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

Chemical Engineering Alumna Receives Federal Early Career Award

Elizabeth J. Biddinger, an Ohio University chemical and biomolecular engineering alumna, has received one of 84 early career awards from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Graphene Layered with Magnetic Materials Could Drive Ultrathin Spintronics

Tiny swirling textures in the magnetic fields within layered materials could be a key to replacing disk drives and flash memory in computing devices. Physicists at UC Davis and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are exploring how these patterns form in materials layered with graphene, an ultrathin form of carbon.

UAF, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Ink Collaborative Agreement

The University of Alaska Fairbanks and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have signed a five-year collaborative agreement to advance research on hydropower generation, marine renewable energy and underwater technology development.

Rutgers-led Research Could Lead to More Efficient Electronics

A Rutgers-led team of physicists has demonstrated a way to conduct electricity between transistors without energy loss, opening the door to low-power electronics and, potentially, quantum computing that would be far faster than today’s computers.

Stanford Researchers Find Groundwater Pumping Can Increase Arsenic Levels in Irrigation and Drinking Water

Pumping an aquifer to the last drop squeezes out more than water. A Stanford study finds it can also unlock dangerous arsenic from buried clays – and reveals how sinking land can provide an early warning and measure of contamination.

Evidence for New Property of Quantum Matter Revealed

A theorized but never-before detected property of quantum matter has now been spotted in the lab at Johns Hopkins University.

A Better Device for Measuring Electromagnetic Radiation

Bolometers, devices that monitor electromagnetic radiation through heating of an absorbing material, are used by astronomers and homeowners alike. But most such devices have limited bandwidth and must be operated at ultralow temperatures. Now, researchers say they’ve found a ultrafast yet highly sensitive alternative that can work at room temperature — and may be much less expensive.

Designing a Better Superconductor with Geometric Frustration

A new, dynamic system discovered by researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Argonne National Laboratory will enable ongoing adjustments to tiny tornadoes of supercurrent – called vortex filaments – to alter a material’s superconducting properties over time.

Clemson Graduate Student Receives Fellowship to Premier Physics Laboratory

Andrew Garmon, a doctoral student in the department of physics and astronomy, has received a fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Research (SCGSR) to study at Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the nation’s leading research facilities.

Computational Science Grad Students Awarded U.S. Department of Energy Fellowships

Four MIT graduate students have been awarded 2018 United States Department of Energy (DoE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowships to address intractable challenges in science and engineering. Nationwide, MIT garnered the most fellowships out of this year’s 26 recipients.

New Research Looks Beyond Carbon Efficiency to Improve Advanced Biofuel Strategy Development

Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center researchers Christos Maravelias and Peyman Fasahati aimed to identify critical drivers, outside of carbon efficiency, for assessing new biofuels strategies and found that there are two other vital parameters: the energy required to produce the fuels in a biorefinery and the fuels’ efficiency in a vehicle’s engine.

UMD-led Study Shows How Earth Slows the Solar Wind to a Gentle Breeze

NASA satellite data reveals electron-scale energy transformation at the leading edge of Earth’s magnetic field.