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Room To Move: Spacing Graphite Layers Makes a Better Battery Anode

In a paper published in the June 4 issue of Nature Communications, University of Maryland professors Chunsheng Wang and John Cumings explain how a modified version of a Li-ion battery anode could allow manufacturers to replace the lithium with a more common element.

Evolution of a Bimetallic Nanocatalyst

A multi-national lab collaboration led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has taken the most detailed look ever at the evolution of platinum/cobalt bimetallic nanoparticles during reactions in oxygen and hydrogen gases.

Ionic Liquid Boosts Efficiency of CO₂ Reduction Catalyst

Promising approach for converting abundant gas to building blocks for liquid fuels and other useful chemicals.

MINOS Result Narrows Field for Sterile Neutrinos

Data collected at the long-running MINOS experiment stacks evidence against the existence of these theoretical particles.

Self-assembling Nanomachines Start to Click

A nanocage builds itself from engineered components.

Scientists Find Stronger 3-D Material that Behaves Like Graphene

Researchers from Oxford, SIMES and Berkeley Lab say cadmium arsenide could yield practical devices with the same extraordinary electronic properties as 2-D graphene.

2D Transistors Promise a Faster Electronics Future

Faster electronic device architectures are in the offing with the unveiling of the world’s first fully two-dimensional field-effect transistor (FET) by researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

University of Pittsburgh Researchers First to Detect Exciton in Metal

Team gives a microscopic quantum mechanical description of how light excites electrons in metals.

A new heart for the ATLAS detector

US scientists collaborated with an international team to install a new component in the core of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

New UGA Research Engineers Microbes for the Direct Conversion of Biomass to Fuel

The promise of affordable transportation fuels from biomass-a sustainable, carbon neutral route to American energy independence-has been left perpetually on hold by the economics of the conversion process. New research from the University of Georgia has overcome this hurdle allowing the direct conversion of switchgrass to fuel.

JCAP Stabilizes Common Semiconductors For Solar Fuels Generation

Caltech researchers devise a method to protect the materials in a solar-fuel generator.

A Path Toward More Powerful Tabletop Accelerators

Laser light needn’t be as precise as previously thought to drive new breed of miniature particle accelerators, say Berkeley Lab researchers.