Terminating Toxic Metals in the Environment
Understanding ceramic chemistry leads the way to a new remediation technology
View ArticleModeling How Uranium Sticks to Soils
Understanding the interaction of uranium in soils may lead to new ways to clean-up contaminated ground.
View ArticleA Revolutionary Advance in Solders – the “Glue” for Electronic Components
Ames Laboratory invented a non-toxic, “lead-free” solder that is now used to manufacture electronic components worldwide.
View ArticleTailored Materials Containing Superconductor Islands May Lead to Improved...
Arrays of superconducting islands open up the possibility for tailor-made properties and functionality.
View ArticleCutting the Cost for Commercial Gas Purification – Theory Leads the Way for a...
Novel material for purifying gases could significantly lower industrial energy costs.
View ArticleSimple Synthesis of Pore Highways Inside of Catalysts
House-of-Cards structure leads to improved zeolite catalyst.
View ArticleCutting the Costs of Solar Power with Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Solar Cells
High-efficiency compound semiconductor solar cells can now be printed on flexible, plastics.
View ArticleCatching Lithium Ions in Action in a Battery Electrode
New microscopy with nanometer-sized resolution may bring revolutionary new understanding to energy storage technologies.
View ArticleSynchrotron plus Mass Spectrometer equals New Insights Into Combustion Chemistry
Unique analysis of the reaction of propene with oxygen atom reveals the influence of electron spin on combustion chemistry.
View ArticleThe Dance of Atoms in Molecules Captured in Ultrafast Time
The first real-time images of two atoms vibrating in a molecule have been captured using a technique called laser-induced electron diffraction.
View Article“Dark Fiber” Enables Research to Create Tomorrow’s Internet
The Advanced Networking Initiative testbed is allowing researchers to develop radical new technologies for the next generation Internet.
View ArticleSupercomputers Drive Discovery of Materials for More Efficient Carbon Capture
Researchers use NERSC to Create Carbon Dioxide-Separating Polymer.
View ArticleUniverse in a (Blue) Bottle
Simulating the evolution of the universe on the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s IBM Blue Gene/Q.
View ArticleDesigning Drugs on Supercomputers
Researchers use Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to accelerate drug discovery.
View ArticleGlass Stronger than Steel
A new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass, demonstrating a strength and toughness beyond that of steel or any other known material, has been developed and tested by a collaboration of researchers...
View ArticlePremier Tools of Energy Research Also Probe Secrets of Viral Disease
Advanced light sources peer into matter at the atomic and molecular scales, with applications ranging from physics, chemistry, materials science, and advanced energy research, to biology and medicine.
View ArticleFirm Uses DOE’s Fastest Supercomputer to Streamline Long-Haul Trucks
Sophisticated simulation on the world’s fastest computer for science makes trucks more aerodynamic, saves fuel, helps environment.
View ArticleDetecting Nuclear Threats
Plasma physics challenge yields portable nuclear detector for homeland security.
View ArticleThe Breakthrough Behind the Chevy Volt Battery
A revolutionary breakthrough cathode for lithium-ion batteries—the kind in your cell phone, laptop and new hybrid cars—makes them last longer, run more safely and perform better than batteries...
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