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Leah Broussard: Breaking the Standard Model to Fix Understanding of the Universe
Leah Broussard, a physicist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has so much fun exploring the neutron that she alternates between calling it her “laboratory” and “playground” for understanding the universe.
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Potential New Way to Boost Biofuels and Bioproducts Production
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have gained insight into the primary process by which all cells harness energy, known as cellular respiration, of E. coli bacteria and a species of yeast, each of which are common hosts for biofuels and bioproducts.
Read more about Potential New Way to Boost Biofuels and Bioproducts Production![This shows a) Chinese ink and writing brush, similar to those used for writing and drawing for over 2000 years, b) digital and infrared images of the Chinese character “water” written in Chinese ink under simulated sunlight and c) a scheme of the fabrication process for ALD/Chinese‐ink‐coated materials. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/Chinese-ink-Feature-1600x900_0.jpg?h=900&w=1600&la=en&hash=40A41B0D47CA1C74F1C024598A9EB4300530A55F2DEACF9B8AC3F3E9DC1CF08E)
Why the Future of Water Purification May Involve Chinese Ink
A substance developed thousands of years ago could help accelerate solutions to the world’s freshwater crisis.
Read more about Why the Future of Water Purification May Involve Chinese Ink![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Ryan Hadt, along with other Argonne chemists Dugan Hayes and Lin Chen, worked with Daniel Nocera from Harvard University to understand one step of the water-splitting reaction in a promising catalyst.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/blog-cobalt-catalyst-112818-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=2A116882FDA1AFF24B535205B812F9017B2FE98C38F8282E521032DE4609F098)
Capturing a Snapshot of a Complex Catalyst
When looking to understand how a promising catalyst splits water, scientists got more than they expected.
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'Magnetic Topological Insulator' Makes its Own Magnetic Field
A team of U.S. and Korean physicists has found the first evidence of a two-dimensional material that can become a magnetic topological insulator even when it is not placed in a magnetic field.
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Light-Activated, Single-Ion Catalyst Breaks Down Carbon Dioxide
A team of scientists has discovered a single-site, visible-light-activated catalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into “building block” molecules that could be used for creating useful chemicals. The discovery opens the possibility of using sunlight to turn a greenhouse gas into hydrocarbon fuels.
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Funding: Department of Energy to Provide $24 Million for Computer-Based Materials Design
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $24 million in new and renewal research awards to advance the development of sophisticated software for computer-based design of novel materials.
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Jibo Sanyal: Connecting Leadership Science to Real-world Impact
Since joining ORNL in 2011, Sanyal has been a postdoc, staff scientist and team lead for Scalable and High Performance Geocomputation. Today, he is acting leader of the Computational Urban Sciences group in ORNL’s Computational Sciences and Engineering Division.
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Meet NSLS-II's Tom Caswell: Lead Developer of Matplotlib
Computational scientist Tom Caswell is helping to solve one of today’s biggest challenges in science: how to collect, manage, and analyze big data. Based at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Caswell’s task is to streamline data acquisition at the National Synchrotron Light Source II—a DOE Office of Science User Facility that is one of the most advanced light sources in the world.
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Hidden Giants in Forest Soils
Giant virus genomes have been discovered for the first time in a forest soil ecosystem by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass Amherst).
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Argonne Adapting Continuous Flow Processing to Complex Nanomaterials to Reduce Manufacturing Costs
Argonne ‘s Advanced Synthesis in Continuous Flow Reactor program applies powerful analysis and characterization tools to understand processes at the atomic level to advance manufacturing of fine chemicals and nanosized materials.
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UEC Profile: ‘An ARM Loyalist’
As a graduate student, Pavlos Kollias discovered the allure of millimeter cloud radar, a specialty that he says put him ‘among great minds.’
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