2014 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Oxides Discovered by CCNY Team Could Advance Memory Devices

Researchers at The City College of New York led by chemist Stephen O’Brien have discovered new complex oxides that exhibit both magnetic and ferroelectric properties.

Sparkling Threads With Exceptional Properties

Penn State University researchers create super-strong, super-thin diamond nanothreads.

UChicago-Argonne National Lab Team Improves Solar-cell Efficiency

Researchers identified a new polymer—a type of large molecule that forms plastics and other familiar materials—that improved the efficiency of solar cells.

Graphene Flaws Key to Creating Hypersensitive ‘Electronic Nose’

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a way to create a highly sensitive chemical sensor based on the crystalline flaws in graphene sheets.

Angles and Athletes

University of Vermont researchers look at the relationship between joint geometry and the risk of knee injury.

Newly Discovered Microbe Is Key in Climate Change

Research led by University of Arizona scientists, shows that a single species of microbe, discovered only recently, is an unexpected key player in climate change.

Researchers Develop World’s Thinnest Electric Generator

Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a unique electric generator, which could open the door to mechanosensation devices that are optically transparent, extremely light, and very bendable and stretchable.

Microscopic “Walkers” Find Their Way Across Cell Surfaces

Technology could provide a way to deliver probes or drugs to cell structures without outside guidance.

Stanford Researchers Create 'Evolved' Protein That May Stop Cancer From Spreading

Experimental therapy stopped the metastasis of breast and ovarian cancers in lab mice, pointing toward a safe and effective alternative to chemotherapy.

Deceptive-looking Vortex Line in Superfluid Led to Twice-mistaken Identity

University of Chicago physicists have shown that a group of scientists were incorrect when they concluded that a mysterious effect found in superfluids indicated the presence of solitons—exotic, solitary waves.

IU Physics Team Receives $1.2 million to Help Build Most Precise Particle Detector

Team will help develop a new, highly precise particle detector that will be used to investigate the fundamental properties of elementary particles.

Phosphorus a Promising Semiconductor

Rice University physicists find
2-D form pays no heed to defects.