Success Stories

Fixing leaky heating and cooling ducts in buildings can be an expensive, labor-intensive process. Yet doing so can save significant amounts of energy. According to the Department of Energy, homes and buildings consume 40% of the nation’s energy, but an average of 30% of this energy is wasted. This wasted energy is largely due to air lost from small leaks in heating and cooling … [Read more...] about Berkeley Lab Duct Sealing Innovation Saves Energy in Buildings Around the World

(updated Sept. 30, 2021) Researchers seeking to cure disease or address environmental and food safety hazards face a bottleneck in electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), which requires biospecimens be loaded and delivered to the machine one at a time. LBNL researchers set out to clear that expensive, time-consuming bottleneck with a multinozzle emitter array. … [Read more...] about Newomics – M3 Emitter

August 26, 2021 Just as clunky cathode ray tube televisions were displaced in the 1980s by flat panel, vivid displays, today’s audio technology may soon be displaced by graphene-based audio tech.   In 2014, principal investigator Alex Zettl and postdoctoral researcher Qin Zhou of Berkeley Lab and the University of California at Berkeley published a seminal paper about … [Read more...] about Graphene-Based Material Takes Audio Tech to the Next Level

A recent study found that an infant-warming device developed at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley is safe and effective at lowering newborn mortality rates associated with hypothermia. The device contains phase-change material, which can absorb and release large amounts of thermal energy or heat. Read about the study here. … [Read more...] about Infant-Warming Device Proven Safe and Effective