Scientists at the Advanced Photon Source are creating new artificial intelligence tools to aid in scientific discovery. Here's one from earlier this year: the Context-Aware Language Model for Science (CALMS). https://lnkd.in/gwriFk5k
Advanced Photon Source
Research Services
Lemont, Illinois 3,654 followers
World-class x-ray light source conducting experiments in energy, materials, health, security, and basic research.
About us
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory. This premier national research facility provides ultra-bright, high-energy X-ray beams to more than 5,500 scientists from the United States and around the world in a typical year. The APS is ideal for studying the arrangements of molecules and atoms, probing the interfaces where materials meet, determining the interdependent form and function of biological proteins, and watching chemical processes that happen on the nanoscale.
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https://www.aps.anl.gov/
External link for Advanced Photon Source
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- Research Services
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- 201-500 employees
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- Lemont, Illinois
- Founded
- 1995
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Scientists have found a way to make perovskite crystals both more stable and better at absorbing light. Using powerful X-ray tools, they showed how tiny seed crystals guide the material into a structure that boosts efficiency. https://lnkd.in/gVHZFHZn
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Could the future of quantum computing lie in the mysterious dance of electron spins under extreme pressure? In a collaborative project, Argonne researchers using the Advanced Photon Source are on the brink of finding out. https://lnkd.in/gwjMPtQw
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Happy Monday! ICYMI last week: Scientists using the Advanced Photon Source discovered that a special material shows a much stronger thermoelectric response when heat flows in one direction compared to another, revealing a new way to harness the little-studied Nernst effect. This insight could help design more efficient materials that turn waste heat into electricity or cool microelectronics. https://lnkd.in/gzP242_Q
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Science highlight Friday! Scientists found a simpler way to make exotic forms of silicon for a variety of uses. By compressing glassy, disordered silicon until its density matches the target structure, the material naturally snaps into place, opening a new pathway for advanced materials. https://lnkd.in/gTAqj8EB
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It's Throwback Thursday! Cast your mind back 13 years ago this month, when we posted a video of APS scientist Chris Benmore demonstrating the acoustic levitation technique. It looks like a magic trick, but it uses sound waves (at just above the level of human hearing) to suspend matter in mid-air. This video immediately began racking up the views, and now stands at 1.9 million. https://lnkd.in/gYEq74MR Read the story below for an interesting use of this levitation technique: to heat up samples beyond the point where any container you put them in would melt. https://lnkd.in/g-B9W-vU
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The Advanced Photon Source contributed to this research on 3D-printed steel for nuclear reactors with our friends at the Center for Nanoscale Materials. https://lnkd.in/gK8qPc7n
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Scientists using the Advanced Photon Source discovered that a special material shows a much stronger thermoelectric response when heat flows in one direction compared to another, revealing a new way to harness the little-studied Nernst effect. This insight could help design more efficient materials that turn waste heat into electricity or cool microelectronics. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gzP242_Q
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Advanced Photon Source reposted this
It was an honor to welcome Deputy Secretary of Energy James P. Danly to Argonne. His visit, following Secretary Chris Wright’s tour this past July, reflects the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s strong engagement in our shared mission to deliver scientific and technological leadership for the nation. As we visited key facilities across campus, we explored how Argonne’s world-class research is delivering real-world impact. From artificial intelligence and exascale computing at Aurora, housed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, to transformative science at the Advanced Photon Source, to breakthroughs in nuclear energy, critical materials, and energy manufacturing, Argonne is helping build a more competitive, reliable, and secure energy future. Our continued collaboration with the Department, other national laboratories, and industry partners ensures we remain at the forefront of discovery. I’m grateful for the Deputy Secretary’s visit, and proud of the Argonne teams pushing this important work forward every day.
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For Trivia Thursday last week, we asked you the name of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility supercomputer that preceded Aurora, and was used to test data analysis speeds coming out of the upgraded APS. The correct answer, as most of you knew, is Polaris. (Some of you may have also noticed that the other choices - Prometheus and Romulus - are names of Alien movies. 😄). Thanks to all who guessed! Read more about the APS/Polaris connection in this story from 2023: https://lnkd.in/duZq7rKZ
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