When Yu “Alex” Liang started graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin, he was tasked with running a straight-forward experiment to collect data on a well-understood phenomenon in fluid mechanics: how density differences influence fluid flow in a porous medium.
Read more about Table-Top Experiment Flips Current Understanding of Solutal Convection
A group of scientists from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has harnessed magnetic fields to control the molecular structure of LCEs and create microscopic three-dimensional polymer shapes that can be programmed to move in any direction in response to multiple types of stimuli.
Read more about Microscopic "Sunflowers" for Better Solar Panels
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center researchers Christos Maravelias and Peyman Fasahati aimed to identify critical drivers, outside of carbon efficiency, for assessing new biofuels strategies and found that there are two other vital parameters: the energy required to produce the fuels in a biorefinery and the fuels’ efficiency in a vehicle’s engine.
Read more about New Research Looks Beyond Carbon Efficiency to Improve Advanced Biofuel Strategy Development
Adlai B Katzenberg will further his research with the help of the Advanced Light Source to gain insight into the relationship between chemical structure, physical structure, and transport properties in perfluorinated sulfonic acid (PFSA) ionomers.
Read more about NYU Tandon Student Wins U.S. DOE Grant to Conduct Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory named Deborah Gulledge, an undergraduate research intern at the lab, as its Scientist of the Week.
Read more about APSU Physics Student Named “Scientist of the Week” at National Lab
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are developing a renewable energy approach for synthesizing ammonia, an essential component of fertilizers that support the world’s food production needs.
Read more about Notre Dame Researchers Developing Renewable Energy Approach for Producing Ammonia
Suspensions of live bacteria in a viscous liquid do not act as expected when spun at certain speeds and now a team of researchers know why the bacterial aggregation appears to explode when the spinning stops.
Read more about Nova-like Explosion of Spinning Live Bacteria Explained
A team of researchers from the University of Maryland (UMD) Department of Physics together with collaborators has seen exotic superconductivity that relies on highly unusual electron interactions.
Read more about A Different Spin on Superconductivity: Unusual Particle Interactions Open up new Possibilities in Exotic Materials
New research from The Ohio State University offers a glimpse into the complexity of interactions between bacteria and the viruses – or phages – that infect them.
Read more about Scientists Uncover Details of Viral Infections that Drive Environmental, Human Health
A newly discovered structure of a sodium-based material allows the materials to be used as an electrolyte in solid-state batteries, according to researchers from Penn State and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
Read more about New Sodium-ion Electrolyte May Find Use in Solid-state Batteries
A research team led by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, has opened the door to using other metals in lithium-based batteries, and have built cathodes with 50 percent more lithium-storage capacity than conventional materials.
Read more about New Technology Could Wean the Battery World Off Cobalt
A Stanford University researcher has bioengineered an effective protein mimic that restored breathing capacity to the injured lungs of rats.
Read more about Scientist Develops Protein Mimic to Help Injured Lungs Breathe
