Los Alamos Daily Post (12/30/18)
Through its technology transfer efforts, Los Alamos National Laboratory can implement user facility agreements that allow its partners and other entities to conduct research at many of its unique facilities. In 2017, LANL hosted more than 1500 users at CINT, LANSCE, and NHMFL. Users came from across the DOE complex, from national and international academia, and from industrial companies across the United States.
University at Buffalo News Center (12/19/18)
University at Buffalo scientist Quanxi Jia, a world-renowned expert in materials science and technology and former director of CINT, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for demonstrating a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.
MIT News (12/18/18)
Materials World (01/31/19)
A collaboration between MIT, CINT, and Sandia National Labs has resulted in a new laser-based system that can be used to observe changes to the physical properties of materials in high-radiation environments without destroying or altering them. Knowing the condition of materials inside nuclear plants can be critical to understanding whether their operation can be safely extended, and if so by how much.
Sandia Labs News Release (10/24/18)
San Francisco Chronicle (10/24/18)
Washington Times (10/25/18)
Albuquerque Journal (12/10/18)
The Department of Energy has awarded Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories $8 million for quantum research — the study of the fundamental physics of all matter — at CINT. The award will fund two three-year projects enabling scientists at the two labs to build advanced tools for nanotechnology research and development. Because of the collaborative nature of CINT, the awards also will provide opportunities for researchers outside the labs to benefit from the new technologies.
Albuquerque Journal (10/21/18)
CINT postdoc Stacy Copp was recently awarded a L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship. It was the guidance of professors and mentoring from older students, Copp said, that helped usher her into her current career as a research scientist. The 29 year old Albuquerque native and La Cueva High graduate now tries to do the same for students in her field.
CINT scientist Sergei Tretiak was honored as a LANL Laboratory Fellow. "To be named a Fellow is one of the Laboratory’s highest honors," said Terry C. Wallace, Jr., Los Alamos National Laboratory director. The overarching theme of Sergei's research is to develop a theoretical framework for electronic properties in complex molecular structures. These materials are at the center of current scientific research, with potential applications in photonics, displays, and sunlight harvesting, such as photovoltaic devices based on organic and organic–inorganic active materials.
Sandia LabNews (10/11/18)
Nobel laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart gave the plenary address that headlined CINT's annual meeting, which took place Sept. 24-25 in Santa Fe. This year’s conference highlighted research performed by the CINT user community in the areas of quantum materials, nano-mechanics and imaging. Several talks in the quantum materials symposium focused on advances in topological materials — a class of materials shown to have unusual properties such as the ability to be a conductor at their surface but an insulator everywhere else.
CINT scientist Jennifer Hollingsworth honored with APS fellowshipJennifer Hollingsworth was selected as a 2018 APS Fellow. The APS Fellowship Program recognizes members who have made significant advances in physics through original research and publications, or made significant contributions in the applications of physics to science and technology. Jen was cited for the discovery and development of non-blinking giant quantum dots, spanning pioneering contributions to materials chemistry, the photophysics of excited-state processes in nanomaterials, and applications in optoelectronics.
Sandia Labs News Release (10/11/18)
Sandia National Labs has named Mercedes Taylor as one of its first Jill Hruby Fellows. The honorees have each been awarded a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in technical leadership, comprising national security-relevant research with an executive mentor. The Jill Hruby Fellowship is meant to encourage women to consider leadership in national security science and engineering. Over the next three years, Mercedes' research will aim to develop new porous plastics that purify water by soaking up ions — electrically charged atoms and molecules — with an emphasis on negatively charged ions, called anions. She will work under the mentorship of CINT scientist Dale Huber.
L'Oréal Press Release (09/25/18)
L’Oréal USA has announced the recipients of the 2018 For Women in Science Fellowship, which annually awards five female postdoctoral scientists grants of $60,000 each to advance their research. One of this year's recipients is CINT postdoc Stacy Copp, whose research in soft matter physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory focuses on developing new materials that produce and manipulate light, with potential applications in biomedical diagnostics, solar energy, and energy-efficient lighting.
Sandia Lab News (09/14/18)
CINT welcomes a new postdoc, Thomas O’Connor, who has been awarded Sandia’s prestigious Truman Fellowship. Candidates for this fellowship must propose bold, cutting-edge research and must earn the endorsement of a selection committee of senior scientists, their future peers, and Sandia’s Chief Research Officer. His research is focused on using molecular and continuum simulations to model the flow of polymers during additive manufacturing. Thomas will work with CINT scientists Mark Stevens, Gary Grest, and Ryan Wixom.
LANL Science Brief (09/06/18)
CINT researchers and their collaborators have found a new way to control quantum-light emitters using so-called zigzag nanotube structures. Their work is published in the latest edition of Nature Chemistry. Stephen Doorn said, "Our effort at LANL has been advancing the development of chemically controlled defects in carbon nanotubes as room-temperature single photon emitters. These are of significant interest for enabling new optical approaches to quantum information processing. Our latest work aims to address how to control and narrow the emission wavelength range through control of functionalization chemistry."
BES Science Highlight (09/05/18)
CINT scientists and their collaborators have uncovered a way to control terahertz radiation using tiny engineered particles in a magnetic field. By controlling the strength and direction of the applied magnetic field, the nanoparticles dynamically tuned a terahertz beam’s phase and amplitude. This research potentially opens the doors for better medical and environmental sensors.
BES Science Highlight (09/05/18)
CINT scientists have identified how modified carbon nanotubes emit photon pairs. The experiments and theory show that the photon pairs are the result of the capture and recombination of two excitons (electron–hole pairs). This efficient generation of photon pairs from modified carbon nanotubes shows a path to new types of light sources.
