Newly Discovered ‘Design Rule’ Brings Nature-Inspired Nanostructures One Step Closer
Computer sims and microscopy research at Berkeley Lab yield first atomic-resolution structure of a peptoid nanosheet.
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Neutrons Help Understand Enzymes That Could Produce Improvements in Biomass Processing
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using neutron crystallography to understand enzymes and learn how to bioengineer those enzymes for large-scale improvements in the efficiency of biomass processing.
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Way Cheaper Catalyst May Lower Fuel Costs for Hydrogen-Powered Cars
Sandia National Laboratories researchers seeking to make hydrogen a less expensive fuel for cars have upgraded a catalyst nearly as cheap as dirt — molybdenum disulfide, “molly” for short — to stand in for platinum, a rare element with the moonlike price of $1,500 a gram.
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DOE Creates New Center for Computational Materials at Argonne
The revolution of computational materials design is in the making, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has taken a firm step toward achieving it by creating the Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials (MICCoM) at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory.
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Not Shaken, Not Stirred: New Molecular Modeling Techniques for Catalysis in Unmixed Systems
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have developed molecular modeling simulations and new theoretical formulations to help understand and optimize catalytic reactions that take place in chemical environments where the reactant “ingredients” for catalysis are not well mixed.
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Brookhaven Lab's Links to 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics
Brookhaven scientists contributed to both Nobel-recognized experiments demonstrating that neutrinos change flavors, part of the Lab's legacy of groundbreaking neutrino research.
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New Argonne Centers Connect Business with Energy Storage and Nanotechnology Research
Argonne National Laboratory has created two new collaborative centers that provide an innovative pathway for business and industry to access Argonne's unparalleled scientific resources to address the nation's energy and national security needs.
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DOE Announces Funding for New Center for Computational Materials Sciences at Brookhaven Lab
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $12 million in funding over the next four years for a new Center for Computational Design of Functional Strongly Correlated Materials and Theoretical Spectroscopy at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Rutgers University.
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Icy Arctic Proves Hot for Climate Data
In June 2015, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility launched the ARM Airborne Carbon Measurement V (ARM-ACME V), an aerial campaign focused on capturing data from the sky to better understand warming in the Arctic did a sixteen-week data collection campaign, now scientists are ready to explore their data.
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ESnet Releases Open Source Software from MyESnet Portal for Building Online Interactive Network Portals
On Monday, October 5th, ESnet will release open source versions of its popular software that enables researchers and educators to monitor and diagram their networks, as well as represent that information in a unified time series.
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Powering the Future with Solar Energy
The Energy Frontier Research Centers’ (EFRCs’) Autumn newsletter looks at the unique approaches different EFRCs are taking to understand basic science and thereby improve solar energy technologies.
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Ames National Laboratory Scientists Create an All-Organic UV On-Chip Spectrometer
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory has developed a near ultra-violet and all-organic light emitting diode (OLED) that can be used as an on-chip photosensor.
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