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

UMD Physicist Improves Method for Designing Fusion Experiments

A University of Maryland physicist has made an important revision to software tools used to design stellarators, which will balance tradeoffs between the ideal magnetic field shape and potential coil shapes, leaving more space between the coils for repair access and sensor placement.

Researchers Develop Best-Yet Cell Culture System for Age-Related Macular Degeneration

An international team from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and University College London and Queens University Belfast in the United Kingdom developed a cell culture model that could help to develop earlier treatment strategies for age-related macular degeneration, the third most prevalent cause of vision loss worldwide.

Stanford Engineers Create a Low-Cost Battery for Storing Renewable Energy

A battery made with urea, commonly found in fertilizers and mammal urine, could provide a low-cost way of storing energy produced through solar power or other forms of renewable energy for consumption during off hours.

Atomic-Scale View of Bacterial Proteins Offers Path to New Tuberculosis Drugs

With the first detailed analysis of a cellular component from a close relative of the pathogen that causes tuberculosis, Rockefeller scientists are suggesting strategies for new drugs to curb this growing health problem.

UCLA Physicists Map the Atomic Structure of an Alloy

Researchers measured the coordinates of more than 23,000 atoms in a technologically important material.

Absorbing Electromagnetic Energy While Avoiding the Heat

Electrical engineers at Duke University have created the world's first electromagnetic metamaterial made without any metal.

Dream of Energy-Collecting Windows is One Step Closer to Reality

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and University of Milano-Bicocca are bringing the dream of windows that can efficiently collect solar energy one step closer to reality thanks to high tech silicon nanoparticles.

Making Molecular Movies with X-rays

In order to better understand the chemical reactions in real time that allow your skin to make vitamin D3, University of California, Berkeley scientists are developing ultrafast spectroscopic devices that not only fit on a table top, but also produce the hard-to-generate UVB photons that trigger the reaction.

Stabilizing Energy Storage

University of Utah and University of Michigan chemists, participating in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, predict a better future for a type of battery for grid storage called redox flow batteries.

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Carnegie Mellon Physicists Search for Supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider

Carnegie Mellon physicists have been instrumental in the development and operation of one of the giant detectors, called the Compact Muon Solenoid, in the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider.

New Property Found in Unusual Crystalline Materials

A team of researchers at MIT discover materials with a special kind of boundary between crystal grains can deform in unexpected ways.

A Sweeter Way to Make Green Products

A research team led by Basudeb Saha at University of Delaware’s Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center, has invented a new process that could make forest and farm waste a cheaper, sustainable alternative to the petroleum used in manufacturing thousands of products.