Sandia Labs News Release (08/03/18)
Each year in the U.S., at least 23,000 people die from infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. One way bacteria develop resistance to many different antibiotics is by producing pumps that spit out unfamiliar small molecules, such as antibiotics, before they can do any damage. The researchers teased out the details of how one antibiotic pump works. This project made extensive use of Sandia’s high-performance computing resources and was conducted at CINT.
Sandia Labs News Release (08/01/18)
Using an artful combination of nanotechnology and basic chemistry, Sandia National Laboratories researchers, including CINT affiliate scientist Hongyou Fan, have encouraged gold nanoparticles to self-assemble into unusually large supercrystals that could significantly improve the detection sensitivity for chemicals in explosives or drugs.
LANL News Release (07/24/18)
CINT scientist Nan Li and CINT affiliate scientist Yongqiang Wang are part of the LANL team that was recently awarded EFRC funding. The new center, called FUTURE (Fundamental Understanding of Transport Under Reactor Extremes), will explore the coupling of radiation damage and corrosion in order to predict irradiation-assisted corrosion in passivating and non-passivating environments for materials in nuclear energy systems.
LANL Community Connections (08/01/18)
LANL News Release (07/24/18)
CINT postdoc Yuxiang Chen was recognized for his outstanding presentation at the 2018 DisrupTech, an event that showcases technologies with the potential to “disrupt” existing markets or even to create new ones. Yuxiang won the “Most Fundable Technology” award for his presentation “NanoCluster Beacons: Fast Testing for Food Safety.” The $25,000 funding award will help him improve his technology that quickly and accurately tests pathogens in food.
LANL Science Brief (07/17/18)
Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites are materials with attractive optoelectronic properties including exceptional solar cell performance. In this latest research published in Nature Communications, CINT scientist Sergei Tretiak and collaborators show that polaron formation via nuclear dynamics in perovskite may be important for efficient charge separation and collection.
LANL Science Brief (07/03/18)
In a new theoretical study described in a Nature Communications paper, CINT scientist Sergei Tretiak and collaborators demonstrate the appearance of coherent electron-vibrational dynamics after so-called non-radiative relaxation. The effect appears as a ‘sloshing’ of electron density back and forth between molecular sites.
Sandia Labs News Release (06/28/18)
Research by CINT scientists Igal Brener and John Reno and their collaborators shows how a metamaterial made up of an array of nanocylinders mixes two laser pulses of near infrared light to produce 11 waves of light. The light ranges in color from the near infrared, through the colors of the rainbow, to ultraviolet. This work was published in Nature Communications. Igal says, "Without CINT's specialized femtosecond laser system, it would have been very challenging to perform these measurements."
LANL News Release (06/18/18)
Researchers at CINT and partners in France and Germany are exploring the enhanced potential of carbon nanotubes as single-photon emitters for quantum information processing. In describing their work published in Nature Materials, CINT scientist Steve Doorn says, "In addition to defining the state of the art, we wanted to highlight where the challenges are for future progress and lay out some of what may be the most promising future directions for moving forward in this area. Ultimately, we hope to draw more researchers into this field."
BES Science Highlight (06/18/18)
Quantum computers could tackle problems that current supercomputers can’t. Quantum computers rely on quantum bits, or "qubits," which represent data by the binary state of electron spins. Two systems existed to create qubits—donor atoms and quantum dots. CINT researchers and collaborators have successfully integrated the systems. This hybrid approach, which has remained elusive until now, exploits the advantages of the two qubit systems.
Saudi Aramco News (06/13/18)
Corrosion is a global problem that costs the world $2.5 trillion annually. This chemical process is most often seen on metal surfaces as rust and can result in catastrophic failure of infrastructure, such as bridges. Researchers at the Aramco Research Center-Boston have teamed up with scientists at CINT to investigate the nanoscale mechanisms responsible for corrosion initiation and progression in steel.
Sandia Labs News Release (06/11/18)
CINT scientist Brad Boyce is part of a research team at Sandia National Labs that has built a robotic cell for testing 3D-printed parts. They system conducts high-throughput testing to quickly determine the performance and properties of the parts. Brad hopes to use it for rapid materials discovery and for foundational advances in alloy performance and reliability.
Los Alamos Monitor (05/07/18) Technologist Paul Dowden oversees all pulsed laser deposition operations at CINT's Gateway Facility. This versatile system allows researchers to grow thin films ranging from tens of nanometers to micrometers in thickness. It is ultra-customizable, using multiple targets, different gases, unique wavelengths, specific configurations and offering a variety of laser parameters.
Sandia Labs News Release (04/30/18)
CINT scientist Dale Huber has been working on the challenge of making iron-based nanoparticles the exact same size for 15 years. Now, he and his long-term collaborators at Imagion Biosystems will use these magnetic nanoparticles for their first breast cancer clinical trial later this year. The nanoparticles stick to breast cancer cells, allowing the detection and removal of even small metastases. (More on KOB 4 News).
Sandia Labs News Release (04/25/18)
A collaboration between CINT, Sandia National Laboratories, and IR Dynamics has received one of the FLC's Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards for 2018. The project "is developing advanced nanoparticle films that boost the energy efficiency of windows, which could save American consumers as much as $12 billion each year and significantly reduce national energy consumption."
New Scientist (04/03/18)
A team at CINT has developed a process for extracting gold from surfaces such as SIM cards. The process, which induces cavitation on the surface of SIM cards, is cheap and has practically no environmental impact. The research was recently published in the journal Small. You can also read about this research at IFLScience and ABC News.
1663 (03/01/18)
The Los Alamos Science and Technology Magazine 1663 featured CINT scientist Hou-Tong Chen. The article describes Hou-Tong's work with "metamaterial "atoms" [which] absorb and re-radiate light like real atoms, allowing unique capabilities for imaging and communications."