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ESA fosters scientific excellence, external partnerships, and diverse teams to achieve transformational breakthroughs in materials and chemistry that provide the foundations for new energy, information, and quantum technologies." theme="dark-blue" > <lbl-image img-caption="Berkeley Lab scientists Brett Helms (left) and Corinne Scown hold samples of PDK plastic, a unique new material that can be recycled indefinitely, a vast improvement over the current rate of recycling of traditional plastics which is less than 10%, at The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California" img-credit="(Credit: Thor Swift)" slot="media" > <img decoding="async" width="1440" height="715" src="https://energysciences.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/XBD-202105-0057-006-1440px.jpg" class="attachment-lbl-components-lg size-lbl-components-lg" alt="A man and woman in a lab wearing PPE holding small rectangular samples of PDK plastic" slot="media" /> </lbl-image> 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research ranging from advanced materials and novel chemistry to protein crystallography and 3D biological imaging.</p> </lbl-rich-text> <lbl-button icon="" slot="btn" text="Visit ALS website" link-target="_blank" link-url="https://als.lbl.gov/" type="inline" > </lbl-button> </lbl-grid-card> <lbl-grid-card layout="" date="" text="" link-url="https://chemistry.lbl.gov/" link-target="_blank" title="Chemical Sciences Division" > <lbl-image slot="media" img-caption="" img-credit="" > <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="890" height="665" src="https://energysciences.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/ChemScience-890px.jpeg" class="attachment-lbl-components-md size-lbl-components-md" alt="" slot="media" /> </lbl-image> <lbl-rich-text slot="rich-text"> <p>CSD is the home of fundamental research in chemistry and chemical engineering at Berkeley Lab, with a portfolio that spans from atomic to macroscopic scales and from the timescales of electron motion to chemical transformations.</p> </lbl-rich-text> <lbl-button icon="" slot="btn" text="Visit Chemical Sciences website" link-target="_blank" link-url="https://chemistry.lbl.gov/" type="inline" > </lbl-button> </lbl-grid-card> <lbl-grid-card layout="" date="" text="" link-url="https://materialssciences.lbl.gov/" link-target="_blank" title="Materials Sciences Division" > <lbl-image slot="media" img-caption="" img-credit="" > <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="890" height="611" src="https://energysciences.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/copper-nanoparticle-homepage-1720x1180-1.jpg" class="attachment-lbl-components-md size-lbl-components-md" alt="" slot="media" /> </lbl-image> <lbl-rich-text slot="rich-text"> <p>In MSD, researchers advance the fundamental science of materials within the context of global energy-related challenges, developing techniques to design, discover and understand materials for a wide range of applications, including solar cells, computer chips, and nanoscale 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