New Technique to Synthesize Nanostructured Nanowires
A new approach to self-assemble and tailor complex structures at the nanoscale, developed by an international collaboration led by the University of Cambridge and IBM, using the facilities at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials, opens opportunities to tailor properties and functionalities of materials for a wide range of semiconductor device applications.
Read more about New Technique to Synthesize Nanostructured NanowiresPerovskite Solar Technology Shows Quick Energy Returns
A joint study by Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University found that perovskite-based solar technology has the quickest energy payback time of all current solar technologies.
Read more about Perovskite Solar Technology Shows Quick Energy ReturnsScientists Hijack Light-Loving Bacteria to Make High-Value Products
Scientists at PNNL and the Colorado School of Mines have directed a common bacterium to produce more of a valuable fatty acid, lauric acid, than it typically does.
Read more about Scientists Hijack Light-Loving Bacteria to Make High-Value ProductsHow Clouds Get Their Brightness
Scientists at Pacific Northwest and Los Alamos national laboratories, along with colleagues at the University of Leeds and the University of Washington, show that marine life cultivates half of the summer cloud droplets over the Southern Ocean.
Read more about How Clouds Get Their BrightnessUnearthing Cornerstones in Root Microbiomes
Scientists from the University of North Carolina, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and DOE’s Joint Genome Institute are developing a better understanding of the soil microbes that important for plant growth, and of how they interact through a variety of signals, including regulatory chemicals called phytohormones.
Read more about Unearthing Cornerstones in Root MicrobiomesA Most Singular Nano-Imaging Technique
Berkeley Lab’s SINGLE provides images of individual nanoparticles in solution.
Read more about A Most Singular Nano-Imaging TechniqueCloser Look at Microorganism Provides Insight on Carbon Cycling
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee found that microorganisms called archaea living in marine sediments use completely novel enzymes to break down organic matter into carbon dioxide.
Read more about Closer Look at Microorganism Provides Insight on Carbon CyclingAir Pollution Amplified Extreme Weather, Floods in China
Following the trail of the 2013 Sichuan flood in southwest China, researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and their collaborators found that heavy human-caused air pollution over the Sichuan Basin just upwind contributed to the catastrophic flood.
Read more about Air Pollution Amplified Extreme Weather, Floods in ChinaGut Microbes Enable Coffee Pest to Withstand Extremely Toxic Concentrations of Caffeine
Research by Berkeley Lab and the U.S. Department of Agriculture could lead to new ways to fight beetle that devastates coffee crops worldwide.
Read more about Gut Microbes Enable Coffee Pest to Withstand Extremely Toxic Concentrations of CaffeineBlazing Trails at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)
New video gives an inside look at how scientists are using the CFN’s state-of-the-art facilities to explore phenomena hidden on the nanoscale.
Read more about Blazing Trails at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)When Electrons Cooperate
University of Illinois physicists apply supercomputing to explore unconventional, high-temperature superconductivity
Read more about When Electrons CooperateNew Design Could Dramatically Boost Efficiency of Low-Cost Solar Panels
X-ray studies at SLAC's synchrotron pave the way for better methods to convert sunlight to electricity
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