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Platinum Catalyst Savings on Any Support
New, inexpensive, and more efficient industrial catalysts for fuel processing and chemical manufacture could emerge from new studies, carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source, into the different ways in which the active metal sites in a catalyst can be prepared when the catalyst metal is on an active or an inert support material.
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Novel Water-Removal Technique Boosts Performance of Carbon Nanomaterials
New research illuminating water’s critical role in forming catalysts for oxygen reduction in materials has revealed the key to designing next-generation carbon nanomaterials with enhanced performance for fuel cells and batteries.
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NSLS-II User Profiles: Pankaj Sarin
Pankaj Sarin, an assistant professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Oklahoma State University, traveled to Brookhaven Lab recently to conduct research at the X-Ray Powder Diffraction (XPD) beamline. He and his group studied ceramic materials that can withstand extremely high temperatures and may be used to protect spacecraft during re-entry, descent, and landing.
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Scientists Part the Clouds on How Droplets Form
Berkeley Lab researchers find new mechanism to explain the birth of cloud droplets, could influence climate models.
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FY 2017 Budget Request to Congress for DOE’s Office of Science
DOE Office of Science Director Cherry Murray presents the details of White House FY 2017 budget request at the March 23, 2016 NSAC Meeting.
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Unlocking the Secrets of Gene Expression
Using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientist Eva Nogales and her team have made a significant breakthrough in our understanding of how our molecular machinery finds the right DNA to copy, showing with unprecedented detail the role of a powerhouse transcription factor known as TFIID.
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Moving Microswimmers With Tiny Swirling Flows
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a way to use a microscopic swirling flow to rapidly clear a circle of tiny bacteria or swimming robots.
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PECASE Award-Winning Engineer Jennifer Reed Models Metabolism for Biofuels
In her lab at UW–Madison, Reed focuses on controlling thousands of reactions inside a cell by changing the genes that help produce a specific chemical.
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ORNL Researchers Invent Tougher Plastic With 50 Percent Renewable Content
New results may bring cleaner, cheaper raw materials to diverse manufacturers.
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Physicist Tyler Abrams Models Lithium Erosion in Tokamaks
Abrams conducted the research as a doctoral student in the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics substantially based at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).
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New Carbon Capture Membrane Boasts CO2 Highways
A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.
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Replacement for Silicon Devices Looms Big with ORNL Discovery
Two-dimensional electronic devices could inch closer to their ultimate promise of low power, high efficiency and mechanical flexibility with a processing technique developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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