemomechanical interplay over diverse length and time
scales. Read more...
Nominations for SSRL Annual Awards
Recognize outstanding achievements of your colleagues, postdocs, students
(or yourself) by submitting nominations for the following awards by the posted
deadlines. Send nomination packages for these awards to Cathy Knotts.
William
E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award –
Deadline to submit nominations extended until July
5: The $1,000 Spicer Young Investigator Award
honors the professional and personal contributions that William E. and Diane M.
Spicer made to our community. Submit nomination packages including a letter
summarizing the scientific contributions of the candidate as well as their CV
and publications (supporting letters also encouraged). Award Site
Melvin
P. Klein Scientific Development Award –
Submit nominations by August 1: This $1,000
award honoring Mel Klein's many contributions recognizes research
accomplishments of undergraduate/graduate students or postdoctoral fellows
within three years of receiving their Ph.D. This award provides peer
recognition and helps to promote dissemination of results based on work
performed at SSRL. The nomination package should include the candidate’s
CV, letters of recommendation from the advisor and colleagues, as well as an
abstract written by the candidate describing the SSRL related experiments,
scientific results, and plans to present the findings. Award Site
Farrel
W. Lytle Award – Submit nominations by
August 5: The $1,000 Lytle Award was established to
promote technical or scientific accomplishments in synchrotron radiation-based
science and to foster collaboration and efficient use of beam time at SSRL.
SSRL users and staff are eligible to be nominated for the Lytle Award. Letters
of nominations should include a summary of the individual's contributions
and why they should be recognized through this award. Supporting letters are
welcome.
These awards will be presented at the SSRL/LCLS Annual
Users’ Meeting, and the recipients of the Klein and Spicer
awards will be asked to present their research during the plenary session of
the Users' Meeting on September 26.
Events
Stanford-SLAC Cryo-EM Center (S2C2) Modeling
Workshop - July 10-12, 2019
This workshop covers the basic principles and practical protocols to obtain
atomic models based on cryo-EM density maps at near atomic resolution. See agenda
Joint SSRL/LCLS Users’ Meeting September 24-27,
2019
Mark your calendar and plan to attend the SSRL/LCLS Annual Users’
Meeting, September 24-27, 2019 which will also include facility updates, a DOE
BES update, invited talks, and several focused workshops including:
- Automated Analysis and Control for X-ray Science Experiments
- Metals in Structural Biology
- Ultrafast Electron Diffraction (UED)
- X-ray Diffraction Opportunities Enabled by SSRL's New BL17-2
(with sessions on Powder Diffraction and Rietveld Refinement)
- Early Science for LCLS-II
- LCLS Science Campaigns - Run 18 Town Hall
- Multi-Scale Biology
- MXAN: Three Dimensional Structures for Metal Sites in Condensed
Phases and in Catalysts
- CryoEM of Macromolecular Machines
- Current and Future Opportunities in Time-Resolved X-ray Science:
Materials and Interface
- Materials Phenomena
- Ultrafast Electron and Molecular Dynamics at
Interfaces
- Recent Advances in the X-ray Spectroscopy of the Actinides
- Development and Challenges in X-ray Spectroscopies and Ultrafast
Dynamics: Experiment and Theory
- Data-Reduction Pipeline for LCLS-II
More details and registration information will be posted to the website soon.
EMSL Integration 2019 – Plants, Soil and Aerosols:
Interactions that tell stories of Ecosystems, Climate and National
Security” October 8-10, 2019 announcement
User Research Administration
Beam Time Requests
- August 1, 2019 – X-ray / VUV (mid-November –
January 2020 scheduling)
- July 1, 2019 – Macromolecular Crystallography (standard) and
Multi-Technique Proposals for SAXS, MC and Cryo-EM
- August 1, 2019 – X-ray / VUV
(See SSRL Proposal & Scheduling Guidelines)
Submit beam time requests and proposals through the User Portal.
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light source producing extremely bright x-rays for basic and applied
research. SSRL attracts and supports scientists from around the world who
use its state-of-the-art capabilities to make discoveries that benefit society.
SSRL, a U.S. DOE Office of Science national user facility, is a Directorate of
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, operated by Stanford University for the
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. The SSRL Structural
Molecular Biology Program is supported by the DOE Office of Biological and
Environmental Research, and by the National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of General Medical Sciences. For more information about SSRL science,
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