Can we build the ultimate water electrolyzer? Find out at our next seminar with Shannon Boettcher from UC Berkeley, whose lab designs materials and devices for clean hydrogen production, CO₂ capture, and electrochemical energy conversion. Tues., May 26 at 11:00 AM PT #CO2capture In person or Zoom.

✨ #FoundryFriday — on the eve of the International Day of Light, explore 20 years of luminescent nanoparticle science at the Molecular Foundry. From single-protein imaging to avalanching nanoparticles. 🌟 #Foundryat20 #nanoscience 🔗 https://bit.ly/42q5Bp0

Can a 2D material power quantum technologies? Dr. Sanjay Behura (SDSU) joins us to explore spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride for quantum sensing & communication. Tues. May 19th 11 AM PT In person & Zoom. #nanoscience #BerkeleyLab https://bit.ly/4euhcut

⏰ Abstract deadline: May 15! Molecular Foundry users — submit your abstract for a contributed talk at our Annual User Meeting. Each symposium includes at least 2 contributed talks, and unselected abstracts are invited to the poster session: https://bit.ly/4nqRaut #nanoscience

Our 2026 User Meeting (Aug 20–21) afternoon sessions: bio-inspired critical materials recovery, core-level spectroscopy (PICKLES), superconducting qubit materials & an AI agents workshop with hands-on DFT tutorial 🤖🧲 Register: usermeeting2026.foundry.lbl.gov #nanoscience #MFAUM26

#FoundryFriday In 2012, Natron Energy founder Colin Wessells came to the Molecular Foundry with fundamental questions about his Prussian blue battery chemistry. Now his company has 250 employees and a gigawatt-scale factory. Check out the full Q&A with Colin: https://bit.ly/4d4xgkg #Foundryat20

What if your microscope couldn't zoom in far enough? Dr. Steffi Woo (ORNL) uses electrons instead of light to reveal hidden nanoscale behavior in 2D semiconductors. Join us Mon., May 11 at 1 PM PT, In person or Zoom https://bit.ly/4uos7dW#nanoscience #2Dmaterials #electronmicroscopy #BerkeleyLab

Our 2026 User Meeting (Aug 20–21) morning sessions cover critical metals, soft matter, photonic quantum tech & an MBXAS workshop — hands-on X-ray spectroscopy simulation developed at the Foundry! 🔬⚛️ Register: usermeeting2026.foundry.lbl.gov #nanoscience #MFAUM26

#FoundryFriday Meet Arian Gashi — machinist, problem-solver, and the backbone of our machine shop at the Molecular Foundry. From community college music to national lab nanoscience. 🔧 #Foundryat20 #nanoscience https://bit.ly/49jasvS

Registration is open for our 2026 Annual User Meeting! 📅 August 20–21, DoubleTree Berkeley Marina, Berkeley CA. Join our nanoscience community for two days of science & collaboration. usermeeting2026.foundry.lbl.gov #nanoscience @berkeleylab.lbl.gov#nanoscience

What controls reaction kinetics at the catalyst-electrolyte interface? Dr. Yu Huang (UCLA) joins us 4/28 to explore how surface structure, interfacial water, and cation presence shape electrocatalytic performance. Tues, April 28 | 11 AM PT | In person + Zoom. Link in bio! https://bit.ly/4e2s8zg

🌎 #FoundryFriday + Earth Day! We invented PDK — a plastic that recycles down to its original molecules indefinitely, reducing dependence on petrochemicals & enabling domestic supply chains. 🔗: https://bit.ly/4cuc9J1 #Foundryat20 #EarthDay #nanoscience @berkeleylab.lbl.gov#FoundryFriday

Happy #EarthDay! 🌍 Foundry alum Daniel Sun turned a nanoscience discovery — a MOF that captures gold from e-waste — into Sunchem, recovering 99.9%+ pure gold from circuit boards. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vLByWf #Foundryat20 #EarthDay #nanoscience @berkeleylab.lbl.gov#EarthDay

Spring Seminar Series starts Tues, April 21! 🔬 Dr. Sreekanth Pannala (SABIC) on bridging atomic-scale science and real-world materials performance with physics-informed AI & autonomous experimentation. 11 am PT, Berkeley Lab + Zoom. All welcome! #nanoscience #BerkeleyLab https://bit.ly/3QkH0iE

Our Spring 2026 Seminar Series starts April 21! 🔬 Nine weeks of cutting-edge nanoscience talks — hybrid Tuesdays at 11am PT. Join us in person at Berkeley Lab or on Zoom. Full schedule: https://bit.ly/3QcGVHW

