2017 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Muon Magnet’s Moment Has Arrived

A global team of more than 150 scientists and engineers, including a team from Michigan State University, will be part of the Muon g-2 experiment, located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Examining Exploding Stars Through the Atomic Nucleus

Michigan State University researchers investigated stellar production of the radioactive isotope aluminum-26 present in the Milky Way and concluded that up to 30 percent could be produced in novae; the rest must be produced in other sources like supernovae.

In a Possible Step Forward for Gene Therapy, Stanford Researchers Made Mice Glow Like Fireflies

A collaboration between chemists and gene therapy experts produced a new way of inserting the code for modified proteins into the cells of mice. If successful in humans, the technique could be useful for vaccines or cancer therapies.

Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Researchers at Pitt and Penn State Develop Controlled Delivery of Particles via Fluid Flow

Capitalizing on previous studies in self-powered chemo-mechanical movement, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering and Penn State University’s Department of Chemistry have developed a novel method of transporting particles that utilizes chemical reactions to drive fluid flow within microfluidic devices.

Bright Lights, Big Science: Joel Williams Helping Unleash Some of the World’s Brightest X-rays

Thanks to a DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research award, Joel Williams, a Colorado State University electrical engineering graduate student, is spending the next few months at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on the design of an X-ray free-electron laser.

Rice University Takes Deeper Look at Unconventional Oil and Gas

Rice engineers George Hirasaki and Walter Chapman are leading an effort to better characterize the contents of organic shale by combining standard nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) – the same technology used by hospitals to see inside human bodies – with molecular dynamics simulations.

Penn Researchers Are Among the First to Grow a Versatile Two-dimensional Material

University of Pennsylvania researchers are now among the first to produce a single, three-atom-thick layer of a unique two-dimensional material called tungsten ditelluride. Their findings have been published in 2-D Materials.

Scientists Discover New Helium Chemistry

An international team of researchers led by Skoltech’s Artem R. Oganov (also a professor at Stony Brook University and head of Computational Materials Discovery laboratory at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) has predicted two stable helium compounds—Na₂He and Na₂He O.

Husker Scientists Boost Performance of Emerging Nanomaterial

Scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Drexel University demonstrated that modifying the traditional method of synthesizing MXene sheets created defect-free flakes that were about 25 times larger, significantly more conductive, and far less susceptible to degradation.

Catalyzing Discovery

Researchers at the Energy Frontier Research Center’s (EFRC) Integrated Mesoscale Architectures for Sustainable Catalysis (IMASC) at Harvard have shown that the process of catalysis is more dynamic than previously imagined, and that molecular forces can vastly influence the process.

Paper Spotlights Key Flaw in Widely Used Radioisotope Dating Technique

An oversight in a radioisotope dating technique used to date everything from meteorites to geologic samples means that scientists have likely overestimated the age of many samples, according to new research from North Carolina State University.

Researchers Investigate Mechanics of Lithium Sulfides

For the first time, a team at MIT has probed the mechanical properties of a sulfide-based solid electrolyte material, to determine its mechanical performance when incorporated into batteries.