New Los Alamos Approach May be Key to Quantum Dot Solar Cells with Real Gains in Efficiency
Researchers have demonstrated an almost four-fold boost of the carrier multiplication yield with nanoengineered quantum dots.
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Winter's Over & It's Time to Grow Again--How Does a Tree Know?
A team led by molecular geneticists from Michigan Technological University has identified and characterized a gene that tells a poplar tree when winter ends and a spring growing season begins.
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Dynamic Spectroscopy Duo
2D electronic-vibrational spectroscopy technique provides unprecedented look into photochemical reactions.
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DOE Awards $100 Million for Innovative Energy Research
WASHINGTON – U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today announced the awarding of $100 million for Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build the 21st-century energy economy.
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Vast Data Collections for Complex Climate Systems: Meet Alice Cialetta
Rising sea levels, more frequent heat waves, and heavy precipitation are just some of the effects associated with climate change. Meet Brookhaven Lab's Alice Cialella, who with her team keeps track of data climate scientists use to accurately forecast what Earth's climate will be like years from now.
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Eucalyptus—A Global Tree for Fuel and Fiber
A group of researchers inluding Oak Ridge National Laboratory and U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) are seeking to harness and improve upon Eucalyptus’ potential for enhancing sustainable biofuels and biomaterials production, and provide a stable year-round source of biomass that doesn’t compete with food crops.
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Manipulating and Detecting Ultrahigh Frequency Sound Waves
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated a technique for producing, detecting and controlling ultrahigh frequency sound waves at the nanometer scale.
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Protein Could Put Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs in Handcuffs
A team from Duke and the University of Sydney in Australia has solved the structure of a key protein that drives DNA copying in the plasmids that make staphylococcus bacteria antibiotic-resistant.
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Retracing Citrus’ Earliest Roots to Find Clues for Healthier Future
University of Florida scientists led an international research team that analyzed the genome sequences of 10 diverse citrus varieties for the first time. Their findings, published online Sunday by the journal Nature Biotechnology, could help the citrus industry find and deploy genes for resistance to citrus greening, a bacterial infection devastating crops in North America.
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PPPL Receives $4.3 Million to Increase Understanding of the Role that Plasma Plays in Synthesizing Nanoparticles
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has received $4.3 million of DOE funding, over three years, to develop an increased understanding of the role of plasma in the synthesis of nanoparticles.
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More Than Just A Hill of Beans
Researchers at the Joint Genome Institute, the University of Georgia, and North Dakota State University sequence and analyze the genome of the common bean, which may improve both food security and the sustainability of bioenergy crops.
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Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) Spotlights the University Users of its Neutron Sciences Facilities
Researchers at the University of Houston, Penn State, Princeton University and Georgia Tech are using ORNL’s facility for studying everything from polymer micelles to carbon dioxide capture and storage.
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