An Accelerated Pipeline to Open Materials Research
ORNL software engineers led the development of a software platform that combines the lab’s state-of-the art imaging technologies with advanced data analytics and high-performance computing to accelerate materials science research, reducing data analysis from months to hours, and creating feedback to fine-tune simulations.
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Newly Discovered Material Property May Lead to High Temp Superconductivity
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory have discovered an unusual property of purple bronze that may point to new ways to achieve high temperature superconductivity.
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Scientists Harness CO2 to Consolidate Biofuel Production Process
Technique developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) working at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) controls toxicity of ionic liquids that could lower cost by recycling key ingredient.
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Scientists Create New Thin Material That Mimics Cell Membranes
Materials scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have created a new material that performs like a cell membrane found in nature. Such a material has long been sought for applications as varied as water purification and drug delivery.
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New Training Videos Leverage ESnet’s Expertise to Improve Network Performance around the World
The Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network, or ESnet, and the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) at the University of Oregon are teaming up to create an extensive video training library to help organizations improve the performance of their networks by deploying the perfSONAR network measurement tools and the Science DMZ network architecture.
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Comparing Fungal Secretions to Uncover Carbon Compound Degradation Pathways
A team led by researchers at Harvard University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) conducted a comparative analysis of the secretomes of four recently-isolated and sequenced filamentous Ascomycete fungi to learn more about the variety of pathways they deploy to break down carbon compounds.
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New ORNL Tool Probes for Genes Linked to Toxic Methylmercury
Environmental scientists can more efficiently detect genes required to convert mercury in the environment into more toxic methylmercury with molecular probes developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Scientists Determine Structure of Enzyme Linked with Key Cell-Signaling Protein
Findings aid understanding of how modifications to cell-signaling protein affect its action in turning genes on and off; could also point to new targets for drugs to fight cancer.
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Energy Department Awards $40 Million for Research to Support Waste Cleanup at DOE Nuclear Sites
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today announced up to $40 million in awards for four new Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to support the Department of Energy (DOE)’s environmental management and nuclear cleanup mission.
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PPPL Launches Expanded New Laboratory for Research on the Use of Plasma to Synthesize Nanoparticles
The collaborative facility, called the “Laboratory for Plasma Nanosynthesis,” is nearly three times the size of the original nanolab(link is external), which remains in operation, and launches a new era in PPPL research on plasma nanosynthesis
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Directed Matter
Additive manufacturing techniques featuring atomic precision could one day create materials with Legos flexibility and Terminator toughness, according to researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Scientists Optimize Defects for Better Superconducting Effects
In a new study, researchers at Argonne have developed a rational approach to optimizing the arrangement of defects in commercial high-temperature superconducting wires to enhance their current-carrying capacity.
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