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

Study Opens Route to Flexible Electronics Made from Exotic Materials

MIT researchers have devised a way to grow a single crystalline compound semiconductor on its substrate through two-dimensional materials.

Grad Students Earn Prestigious DOE Research Awards, Funding

Two Buckeye engineers are among only 47 graduate students nationwide chosen to receive highly competitive Department of Energy (DOE) research awards. Materials science and engineering (MSE) PhD students Cory Myers and Chris Kovacs each earned DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research award.

NOvA Experiment Reports Strong Evidence of Antineutrino Oscillation

Tricia Vahle, professor of physics at William & Mary and longtime NOvA participant, became a NOvA co-spokesperson on March 21. William & Mary has a sizeable presence on NOvA and even maintains a remote control facility in Small Hall to monitor the experiment based in Batavia, Illinois.

New Process Turns Wood Scraps Into Tape

Engineers at the University of Delaware have developed a novel process to make tape out of a major component of trees and plants called lignin.

Physicists Devise Method to Reveal How Light Affects Materials

Physicists at Emory University developed a way to determine the electronic properties of thin gold films after they interact with light.

Scientists See Inner Workings of Enzyme Telomerase, Which Plays Key Roles in Aging, Cancer

Cancer, aging-related diseases and other illnesses are closely tied to an important enzyme called “telomerase.” UCLA researchers report in the journal Cell the deepest scientific understanding yet of this once-mysterious enzyme, whose catalytic core — where most of its activity occurs — can now be seen in near atomic resolution.

2-D Nanosheet Expands Like a Grow Monster

Engineers have discovered that tiny crystal lattices called “self-assembling molecular nanosheets” expand when exposed to light.

Researchers Link Sedentary Behavior to Thinning in Brain Region Critical for Memory

Sitting too much is linked to changes in a section of the brain that is critical for memory, according to a preliminary study by UCLA researchers of middle-aged and older adults.

W&M Physicist Elected Co-Spokesperson for NOvA Neutrino Experiment

Tricia Vahle, professor of physics at William & Mary and longtime NOvA leader and scientist, was elected as NOvA’s new co-spokesperson in 2018 and assumed her role on March 21.

Machine-Learning System Processes Sounds Like Humans Do

Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre.

Electrochemical Tuning of Single Layer Materials Relies on Defects

Perfection is not everything, according to an international team of researchers whose 2-D materials study shows that defects can enhance a material's physical, electrochemical, magnetic, energy and catalytic properties.

Liquid Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy Makes a Window into the Nanoscale

A team of scientists and engineers dug into the mechanisms that degrade sample quality in liquid cell transmission electron microscopy (LC-TEM). They developed an LC-TEM device that uses multiple windows and patterned features to explore the impacts of high-energy electron bombardment on nanoparticles and sensitive biological samples.