#FoundryFriday 🔬 Celebrating World Quantum Day with a glow-up story: A "defect" — tiny nanobubbles in an ultrathin semiconductor — turned out to be the most tunable single-photon source ever demonstrated. Full story: https://bit.ly/3Q84szH #Foundryat20 #WorldQuantumDay #Nanoscience

Congratulations to Yashwanth Balaji for winning the Scientific Discovery category of the #NationalLabSLAM! All of us at @berkeleylab.lbl.gov are super proud of you!! #NLSLAM26

We’re here watching the #NationalLabSLAm here at @berkeleylab.lbl.gov! The next category is Scientific Discovery and Yashwanth Balaji is about to speak! We’re rooting for you Yash! #NLSLAM26

We are getting set up with our watch party to support Yashwanth Balaji at the #NationalLabSLAM today! Go Yash! @berkeleylab.lbl.gov #NLSLAM26

Behind every breakthrough is a scientist learning, experimenting, and communicating discovery. The Molecular Foundry is excited to see our researcher Yashwanth Balaji share quantum materials research with new audiences at the #NationalLabSLAM today! @berkeleylab.lbl.gov#NationalLabSLAM#NLSLAM26

Science at scale happens through collaboration. We’re proud to support @BerkeleyLab finalist Yashwanth Balaji as he joins scientists from 17 DOE National Labs at the #NationalLabSLAM. National user facilities empower researchers to tackle challenges no single institution can solve alone. #NLSLAM26

At the Molecular Foundry, researchers explore matter at the nanoscale to solve big challenges. Yashwanth Balaji’s SLAM talk shows how advanced materials research helps make quantum computers more resilient — bringing transformative technologies closer to reality. Hosted next week! #NationalLabSLAM

🚀 #FoundryFriday | #Foundry20 In honor of #ArtemisII, we're spotlighting Hope Ishii, who studies Moon & asteroid samples atom by atom using electron microscopy at the Molecular Foundry's NCEM. "Learning something new that people didn't know before" — that's the drive. https://bit.ly/41dzUPe

Quantum innovation starts with materials. Our Project Scientist Yashwanth Balaji is representing the Molecular Foundry and @berkeleylab.lbl.gov at the #NationalLabSLAM on April 5, sharing how materials design can protect quantum devices from cosmic radiation. #NLSLAM26

Our new QIS (Quantum Information Science) Cluster Tool is an automated system that allows researchers to test dozens of different materials and fabrication methods for qubits in a single run. #QuantumComputing #MaterialsScience #Foundryat20 #DiscoverytoDelivery

The sun is setting on the Molecular Foundry's 20th birthday. 🌅 But today was just the opening note. Every Friday from here, we'll be sharing a story — the discoveries, the people, the moments that made this place what it is. Follow #FoundryFriday to keep celebrating with us. #Foundryat20

Behind every nanoscience breakthrough is a researcher with a story. For the Foundry's 20th Anniversary, we're sharing theirs. 🔗 foundry.lbl.gov/impact/my-foundry-story/ Do you have a Foundry story? Tell us. 👇 #Foundryat20 #MyFoundryStory

The Molecular Foundry turns 20 today. 🔬✨ Two decades of open-access nanoscience at @berkeleylab.lbl.gov— thousands of users, discoveries, and stories. Explore 20 years of impact: foundry.lbl.gov/impact/

Don't forget! Today 3/10 @ 11am PT Bernard Field will share his research on complex 2D materials and how computational tools help uncover new metal-organic systems with potential for quantum technologies. Get the zoom link & more here: https://bit.ly/46EOtyn

Join us next Tuesday 3/10 at 11am PT for the next talk in our seminar series where Bernard Field will share his research on complex 2D materials and how computational tools help uncover new metal-organic systems with potential for quantum technologies. Link to zoom info & more in comments.

Clues to next-gen tech are hidden in densely clustered MOF crystals. Researchers developed “virtual apertures,” a new electron microscopy technique to mine nanocrystal data for energy tech and #DrugDiscovery. @nersc.bsky.social @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov#DrugDiscovery

Don't forget! Today 3/3 @ 11am PT Mythili Suranden presents her research on characterizing superconducting thin films and understanding how their structure and composition impact device performance.#quantum Get the zoom link & more here: https://bit.ly/4lfhFSN

Join us next Tuesday 3/3 at 11am PT for the next talk in our seminar series where Mythili Surendran presents her research on characterizing superconducting thin films and understanding how their structure and composition impact device performance. Link to zoom info & more in comments.

