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

New Approach to Microlasers

Researchers at MIT and Sandia National Laboratories describe a new way to build terahertz lasers that could significantly reduce their power consumption and size, while also enabling them to emit tighter beams, a crucial requirement for most practical applications.

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Discovery of Gold Nanocluster “Double” Hints at Other Shape Changing Particles

Polymorphs, or materials with the same composition but different structures, are common in bulk materials, and now researchers at Columbia University confirm they exist in nanomaterials, too.

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.

To Infinity and Beyond with Nanosatellites

Moving a nanosatellite around in space takes only a tiny amount of thrust. Engineers from Michigan Technological University and the University of Maryland teamed up, put a nanoscale rocket under a microscope, and watched what happened.

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.

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.

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.

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.