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

New Technology Could Wean the Battery World Off Cobalt

A research team led by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, has opened the door to using other metals in lithium-based batteries, and have built cathodes with 50 percent more lithium-storage capacity than conventional materials.

Scientist Develops Protein Mimic to Help Injured Lungs Breathe

A Stanford University researcher has bioengineered an effective protein mimic that restored breathing capacity to the injured lungs of rats.

Chemistry Student Earns Admission to National Laboratory Program

Katherine Ceschi, a senior chemistry major at UW-Whitewater, will study for six weeks at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, on Long Island, where she will explore nuclear chemistry. Only 24 students in the country were selected for this highly competitive and prestigious program.

UNH Researchers Find Combination for Small Data Storage and Tinier Computers

It may sound like a futuristic device out of a spy novel, a computer the size of a pinhead, but according to new research from the University of New Hampshire, it might be a reality sooner than once thought.

Stanford Researchers Have Developed a Water-Based Battery to Store Solar and Wind Energy

Stanford scientists have developed a manganese-hydrogen battery that could fill a missing piece in the nation’s energy puzzle by storing wind and solar energy for when it is needed, lessening the need to burn carbon-emitting fossil fuels.

Researchers Find Way to Keep Proteins Functioning Outside of the Cell

A team of researchers at Northwestern University and the University of California at Berkeley have discovered a way to keep proteins active outside of a cell. The discovery could lead to a new class of materials with functions found only in living systems.

Is a Dark Particle the 'Dark Horse' of Dark Matter?

Scientists at UC San Diego are proposing the possibility of a yet-to-be-discovered “dark particle” that could account for both dark matter and a defined discrepancy in the field of physics when it comes to measuring neutron lifetime.

University of Illinois Team Finds Wigner Crystal—Not Mott Insulator—in 'Magic-angle' Graphene

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have recently shown that the insulating behavior reported by the MIT team has been misattributed. Professor Philip Phillips, a noted expert in the physics of Mott insulators, says a careful review of the MIT experimental data by his team revealed that the insulating behavior of the “magic-angle” graphene is not Mott insulation, but something even more profound—a Wigner crystal.

Oxide Materials Discovery May Advance Electronic Device Development

Materials scientists at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have made a breakthrough discovery in the study of oxide heterostructures, substances that have the potential to revolutionize advanced electronics, memory technologies and photovoltaics.

$22 Million for Quantum Research at UChicago and National Labs

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded more than $22 million to scientists at the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for quantum science research, spanning the search for dark matter to more powerful computing.

Neil McFadden wins US DOE Graduate Student Research Award

UNM Physics Graduate student Neil McFadden has been selected to receive the US Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award to pursue his PhD this summer at Los Alamos National Lab.

Historic Partnership Promises Bright Future

Lehigh University partners with Brookhaven National Laboratory, the first of its kind between NSLS-II and an academic research institution.