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

UConn Grad Student Headed to Brookhaven Lab

Daniel Hoying has received the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award for his work in high energy physics.

Physics Ph.D. Student Receives DOE Grad Student Research Award

Joseph Karpie, a Ph.D. student in William & Mary’s Department of Physics, has been named a recipient of an award from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.

Mapping the Effects of Crystal Defects

New research offers insights into how crystal dislocations — a common type of defect in materials — can affect electrical and heat transport through crystals, at a microscopic, quantum mechanical level.

Solid Metal has "Structural Memory" of its Liquid State

New work from a team including Carnegie’s Guoyin Shen and Yoshio Kono used high pressure and temperature to reveal a kind of “structural memory” in samples of the metal bismuth, a discovery with great electrical engineering potential.

Quantum Computing in Infinite Dimensions

Researchers at the University of Tennessee Knoxville have developed mathematical processes that take machine learning into infinite dimensions, with the potential to speed up computers far beyond conventional machines and make data storage and processing cheaper and more energy efficient.

Researchers Develop Groundbreaking Process for Creating Ultra-Selective Separation Membranes

A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has developed a groundbreaking one-step, crystal growth process for making ultra-thin layers of material with molecular-sized pores.

New Partners in Research

A new partnership between the University of Delaware and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, announced last week during a two-day Innovation in Materials Science workshop, has just that sort of potential.

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Scientists Find New Method to Control Electronic Properties of Nanocrystals

Researchers from Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered new effects of an important method for modulating semiconductors.

Energy Harvested from Evaporation Could Power Much of U.S., Says Study

In the first evaluation of evaporation as a renewable energy source, researchers at Columbia University find that U.S. lakes and reservoirs could generate 325 gigawatts of power, nearly 70 percent of what the United States currently produces.

Genome Sequence of Fuel-Producing Alga Announced

The genome of the fuel-producing green microalga Botryococcus braunii has been sequenced by a team of researchers led by a group at Texas A&M AgriLife Research.

Hope to Discover Sure Signs of Life on Mars? New Research Says Look for the Element Vanadium

A new paper in the journal Astrobiology suggests NASA and others hunting for proof of Martian biology in the form of “microfossils” could use the element vanadium in combination with Raman spectroscopy on organic material as biosignatures to confirm traces of extraterrestrial life.

Is the Milky Way an ‘Outlier’ Galaxy?

New research indicated that the Milky Way's satellite galaxies are much more tranquil than other systems of comparable luminosity and environment.