2018 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation Funding Renewed

The Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation (CLSF), an Energy Frontiers Research Center (EFRC) established by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in 2009 and led by Penn State scientists, has once again had its funding renewed by the DOE for an additional four years.

Researchers Boost Performance Quality of Perovskites

Scientists at the University of Washington report that a prototype semiconductor thin-film has performed even better than today’s best solar cell materials at emitting light.

Quantum Magnets Attract Department of Energy Funding

Colorado State University physicist Kate Ross studies exotic states in quantum magnets under extreme conditions. Her work in this area was recently funded by an Early Career Research Program grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The award of $750,000 will fund her research in “non-equilibrium effects in quantum magnets” through 2023.

University of Minnesota-based Center Awarded $12 Million to Continue Energy Materials Research

The University of Minnesota announced that it has received a $12 million grant over four years from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue leading the discovery of a new class of materials used in energy research.

Taming Fusion with Machine Learning

MIT postdoc Cristina Rea is exploring ways to predict disruptions in the turbulent plasma that fuels fusion tokamak reactors at the Institute's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC).

Stanford AI Recreates Chemistry’s Periodic Table of Elements

In a first step toward generating an artificial intelligence program that can find new laws of nature, a Stanford team created a program that reproduced a complex human discovery – the periodic table.

A Multifunctional, Multiscale, Reconfigurable Surface

An international team of researchers, led by Harvard University, have developed a dynamic surface with reconfigurable topography that can sculpt and re-sculpt microscale to macroscale features, change its friction and slipperiness, and tune other properties based on its proximity to a magnetic field.

Texas A&M Chemistry's David Powers Honored With 2018 Department of Energy Early Career Research Award

Powers, whose research focuses on developing new catalysts to address unsolved problems in chemical synthesis and energy conversion, is one of two Texas A&M faculty (along with the Department of Aerospace Engineering's Dr. Ken Hara) and 84 scientists nationwide -- six total in the state of Texas -- selected to receive funding under the DOE's Early Career Research Program.

Silberstein Wins DOE Grant to Study Polymer Membranes

Meredith Silberstein, assistant professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is one of 84 scientists chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy to receive funding as part of the DOE Office of Science’s Early Career Research Program.

UF Engineer Among 84 Scientists Selected by Dept. of Energy for Early Career Research Program Funding

Assel Aitkaliyeva, an assistant professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Florida, is among 54 university scientists selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to receive significant funding for research as part of the DOE Office of Science’s Early Career Research Program.

DOE Energy Frontier Research Center at Princeton

Princeton University and collaborators have received funding from the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) with a focus on “bioinspired light-escalated chemistry (BioLEC).”

Adding an Inert Polymer to Plastic Solar Cells Enables High Efficiency and Easy Production

Polymer plastic solar cells remain an industry priority because of their light weight, flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Now scientists from Stony Brook University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have demonstrated that these types of solar cells can be more efficient and have more stability based on new research findings.