2015

Researchers Identify Materials to Improve Biofuel and Petroleum Processing

Using one of the largest supercomputers in the world, a team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota has identified potential materials that could improve the production of ethanol and petroleum products

Evidence Mounts for Quantum Criticality Theory

A new study by a team of physicists at Rice University bolster theory that quantum fluctuations drive strange electronic phenomena.

Department of Energy Approves $1.1 Million to Fund Underground Physics Research at SD Mines

The DOE’s Office of High Energy Physics announced the award recommendation as part of its Cosmic Frontier and Intensity Frontier research programs.

New 'Designer Carbon' from Stanford Boosts Battery Performance

Stanford scientists have created a new carbon material that significantly improves the performance of batteries and supercapacitors.

Researchers Simulate Scattering of Helium Nuclei within Stars

A team of researchers, including NC State physicist Dean Lee, used lattice simulations and a theoretical framework called chiral effective field theory to describe the low-energy interactions of protons and neutrons, leading to improved calculations to describe how nature produces elements.

Benedictine University Professor’s Egg Research Hatches New Discoveries on Environmental Change

Benedict University professor Monica Tischler is investigating 150 year-old bird eggs at the Advanced Photon Source, using advanced X-ray equipment to detect metals and inorganic pollutants.

Department of Energy Creates Center for Computational Materials at Argonne

The center is headquartered at Argonne, which is managed by UChicago Argonne LLC, with co-investigators from several universities, including the University of Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame, the University of Michigan and University of California, Davis.

Aluminum-Atom Coating Could Revive Lithium Anodes' Use

Researchers University of Maryland’s Department of Materials Science and the Institute for Systems Research have found a way to coat corrosive but highly energetic lithium metal anodes with an atoms-thick layer of alumina to make lithium-ion batteries last longer.

Caltech Announces Discovery in Fundamental Physics

Researchers at Caltech University, University of Chicago, and the Argonne National Laboratory recently used a synchrotron X-ray source to investigate the existence of instabilities in the arrangement of the electrons in metals, and to pinpoint, for the first time, how those instabilities arise.