New Magnetism Research Brings High-Temp Superconductivity Applications Closer
A research team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory has discovered that only half the atoms in some iron-based superconductors are magnetic, providing a conclusive demonstration of the wave-like properties of metallic magnetism in these materials.
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ORNL Tracks How Halogen Atoms Compete to Grow ‘Winning’ Perovskites
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a potential path to further improve solar cell efficiency by understanding the competition among halogen atoms during the synthesis of sunlight-absorbing crystals.
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Plastic Proteins: New Synthetic Material Mimics Essential Characteristics of Natural Proteins
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory hoping to design new materials for energy uses have developed a system to make synthetic polymers — some would say plastics — with the versatility of nature's own polymers, the ubiquitous proteins.
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Chalice Receptors Attract Metal Contaminants with New Chemical Selectivity
Recently, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found new ways to influence selectivity for specific positively charged ions (cations) with the addition of simple receptors, not for cations but rather for negatively charged ions (anions).
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PPPL Scientists Help Test Innovative Device to Improve Efficiency of Tokamaks
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have helped design and test a component that could improve the performance of doughnut-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks.
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Scientists Study the Insulator-Superconductor Transition of Copper-Oxide Compound in Fine Detail
Using a highly controlled deposition technique, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have synthesized ultrathin films containing multiple samples of a copper-oxide compound to study the compound's electronic behavior at near absolute zero, or minus 459 degrees Fahrenheit.
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NREL Reveals Potential for Capturing Waste Heat via Nanotubes
A finely tuned carbon nanotube thin film has the potential to act as a thermoelectric power generator that captures and uses waste heat, according to researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
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Tiny Tubes Move Into the Fast Lane
For the first time, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have shown that carbon nanotubes as small as eight-tenths of a nanometer in diameter can transport protons faster than bulk water, by an order of magnitude.
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Boosting Production of Radioisotopes for Diagnostics and Therapeutics
The DOE Office of Science’s Nuclear Physics Isotope Development and Production for Research and Applications program (DOE Isotope Program) seeks to make critical isotopes more readily available for energy, medical, and national security applications and for basic research.
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Proving the Genetic Code’s Flexibility
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and Yale University show deviations in an amino acid’s code can occur naturally.
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What are Aerosols?
Scientists at Brookhaven National Lab are studying the tiny particles – from man-made and natural sources – to understand the big impact aerosols have on Earth’s climate system.
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From Near-Dropout to PhD, Berkeley Lab Scientist Now at Forefront of Biofuels Revolution
Berkeley Lab biochemist Ee-Been Goh focuses on engineering E. coli bacteria to produce the compound - methyl ketones - for possible biodiesel fuel use and on mentoring future generations of researchers.
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