📣 We're joining up with the @jgi.doe.gov to launch our joint Critical Minerals & Materials Call 👀 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3MvzWy6 This is an opportunity to request the capabilities and expertise of both facilities. The call opens 3/1, and our 2/27 webinar is TOMORROW: https://bit.ly/3Oox1I0

Don't forget today Tuesday 2/24 at 11am PT Preetika Rastogi will discuss her work leveraging state of the art imaging techniques to elucidate details of the assembly of Nanoparticles Surfactants for structuring liquids. Link to zoom: https://bit.ly/4kq9ZfQ

Our proposal call opens March 1! Get tips and tricks for a successful proposal by joining our information session this Thursday, 2/26 at 1pm PT! Get the details and link here: https://bit.ly/4tOx8N9

Join us next Tuesday 2/24 at 11am PT for the next talk in our seminar series where Preetika Rastogi will discuss her work leveraging state of the art imaging techniques to elucidate details of the assembly of Nanoparticles Surfactants for structuring liquids. Link to zoom: https://bit.ly/4kq9ZfQ

Don't forget! Today 2/17 @ 11am PT Guangzhao Chen will discuss combining spin-polarized density functional theory (DFT) with analytical dipolar models for designing #quantum technologies. Get the zoom link & more here: https://bit.ly/403xi5G

📣 We're joining up with @jgi.doe.gov in a joint Critical Minerals & Materials Call 👀: https://bit.ly/3MvzWy6 This is an opportunity to use the capabilities and expertise of both facilities. The call opens March 1. You can register for our Feb. 27 webinar now: https://bit.ly/3Oox1I0

Join us next Tues 2/17 @ 11am PT for the next talk in our seminar series. Guangzhao Chen will discuss combining spin-polarized density functional theory (DFT) with analytical dipolar models for #quantum technologies. Get the zoom link & more here: https://bit.ly/403xi5G

Dont forget today 2/10 at 11am PT Maher Alghalayini will present two demonstrations of AI-driven robotic platforms using Bayesian methods to learn how parameters affect material quality. Get the zoom link and more: https://bit.ly/4qvwLFn

Join us next Tuesday 2/10 at 11am PT for the next talk in our seminar series Maher Alghalayini will present two demonstrations of AI-driven robotic platforms using Bayesian methods to learn how parameters affect material quality. Get the zoom link and more: https://bit.ly/4qvwLFn

Don't forget to join us today 1/27 at 11am PT to hear Yashwanth Balaji talk about his work exploring alternative JJ #materials that enable gap #engineering for #quantum information science. Get the zoom link and more on our website https://bit.ly/4a9H6ks

Join us next Tues 1/27 at 11am PT for the next talk in our seminar series where Yashwanth Balaji will share his work on a novel approach to explore alternative JJ #materials that enable gap #engineering for #quantum information science. Get the zoom link and more here: https://bit.ly/4a9H6ks

Don't forget! Join us today (1/20) at 11am PT for the next talk in our Winter Seminar Series: Juhyeok Lee will talk about his work on building an advanced #cryo-electron tomography reconstruction framework. Zoom link & more here: https://bit.ly/4jM7Quz

Join us Tues 1/20 for the next talk in our Winter Seminar Series: Juhyeok Lee will talk about his work on building an advanced #cryo-electron tomography reconstruction framework. Tune in at 11am PT! Zoom link & more here: https://bit.ly/4jM7Quz

Don't forget! Today (1/13) at 11am PT Zongliang Xie will discuss developing a digital-twin–enabled generative #AI framework that accelerates the discovery of polymers for #energystorage. Zoom link & more here: https://bit.ly/49vEBHI

Join us at 11am PT on 1/13 for the first talk in our Winter Seminar Series: Zongliang Xie will discuss developing a digital-twin–enabled generative #AI framework that accelerates the discovery of polymers for #energystorage. Zoom link & more here: https://bit.ly/49vEBHI

Our Winter 2026 Seminar Series starts January 13, featuring 9 early career researchers from across the Foundry. Tuesdays at 11 AM PT, in person or on zoom. Get the full schedule and Zoom links: https://bit.ly/3QcGVHW #Seminars #EarlyCareer

The #NobelPrize-winning materials known as MOFs have incredible promise for #EnergyTechnology, #medicine, #CleanWater, and more. Our scientists are helping pioneer the field to make big changes from these tiny crystal sponges. ⬇️ newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/01/06/f... @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov