2016 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Penn Chemists Establish Fundamentals of Ferroelectric Materials

Chemists from the University of Pennsylvania are enabling the next generation of research into ferroelectric materials by providing a new understanding about what it takes for polarizations within these materials to switch.

Unique Bacterial Chemist in the War on Potatoes

Researchers at Georgia Tech have found potato bacteria could be used to rescue crops and degrade pollutants.

Researchers Discover More Efficient Way to Split Water, Produce Hydrogen

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology has reported a more efficient catalyst, using molybdenum sulfoselenide particles on three-dimensional porous nickel diselenide foam to increase catalytic activity.

Shaking a Sleeping Bog Monster

Microbiologists at Georgia Tech are working at The Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Climatic and Environmental Change (SPRUCE) experiment as part of a major research project with the goal of understanding how the ecosystem may respond to climate change.

UM Researchers Study Vast Carbon Residue of Ocean Life

Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science used data collected over the past 15 years to advance the understanding of massive ocean carbon reservoir and its impact to marine food web.

OU Researchers Develop Novel, Non-Invasive Cancer Therapy Using Targeted Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

The University of Oklahoma photothermal therapy is most effective against shallow or surface tumors in breast, bladder, esophageal and melanoma cancers, without the adverse side effects of chemotherapy, radiation or surgery.

Finding Ideal Materials for Carbon Capture

A group of engineers at Northwestern University have discovered a way to rapidly identify top candidates for carbon capture — using just 1 percent of the computational effort that was previously required.

A Promising Step Toward Controlling Zika Virus and Dengue Fever

Five UCLA researchers were part of an international team that has used X-rays to reveal the structure of a molecule that that kills mosquitoes carrying malaria and West Nile.

New Agreement with National Lab Opens Doors for UO Scientists

A new agreement between the University of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, will allow scientists to obtain joint appointments that bridge the two research institutions.

UMass Amherst Research to Investigate Soil Microbes’ Role in Carbon Cycle

Microbiologist Kristen DeAngelis at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently was awarded two grants totaling about $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to advance understanding of the role of soil microbes in feeding carbon into the atmosphere and contributing to global warming.

New Record for Fusion

A team of scientists and engineers at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center set a new world record for plasma pressure in the Institute’s Alcator C-Mod tokamak nuclear fusion reactor on the final day of operation.

Robert Harrison Named Chief Architect of DOE National Project to Bolster High-Performance Computing for Energy Applications

Robert Harrison, Director of Stony Brook University’s Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS), has been named the chief architect of a national effort funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to improve the scale, performance, accessibility and portability of high-performance computational chemistry.