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Archives for August 2018

Thanks for joining us!

The 2018 Annual User Meeting came to a successful conclusion today, August 16, with over 300 attendees. Our congratulations go to the User Executive Committee, and in particular Francesca Toma, Greg Su, and Valerie Leppert for putting together an excellent meeting!

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Industry research at the Foundry

Early-stage product research and development is a challenge and benefits from the technical expertise, instrumentation, and collaborative environment available at user facilities.  The Foundry successfully supports a gamut of users and projects with industrial connections focused on product research, development, and technical de-risking.

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“Making a racecar out of a Camry”

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has come a long way since its inception in 1931, yet most efforts have been focused on improving spatial resolution. During her talk at the Multimodal In Situ Characterization symposium, Mitra Taheri, associate professor of materials science and engineering at Drexel University, argued that other important areas for improvement are time resolution, chemical evolution, and data mining/intelligent microscopy.

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Poster Competition Winners!

Out of the 300+ attendees at the user meeting, we had over 90 poster presentations! Several of these presenters entered our annual poster competition. With two categories, students and postdocs, judges from the User Executive Committee scored each entry. 

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Nanoscience can unlock the quantum revolution

 As we are starting to enter the quantum era and we are beginning to see that the possibilities ahead look limitless. In a standing-room only session at the Foundry’s Annual User Meeting, a symposium on quantum information science delved into the types of nanoscale investigation techniques and qubit fabrication capabilities that must be developed in order for fully functioning quantum information systems to be realized. 

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Probing aqueous carbonates with soft X-ray spectroscopy

“If you don’t have a bright mind, wear a bright shirt,” said Richard Saykally, professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley, as he walked to the podium of the Multimodal In Situ Characterization Symposium in a black and pink Hawaiian shirt. Saykally’s group uses atom specific soft X-ray spectroscopy to probe liquids and their surfaces, particularly aqueous carbonates.

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AUM Day 2

Welcome back for another great day of nanoscience at the Foundry’s Annual User Meeting! Some participants signed up for a tour of the Foundry facilities early this morning, but returned to the auditorium in time for the start of today’s program.

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Poster SLAM!

In the Foundry’s inaugural Poster Slam hosted by staff scientist, Nate Hohman, students who entered in the poster competition presented their work in the form of a single slide. Each slam participant presented a preview of their poster in just 60 seconds!

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New Staff and Capabilities at the Foundry

In the afternoon session, we were introduced to new members of the Foundry staff, along with a quick primer about each of their research programs that they’ll be starting. 

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Using Synthetic Glycopolymers to Reveal New Targets for Cancer Immune Therapy

Carolyn Bertozzi, formerly director of the Molecular Foundry and now the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, gave an inspiring talk about how work started at the Molecular Foundry has led to new developments in creating new cancer therapies and to spinning out a company to bring their discoveries to market.

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