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

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.

Boston College Chemist: Nano-Coatings Stabilize Carbon for Lithium-Air Batteries

Associate Professor of Chemistry Dunwei Wang has been developing materials that might one day enable the manufacture of new batteries capable of meeting power demands within the size and cost constraints of car makers and other industries.

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.

New Method Allows for Greater Variation in Band Gap Tunability

Northwestern University researchers discovered a novel way to control the electronic band gap in complex oxide materials without changing the material’s overall composition.

UCLA Chemists Devise Technology That Could Transform Solar Energy Storage

A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks — an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells.