Success Stories

With sky rocketing gasoline prices and exploding laptops, there could not have been a better time for a new rechargeable battery breakthrough.  Enter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (LBNL) nanostructured polymer electrolyte (NPE). NPE is a solid electrolyte designed for use in rechargeable lithium batteries. The unique material was developed by LBNL researchers Nitash … [Read more...] about Berkeley Lab’s Solid Electrolyte May Usher in a New Generation of Rechargeable Lithium Batteries For Vehicles

Eighty percent of individuals suffering from coronary artery disease (CAD) have normal cholesterol levels.  Half of the 1.5 million heart attacks in the U.S. each year strike people without symptoms who also have normal levels.  Berkeley Lab scientists have now developed a more complete cholesterol assessment test that will help identify individuals like these who may have no … [Read more...] about Berkeley Lab’s Direct Cholesterol Assessment Test Identifies Unseen Risks

Quantum Dots (Qdots), nano-scale semiconductor crystals that emit a range of bright colors when excited by a light source such as a laser, are shining brightly these days.  The Berkeley Lab developed technology has been licensed by Quantum Dot Corporation and is being used as fluorescence probes for biomedical assays.  The technology just won an R & D 100 Award and Quantum … [Read more...] about Quantum Dots Outshine the Competition for Biomedical Assays

In 1675 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek asked, “what’s out there?,” before he discovered the existence of microorganisms. Now, over 300 years later, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) are able to accurately and quickly test for over 8,000 bacterial species with a device that fits into a person’s hand – a microbial detection power previously … [Read more...] about Berkeley Lab’s PhyloChip Enables Tracking of Bacterial Dangers

Combustion is one of the earliest chemical processes studied by humans.  Yet just a few years ago a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) stood combustion theory on its head by developing an ultralow-emissions combustion technology for gas turbines that significantly reduces greenhouse emissions and pollution from electricity production. LBNL’s low NOx … [Read more...] about Low Swirl Injector Stands Combustion Theory on Its Head