Researchers Peel Back Another Layer of Chemistry with ‘Tender’ X-rays (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

(Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Berkeley Lab's Ethan Crumlin, working with other researchers, found a new way to study chemical processes at work in batteries and in other chemical reactions using a specialized X-ray toolkit developed at the lab's Advanced Light Source, an X-ray source. The technique was pioneered at the ALS's Beam Line 9.3.1. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Scientists can now directly probe a previously hard-to-see layer of chemistry thanks to a unique X-ray toolkit developed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The X-ray tools and techniques could be extended, researchers say, to provide new insight about...