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New Equipment Allows Ames Laboratory and ISU Researchers to Simulate Commercial Materials Processing

Researchers at Iowa State University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have a new tool to help understand and fine-tune the processing of materials in a variety of commercial techniques.

ALCF Summer Student Projects Tackle Real-World Problems

Dominique Hoskin took an important first step towards a future career in designing commercial aircrafts by spending his summer working with high-performance computing (HPC) codes at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility.

SNS Accelerator Celebrates 10 Years of Leading the Way

The first of its kind superconducting linear particle accelerator (LINAC) built for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now celebrating 10 years of successful operations.

Smallest. Transistor. Ever.

A research team led by faculty scientist Ali Javey at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has created a transistor with a working 1-nanometer gate. For comparison, a strand of human hair is about 50,000 nanometers thick.

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The Incredible Shrinking Particle Accelerator

WarpIV, a new data analysis/visualization toolkit developed at Berkeley Lab, is designed to help speed particle accelerator research and design by enabling in situ visualization and analysis of accelerator simulations at scale

Enhancing the Superconducting Properties of an Iron-Based Material

A team of scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory has come up with a way to double the amount of electrical current an iron-based material can carry without losing its superconducting properties, while increasing the material's critical temperature.

A Cooperative Way to Make Ammonia

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are gaining a better understanding of how bacteria fix nitrogen molecules into ammonia that could lead to energy savings in industrial processes such as those that produce fertilizer.

Brookhaven Lab to Play Major Role in Two DOE Exascale Computing Application Projects

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory will play major roles in two of the 15 fully funded application development proposals recently selected by the DOE's Exascale Computing Project (ECP) in its first-round funding of $39.8 million.

Water Vapor Sets Some Oxides Aflutter

A research team led by Yang Shao-Horn, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy at MIT, used a transmission electron microscope at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory, to discover a new phenomenon that could affect materials in batteries and water-splitting devices.

Transformational X-ray Project Takes a Step Forward

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has confirmed the need for a unique source of X-ray light that would produce beams up to 1,000 times brighter than are now possible at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab) Advanced Light Source (ALS), enabling new explorations of chemical reactions, battery performance, biological processes and exotic materials.

Physicists Quench Their Thirst for Modeling Superfluids

A multi-institution team lead by researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is using Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s supercomputer Titan to compare and corroborate experimental findings on the effects of extreme conditions on various materials’ properties and interactions.

Brookhaven Lab's National Synchrotron Light Source II Wins Project Management Institute 2016 Project of the Year Award

The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) project at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has been awarded the Project Management Institute's (PMI) prestigious Project of the Year Award.