2015 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

New Argonne Centers Connect Business with Energy Storage and Nanotechnology Research

Argonne National Laboratory has created two new collaborative centers that provide an innovative pathway for business and industry to access Argonne's unparalleled scientific resources to address the nation's energy and national security needs.

DOE Announces Funding for New Center for Computational Materials Sciences at Brookhaven Lab

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $12 million in funding over the next four years for a new Center for Computational Design of Functional Strongly Correlated Materials and Theoretical Spectroscopy at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Rutgers University.

Icy Arctic Proves Hot for Climate Data

In June 2015, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility launched the ARM Airborne Carbon Measurement V (ARM-ACME V), an aerial campaign focused on capturing data from the sky to better understand warming in the Arctic did a sixteen-week data collection campaign, now scientists are ready to explore their data.

ESnet Releases Open Source Software from MyESnet Portal for Building Online Interactive Network Portals

On Monday, October 5th, ESnet will release open source versions of its popular software that enables researchers and educators to monitor and diagram their networks, as well as represent that information in a unified time series.

Powering the Future with Solar Energy

The Energy Frontier Research Centers’ (EFRCs’) Autumn newsletter looks at the unique approaches different EFRCs are taking to understand basic science and thereby improve solar energy technologies.

Ames National Laboratory Scientists Create an All-Organic UV On-Chip Spectrometer

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory has developed a near ultra-violet and all-organic light emitting diode (OLED) that can be used as an on-chip photosensor.

Latest RHIC Results Presented at Quark Matter 2015

Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), and later at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), have shown that collisions of two large nuclei such as gold or lead melt protons and neutrons to “free” their constituent quarks and gluons, creating a very hot, dense soup of matter’s fundamental building blocks.

ORNL Microscopy Finds Evidence of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Single Layer

Electron microscopy at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is pointing researchers closer to the development of ultra-thin materials that transfer electrons with no resistance at relatively high temperatures.

The Color of Smog

A new study by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists shows the molecular details of how organic aerosol helps heat up and color the haze over megacities.

Titan Helps Unpuzzle Decades-Old Plutonium Perplexities

Through an allocation by the DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research Leadership Computing Challenge, a team of condensed matter theorists at Rutgers University used nearly 10 million Titan core hours to calculate the electronic and magnetic structure of plutonium.

Proud Model: Rolling on the River

A team led by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory coupled a newly developed river-routing model with an Earth system model, and the simulated streamflow compared favorably against the observed streamflow from more than 1,600 major river stations worldwide.

A Different Type of 2D Semiconductor

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have successfully grown atomically thin 2D sheets of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites from solution.