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

Notre Dame Researchers Developing Renewable Energy Approach for Producing Ammonia

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are developing a renewable energy approach for synthesizing ammonia, an essential component of fertilizers that support the world’s food production needs.

New Sodium-ion Electrolyte May Find Use in Solid-state Batteries

A newly discovered structure of a sodium-based material allows the materials to be used as an electrolyte in solid-state batteries, according to researchers from Penn State and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

NYU Tandon Student Wins U.S. DOE Grant to Conduct Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Adlai B Katzenberg will further his research with the help of the Advanced Light Source to gain insight into the relationship between chemical structure, physical structure, and transport properties in perfluorinated sulfonic acid (PFSA) ionomers.

Large Wildfires Bring Increases in Annual River Flow

Large wildfires cause increases in stream flow that can last for years or even decades, according to a new analysis of 30 years of data from across the continental United States.

Better Tools for Supercomputer Research

The U.S. Department of Energy will fund research into a novel approach to improving efficiency of next-generation supercomputer simulations with an award to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute doctoral candidate Caitlin Joann Ross.

The Changing Chemistry of the Amazonian Atmosphere

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have quantified the effect of NOx pollution on OH radicals in the Amazon rainforest.

Fine-Tuning Fusion

Theresa Wilks has come full circle, at least geographically. After receiving a master's and PhD from Georgia Tech, she returned to her home state of California in 2016 as an MIT postdoc doing fusion energy research at the DIII-D tokamak, a national fusion reactor in San Diego.

Engineering, LSA Faculty to Pursue Batter Breakthroughs as Part of Nationwide Battery Initiative

Five University of Michigan faculty will be part of the second five-year phase of the Joint Center for Energy Storage (JCESR) research, an ambitious Department of Energy project aimed at breaking the scientific barriers to realizing next-generation batteries.

Venkata Srinu Bhadram Receives Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence Award

Venkata Srinu Bhadram in Timothy Strobel’s lab at the Geophysical Laboratory (GL) will receive the ninth Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence Award (PIE). The recipients are awarded a cash prize for their exceptionally creative approaches to science, strong mentoring, and contributing to the sense of campus community.

Imaging Technique Pulls Plasmon Data Together

Rice University scientists have developed a novel technique to view a field of plasmonic nanoparticles simultaneously to learn how their differences change their reactivity.

Better Water Purification Methods Are Aim of New Research Center

With rising demand and dwindling supply, water is perhaps Earth’s most critical natural resource. One way to get more of it is to find more creative approaches — and new materials — to use and reuse existing water and improve upon existing water purification methods. That is the focus of the Center for Materials for Water and Energy SysTems (M-WET), a new multi-university research center headquartered in The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, uniting researchers from UT; the University of California, Santa Barbara; and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Experiments using Diamond Anvils Yield New Insight into the Deep Earth

Earth scientists at Caltech find evidence that suggests subducting slabs of the earth's crust may generate unusual features spotted near the core.