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During his most recent internship at Argonne, Bryce Smith worked on equipment for the Gammasphere experiment at the ATLAS facility. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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Schematic of the ANN-ECG method used in this work. Schematic example shows a three-bead/monomer coarse-grained molecular model mapping for sexi(3-methyl)thiophene.

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Argonne scientist’s approach to molecular modeling may accelerate the development of new organic materials for electronics.

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$Scientists have found a way to use “optical tweezers” by employing lasers, a mirror and a light modulator to anchor a crystal in solution. The “tweezers” have made it possible to conduct X-ray diffraction measurements of a crystal suspended in solution.$

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Optical “tweezers” combine with X-rays to enable analysis of crystals in liquids

Optical “tweezers” hold crystal steady for X-ray experiment.

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Lithium ions flow through solid material

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(Left) Electrons transiting the 80 mm long metamaterial structure generate high power microwaves. (Right) Photo of the beam line at the ANL Wakefield Test Accelerator

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An experiment at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator demonstrates the potential of a novel metamaterial structure to yield higher accelerating gradients than current particle accelerator technology provides.

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Unique spectral response in a mechanical device

Using a single actuation signal, a frequency comb is generated in a micromechanical resonator from two vibrational modes, flexural and torsional, whose interactions are responsible for the unique response.

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Exascale comes to Argonne