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

Purdue Team Receives $2.5 Million to Develop Quantum Computing Technologies

A team of Purdue researchers led by Sabre Kais, a professor of chemistry, received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance technologies in quantum information science.

Hampton University Physics Graduate Student is the first Office of Science Graduate Student Research Awardee

Hampton University physics graduate student, Sahara Jesmin Mohammad Prem Nazeer, is officially the first Hampton University Office of Science Graduate Student Research Awardee.

Amanda Morris’ Chemistry Lab Mimicking How Plants Energize in Bid to Create Clean, Sustainable Energy

Morris, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, part of the Virginia Tech College of Science, and her student researchers are trying to mimic the ways plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide to storable food.

Finding Antineutrino Oscillation

For more than three years, scientists on the NOvA collaboration, which includes MSU physicists, have been observing particles called neutrinos as they oscillate from one type to another over a distance of 500 miles. Now, in a new result unveiled at the Neutrino 2018 conference, the collaboration has announced its first results using antineutrinos.

Machine Learning May Be a Game-Changer for Climate Prediction

Researchers led by Pierre Gentine, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia Engineering, demonstrate that machine learning techniques can be used to better represent clouds in coarse resolution climate models, with the potential to narrowing the range of prediction.

UT Collaboration Examines How Natural Chemicals in Green Tea Work

Green tea has always been known to have beneficial health effects, but how these effects come about has been a mystery. Now, a team collaborating across the University of Tennessee System has discovered molecular mechanisms with which key chemicals in green tea work.

Chemists ‘Crystallize’ New Approach to Materials Science

A team of chemists at the University of California San Diego conducted breakthrough research for materials science—a field for which chemistry frequently provides information about the structure and composition of materials, as well as the processes for making and using them.

Two CU Boulder Graduate Students Receive Department of Energy Awards

The University of Colorado Boulder recipients are Andrew Johnston Hess, who will be hosted at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Garrett Rue, who will be hosted at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

DOE Supports PhD Student’s Research on an Elementary Particle

Samuel Homiller, a PhD student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Arts & Sciences at Stony Brook University is among a group of students selected nationally as a recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program award.

Interaction of Paired and Lined-up Electrons Can be Manipulated in Semiconductors

Gábor Csáthy's lab at Purdue University has discovered a new way that electron arrangements could be manipulated within a two-dimensional electron gas of a semiconductor.

Stretchy Solar Cells a Step Closer

Organic solar cells that can be painted or printed on surfaces are increasingly efficient, and now show promise for incorporation into applications like clothing that also require them to be flexible. The Rice University lab of chemical and biomolecular engineer Rafael Verduzco has developed flexible organic photovoltaics that could be useful where constant, low-power generation is sufficient.

After 30 Years of R&D, Breakthrough Announced in Dark Matter Detection Technology, Definitive Search to Begin for Axion Particles

This week, the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX), which is based at the University of Washington, unveiled a new result, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, that places it in a category of one: it is the world’s first and only experiment to have achieved the necessary sensitivity to “hear” the telltale signs of dark matter axions.