National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, ...

The modern world, full of pollution and electronic devices, is a positive ion prison. Since everything in nature seeks balance, positive ions naturally seek a negative charge. Ironically, it is these ...

As complexity increases one needs more and more flexibility in “configuring” a simulation. This is typically achieved by defining a "configuration file" which organizes all of the "user instructions" ...

How do different materials react to the impact of ions? This is a question that plays an important role in many areas of research -- for example in nuclear fusion research, when the walls of the ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has approved Critical Decision 1 for the Electron-Ion Collider, marking the start of the project’s execution phase following the completion of its definition and ...

Pulsed testbed the CSRm ion storage ring in Lanzhou, China. (Courtesy: IMP) Physicists in the US and China have studied how a pulsed beam of electrons can be used to cool a beam of high-energy ions – ...

Electron transfer (ET) across proteins is fundamental in many biological processes, such as photosynthesis and aerobic respiration. Recent discoveries from the bacterial world have shown that proteins ...