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

A Big Leap Toward Tinier Lines

A team of researchers at MIT and in Chicago have created a self-assembly technique that could lead to long-awaited, simple method for making smaller microchip patterns.

Plant Cell Walls' Stretch-But-Don't-Break Growth More Complex than Once Thought

A close-up look at the growth of plant cell walls, which largely determines the way a plant grows and takes shape, offers a better understanding of how the tough-but-flexible walls expand, researchers have found in a recent study.

UCI’s New 2-D Materials Conduct Electricity Near the Speed of Light

Physicists at the University of California, Irvine and elsewhere have fabricated new two-dimensional materials with breakthrough electrical and magnetic attributes that could make them building blocks of future quantum computers and other advanced electronics.

Stanford Scientists Test Links Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change

Stanford Professor Noah Diffenbaugh and his research group have developed a framework for testing whether global warming has contributed to particular extreme weather events.

Rice Graduate Student Earns Department of Energy Honor

Andrea Miranda, a Rice University doctoral candidate, is one of 52 nationwide selected by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science to participate in its graduate student research program.

Learning from Photosynthesis

A new study, from Hao Yan and Neal Woodbury from ASU’s Biodesign Institute and colleagues from Harvard and MIT, outlines the design of a synthetic system for energy gathering, conversion and transport that may point the way to innovations in solar energy, materials science, nanotechnology and photonics

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Real-Time Scans of Self-Healing Nanoparticles Show their Energy Storage Potential

Through long shifts at the helm of a highly sophisticated microscope, researchers at Stanford University recorded reactions at near-atomic-scale resolution.

Groundbreaking Marks Next Step in IU Physicists' Efforts Toward Creating a 'Supernova Detector'

If a star blows up anywhere in our galaxy, Indiana University-developed technology may one day directly measure particles from the explosion -- as well as detect the event faster than a telescope.

Computer Chip Technology Repurposed for Making Reflective Nanostructures

A team of engineers at Caltech has discovered how to use computer-chip manufacturing technologies to create the kind of reflective materials that make safety vests, running shoes, and road signs appear shiny in the dark.

Stanford Scientists Discover How Dense, Extraterrestrial Ice Can Form in Just Billionths of a Second

Stanford researchers have for the first time captured the freezing of water, molecule-by-molecule, into a strange, dense form called ice VII (“ice seven”), found naturally in otherworldly environments, such as when icy planetary bodies collide.

Squeezing Oil Out of Plants and Into Your Gas Tank: It's Hard.

When the Benning lab at Michigan State University tried a technique for producing plant biofuels, an unexpected result led to an increase in our basic knowledge of plant biology.

Stony Brook Researchers Capture Argon Atoms at Room Temperature with a 2D Structure

A research team from Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory have synthesized a two-dimensional structure and successfully trapped argon atoms inside the nanosized pore structure at room temperature.