2015 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Physicists Trace Origin of Electromagnetic Interaction to Dirac Equation

An international group of physicists has traced the origin of an electromagnetic interaction to the Dirac equation, a fundamental equation of quantum physics.

New Technique Removes Defects While Keeping Materials Strong

An international team of researchers, including Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a new technique called cyclic healing that uses repetitive, gentle stretching to eliminate pre-existing defects in metal crystals.

Big Range of Behaviors for Tiny Graphene Pores

Researchers at MIT have created tiny pores in single sheets of graphene that have an array of preferences and characteristics similar to those of ion channels in living cells.

World’s Largest Atom Smashers Create World’s Smallest Droplets

As part of the Large Hadron Collider’s CMS detector team, Professor of Physics Julia Velkovska, post-doctoral fellow Shenguan Tuo and Research Assistant Professor Shengli Huang at Vanderbilt University have been in the middle of the creation of tiny, ephemeral drops of quark-gluon plasma (QGP).

Eight Members Join Argonne Board of Governors

In the past year, eight distinguished leaders with deep collective expertise in bioscience, communications, energy, engineering, government, physical sciences and technology have joined the UChicago Argonne, LLC Board of Governors.

Is Your Digital Information More at Risk Today Than a Decade Ago?

According to researchers at the University of New Mexico and Berkley Lab, data breaches, in general, are not growing in size.

Single Atom Alloy Platinum-Copper Catalysts Cut Costs, Boost Green Technology

A new generation of platinum-copper catalysts that require very low concentrations of platinum in the form of individual atoms to cleanly and cheaply perform important chemical reactions is reported today by Tufts University researchers in the journal Nature Communications.

Caution: Shrinks When Warm

Most materials swell when they warm, and shrink when they cool. But UConn physicist Jason Hancock has been investigating a substance that responds in reverse: it shrinks when it warms.

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President Obama Names UCLA Physicist Claudio Pellegrini Recipient of Enrico Fermi Award

President Barack Obama today named UCLA physicist Claudio Pellegrini as a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award, a Presidential Award and one of the government’s oldest and most prestigious awards for scientific achievement.

UH Researchers Devise New Formula to Speed Development of Modern Materials

Researchers from the University of Houston have devised a new formula for calculating the maximum efficiency of thermoelectric materials, the first new formula in more than a half-century, designed to speed up the development of new materials suitable for practical use.

New Manufacturing Approach Slices Lithium-ion Battery Cost in Half

An advanced manufacturing approach for lithium-ion batteries, developed by researchers at MIT and at a spinoff company called 24M, promises to significantly slash the cost of the most widely used type of rechargeable batteries while also improving their performance and making them easier to recycle.

UCLA Researchers Develop Lower-Cost, More Efficient Nanostructure for Fuel Cells

A team led by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has developed nanostructures made from a compound of three metals that increases the efficiency and durability of fuel cells while lowering the cost to produce them.