X-Rays Reveal ‘Handedness’ in Swirling Electric Vortices
Scientists used spiraling X-rays at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to observe, for the first time, a property that gives handedness to swirling electric patterns – dubbed polar vortices – in a synthetically layered material.
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What if our military could dramatically reduce the amount of materials and equipment held on the front lines by printing only what they need? Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are aiming to do this with new advances in 3-D printing.
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By exploiting the properties of neutrons to probe electrons in a metal, a team of researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has gained new insight into the behavior of correlated electron systems, which are materials that have useful properties such as magnetism or superconductivity.
Read more about Breaking Bad Metals with NeutronsDOE Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar Visits Jefferson Lab
On Jan. 11, Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar visited Jefferson Lab. While at the lab, he met several members of the lab’s senior leadership team, as well as members of the lab’s User Community and DOE Thomas Jefferson Site Office staff, and a number of the lab’s young scientists.
Read more about DOE Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar Visits Jefferson LabNeutrons Inspect Salt-inclusion Materials to Improve Long-term Waste Storage
A team of researchers from the University of South Carolina is using neutrons to develop more durable and efficient materials called waste forms for safely storing hazardous substances.
Read more about Neutrons Inspect Salt-inclusion Materials to Improve Long-term Waste StorageMiaofang Chi: Molecular Artistry
As a research staff member at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Chi develops novel electron microscopy techniques to help scientists solve problems and synthesize materials with optimal physical properties.
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Argonne researchers have gotten a better look at how the molecular structures of organic solar cells form, which provides new insights that can improve their efficiency.
Read more about Going OrganicORNL Researchers Use Titan to Accelerate Design, Training of Deep Learning Networks
A team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has married artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to achieve a peak speed of 20 petaflops in the generation and training of deep learning networks on the laboratory’s Titan supercomputer.
Read more about ORNL Researchers Use Titan to Accelerate Design, Training of Deep Learning NetworksQ&A: Alan Heirich and Elliott Slaughter Take On SLAC’s Big Data Challenges
As the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory builds the next generation of powerful instruments for groundbreaking research in X-ray science, astronomy and other fields, its Computer Science Division is preparing for the onslaught of data these instruments will produce.
Read more about Q&A: Alan Heirich and Elliott Slaughter Take On SLAC’s Big Data ChallengesReal World Native Biocrusts: Microbial Metabolism
Berkeley Lab researchers led by the Northen lab report that specific compounds are transformed by and strongly associated with specific bacteria in native biological soil crust (biocrust) using a suite of tools Northen calls “exometabolomics.” Understanding how microbial communities in the biocrusts adapt to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.
Read more about Real World Native Biocrusts: Microbial MetabolismESnet’s DOE Early-Career Awardee Works to Overcome Roadblocks in Computational Networks
Mariam Kiran – a network engineer for the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), a DOE Office of Science user facility managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – is using an early-career research award from DOE’s Office of Science to develop methods combining machine-learning algorithms with parallel computing to optimize such networks.
Read more about ESnet’s DOE Early-Career Awardee Works to Overcome Roadblocks in Computational NetworksTweaking Quantum dots Powers-up Double-pane Solar Windows
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are creating double-pane solar windows that generate electricity with greater efficiency and create shading and insulation for good measure.
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