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Ames Laboratory Physicists Discover New Type of Material That May Speed Computing
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered a topological metal, PtSn4 (platinum and tin), with a unique electronic structure that may someday lead to energy efficient computers with increased processor speeds and data storage.
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Connect the Dots: Harvesting the Power of the Sun
Research demonstrates promise of a new approach for improving solar cells, photocatalysts, light sensors, and other optical devices.
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Multiyear Simulation Study Provides Breakthrough in Membrane Protein Research
The research team of Benoît Roux, a professor in the University of Chicago’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a senior scientist in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory Center for Nanoscale Materials recently concluded a three-year Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) project at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, to understand how P-type ATPase ion pumps—an important class of membrane transport proteins—operate.
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New Magnetism Research Brings High-Temp Superconductivity Applications Closer
A research team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory has discovered that only half the atoms in some iron-based superconductors are magnetic, providing a conclusive demonstration of the wave-like properties of metallic magnetism in these materials.
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ORNL Neutron ‘Splashes’ Reveal Signature of Exotic Particles
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutrons to uncover novel behavior in materials that holds promise for quantum computing.
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ORNL Tracks How Halogen Atoms Compete to Grow ‘Winning’ Perovskites
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a potential path to further improve solar cell efficiency by understanding the competition among halogen atoms during the synthesis of sunlight-absorbing crystals.
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Microbes Take Center Stage in Workings of 'The River's Liver'
Scientists explore climate impact as rivers ebb and flow.
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Plastic Proteins: New Synthetic Material Mimics Essential Characteristics of Natural Proteins
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory hoping to design new materials for energy uses have developed a system to make synthetic polymers — some would say plastics — with the versatility of nature's own polymers, the ubiquitous proteins.
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Chalice Receptors Attract Metal Contaminants with New Chemical Selectivity
Recently, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found new ways to influence selectivity for specific positively charged ions (cations) with the addition of simple receptors, not for cations but rather for negatively charged ions (anions).
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PPPL Scientists Help Test Innovative Device to Improve Efficiency of Tokamaks
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have helped design and test a component that could improve the performance of doughnut-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks.
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Scientists Study the Insulator-Superconductor Transition of Copper-Oxide Compound in Fine Detail
Using a highly controlled deposition technique, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have synthesized ultrathin films containing multiple samples of a copper-oxide compound to study the compound's electronic behavior at near absolute zero, or minus 459 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Champions in Science Whose Stars are Still Rising: Profile of Julia Hu
For the run-up to the 2016 National Science Bowl® Finals April 28th to May 2nd, this is the first in a series on previous NSB competitors.
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