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

High Entropy Alloys Hold the Key to Studying Dislocation Avalanches in Metals

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Tennessee, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has made it possible to understand how dislocations—in catastrophic materials failure--organize and react at nanoscale.

Center for Theoretical Physics Professors Earn DOE Quantum Information Science Awards

Center for Theoretical Physics professors Daniel Harlow, Aram Harrow, Hong Liu and Jesse Thaler have been named recipients of research awards in the U.S. Department of Energy’s new program in Quantum Information Science (QIS).

New Material, Manufacturing Process Use Sun's Heat for Cheaper Renewable Electricity

A Purdue University-led team developed a new material and manufacturing process that would make one way to use solar power – as heat energy – more efficient in generating electricity.

Revolutionary Ultra-thin “Meta-lens” Enables Full-color Imaging

Flat, micron-thick lens offers performance comparable to top-of-the-line compound lens systems; could drastically reduce the size and weight of any optical instruments used for imaging, including cameras, microscopes, telescopes, and eyeglasses.

Loitering in the Atmosphere: Wildfire Aerosols Linger Longer Than Expected

Light-absorbing brown carbon aerosols, emitted by wildfires, remain longer in the atmosphere than expected, which could have implications for climate predictions.

Graduate Students Awarded Department of Energy Fellowship

Anda Trifan, a doctoral candidate in professor of biochemistry Emad Tajkhorshid’s research group, has been awarded a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship to support her research in theoretical and computational biophysics. Edward Hutter, a doctoral candidate in professor of computer science Edgar Solomonik’s research group, was awarded the fellowship to support his research in computer science.

Rochester Joins New Nationwide High-intensity Laser Network

To help foster leadership in the application of high-intensity lasers, the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) is partnering with eight other high-intensity laser facilities across the country in a new national research network called LaserNetUS.

Double Awards for Grad Student Sean Burcher

Physics Graduate Student Sean Burcher toured this world this summer, presenting his research on classical novae and winning two awards in the process.

Physicists Brainstorm World’s 21st-Century Energy Challenges

A team of international scientists led by UC San Diego is working to devise computing hardware capable of functioning as effectively as the human brain.

New Fuel Cell Concept Brings Biological Design to Better Electricity Generation

A University of Wisconsin–Madison team has designed a fuel cell using cheaper materials and an organic compound that shuttles electrons and protons.

UCLA Professors Justin Caram & Anastassia Alexandrova are co-PIs on DOE QIS Research Grant

Team from UCLA, USC, Caltech and Harvard, led by UCLA physicist Wesley Campbell, awarded 2.7 million 3-year DOE Quantum Information Science Research Award.

Scientists Present New Clues to Cut Through the Mystery of Titan's Atmospheric Haze

A research collaboration, involving scientists in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and led by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Professor Ralf Kaiser, has zeroed in on a low-temperature chemical mechanism that may have driven the formation of multiple-ringed molecules—the precursors to more complex chemistry now found in the moon’s brown-orange haze layer.