Better Living Through Pressure: Functional Nanomaterials Made Easy
Using pressure instead of chemicals, a Sandia National Laboratories team has fabricated nanoparticles into nanowire-array structures similar to those that underlie the surfaces of touch-screens for sensors, computers, phones and TVs.
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An international team of scientists, including one from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has found that up to 20 percent loss in the annual maximum amount of water contained in the Western United States' mountain snowpack in the last three decades is due to human influence.
Read more about Study on Impact of Climate Change on SnowpackDustin Leverman: A Unique Route to HPC Systems
Leverman is the HPC storage system administrator for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at ORNL. He spends his days assisting users with performance problems and ensuring reliability of the day-to-day operations of the file system, which contains information generated by the OLCF’s flagship supercomputer, Titan.
Read more about Dustin Leverman: A Unique Route to HPC SystemsTweaking a Molecule's Structure Can Send it Down a Different Path to Crystallization
Insights into crystallization pathways gained by scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory could eventually design of a variety of products with more predictive control over the design and assembly of biomimetic materials.
Read more about Tweaking a Molecule's Structure Can Send it Down a Different Path to CrystallizationHow X-rays Pushed Topological Matter Research Over the Top
While using X-rays generated by the Advanced Light Source (ALS), a synchrotron facility at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), to study a bismuth-containing thermoelectric material that can convert heat into electricity, physicist M. Zahid Hasan of Princeton University spawned a revolution in materials research.
Read more about How X-rays Pushed Topological Matter Research Over the TopChampions in Science: Profile of Zach Teitler
For the run-up to the 2017 National Science Bowl® Finals April 27 to May 1, this is the last profile in a series on previous NSB competitors.
Read more about Champions in Science: Profile of Zach TeitlerResearchers Resolve Key Question on Titanium Oxide, Water Interactions
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have determined that water is only slightly more likely to stay in one piece as it binds to the catalyst surface than it is to form the hydroxyl pairs.
Read more about Researchers Resolve Key Question on Titanium Oxide, Water InteractionsQ&A with CFN Scientist Qin Wu
Applying his theoretical chemistry expertise and using advanced software and high-performance computing, Wu examines the structural and dynamic properties of molecules.
Read more about Q&A with CFN Scientist Qin WuLArIAT Upgrade Will Test DUNE Design
In particle physics, the difference of a millimeter or two can make or break an experiment. In March, the LArIAT experiment began a proof-of-concept test to make sure the planned Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will work well with that 2-millimeter difference.
Read more about LArIAT Upgrade Will Test DUNE DesignSelf-Assembling Polymers Provide Thin Nanowire Template
A team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory (DOE), the University of Chicago, and MIT has developed a new way to create some of the world’s thinnest wires, using a process that could enable mass manufacturing with standard types of equipment.
Read more about Self-Assembling Polymers Provide Thin Nanowire TemplateNew SLAC Theory Institute Aims to Speed Research on Exotic Materials at Light Sources
A new institute at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is using the power of theory to search for new types of materials that could revolutionize society – by making it possible, for instance, to transmit electricity over power lines with no loss.
Read more about New SLAC Theory Institute Aims to Speed Research on Exotic Materials at Light SourcesHow Berkelium Stands Out in a Heavy Metal Crowd
Using several spectroscopic techniques, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) found that the element berkelium breaks form with its heavy element peers by taking on an extra positive charge when bound to a synthetic organic molecule.
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