Simulating Tropical Clouds and Precipitation in Climate Models
Cloud-resolving models have difficulty representing the array of processes and scales in tropical storms.
Cloud-resolving models have difficulty representing the array of processes and scales in tropical storms.
Microbial communities solve environmental contamination.
Snow reflects less solar radiation when contaminated with black carbon.
Novel material for purifying gases could significantly lower industrial energy costs.
Does polar ice erosion come from atmospheric heating or from oceanic advection of warm waters?
A single reversible catalyst enables energy to be both stored and released on demand.
New insights into metal ions at an enzyme’s active site.
New insights from synchrotron-based studies are helping to assess the potential of new biofuels.
Laboratory measurements of “carrier multiplication” verified in real solar energy photovoltaic devices made of tiny quantum dots.
A new spectroscopic “fingerprinting” technique has been developed at a DOE user facility to identify chemical degradation products deep inside a working rechargeable battery.
Predicted by theory, and confirmed by experiments, novel materials are being discovered to improve photovoltaic efficiency.
New approach to molecular self-assembly produces porous, thin films of carbon (aka graphene), enabling high-capacity electrodes for lithium-air batteries.