Ames National Laboratory 3D Printing Technology Research Taking Shape
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory see amazing potential in 3D printing and additive manufacturing, and are focusing research toward further advances in the technology.
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Los Alamos Researchers Uncover New Properties in Nanocomposite Oxide Ceramics for Reactor Fuel, Fast-ion Conductors
In a nanocomposite, the size of each of these grains is on the order of nanometers, roughly 1000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
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Interface Surprises May Motivate Novel Oxide Electronic Devices
Project by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory leads to an experiment and theory that corroborate two distinct mechanisms in a ferroelectric material.
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A Nanosized Hydrogen Generator
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have created a small scale “hydrogen generator” that uses light and a two-dimensional graphene platform to boost production of the hard-to-make element.
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Novel Capability Enables First Test of Real Turbine Engine Conditions
Manufactures of turbine engines for airplanes, automobiles and electric generation plants could expedite the development of more durable, energy-efficient turbine blades thanks to a partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, the German Aerospace Center and the universities of Central Florida and Cleveland State.
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Improving Plant-based Battery with Neutrons and Simulations
Researchers at ORNL and the University of Tennessee are studying the structure of plant-based battery materials by combining neutron experiments and supercomputer simulations.
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How Chemicals Spread in Soils
A group of researchers from multiple institutions including EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed models of how water and chemicals flow in soils, which could help capture the spread of underground contaminants.
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Elusive Quantum Transformations Found Near Absolute Zero
Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University researchers measure the quantum fluctuations behind a novel magnetic material's ultra-cold ferromagnetic phase transition.
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Decoding Virus-Host Interactions in the Oxygen-Starved Ocean
In a first of its kind study, exploiting the unique strength of single-cell genomics, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and collaborators at the University of Arizona and the University of British Columbia explored virus-host dynamics to reveal that viruses appear to be much more key to marine microbial ecology below sunlit surface waters than suspected.
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Imaging Fuel Injectors with Neutrons
A team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is attempting to make the first-ever neutron images of cavitation, the physical event that leads to bubble/gas formation, inside the body of a gasoline fuel injector.
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Advanced Light Source Sets Microscopy Record
Berkeley Lab researchers achieve highest resolution ever with x-ray microscopy.
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Angling Chromium to Let Oxygen Through
New semiconducting material created at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory works at temperatures low enough to improve fuel cell efficiency.
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