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

Professor's Work Could Lead to More Fuel-Efficient Tires

Texas Tech University's Greg McKenna, the John R. Bradford Endowed Chair in Engineering and Horn Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering in the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering, has received a three-year, $345,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science to study ring molecules in the hope of producing more fuel-efficient tires in the future.

Luiz de Viveiros to Receive Department of Energy Early Career Research Program funding

Luiz de Viveiros, assistant professor of physics at Penn State University, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science to receive funding for his research as part of the DOE's Early Career Research Program.

LSU Chemists Characterize the Fatal Fungus Among Us

LSU chemists have identified for the first time the cell wall structure of one of the most prevalent and deadly fungi, which could usher in a new era of antifungal drug development to help save millions of lives.

Team Shatters Theoretical Limit on Bio-hydrogen Production

Researchers from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln have engineered the bacterial species Thermotoga maritima to produce more hydrogen than any bacterium before it.

Researchers Receive DOE Grant for Center

The University of Utah’s College of Engineering and College of Mines and Earth Sciences have received a four-year, $10.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to create an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC).

Rare Antibodies Show Scientists How to Neutralize the Many Types of Ebola

Two new studies by scientists at Scripps Research are bringing Ebola virus’s weaknesses into the spotlight, showing for the first time exactly how human and mouse antibodies can bind to the virus and stop infection—not only for Ebola virus, but for other closely related pathogens as well.

Ions: The Good and The Bad

William Weber, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Radiation Effects on Materials, and the Ion Beams Material Laboratory are looking at the good and the bad of ions.

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Designer Enzyme Conquers Sulfite Reduction, a Bottleneck in Environmental Cleanup

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have cleared one hurdle toward environmental cleanup of certain contaminants with a newly designed synthetic enzyme that reduces the compound sulfite to sulfide – a notoriously complex multistep chemical reaction that has eluded chemists for years.

Long-sought Carbon Structure Joins Graphene, Fullerene Family

UC Berkeley chemists have proved that three carbon structures recently created by scientists in South Korea and Japan are in fact the long-sought schwarzites, which researchers predict will have unique electrical and storage properties like those now being discovered in buckminsterfullerenes (buckyballs or fullerenes for short), nanotubes and graphene.

UW Professor Receives $205,000 DOE Grant to Study High Energy Physics

Adam Myers, in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, recently received a $205,000 DOE grant for his project, titled “eBOSS and DESI: LSS Catalogs, Targeting and Spectroscopic Contaminants.” The grant, announced July 30 by the DOE’s Office of High Energy Physics, runs through April 30, 2021.

DOE Early Career Award for Elizabeth Biddinger’s CCNY Biomass Research

Elizabeth J. Biddinger, assistant professor of chemical engineering in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is one of 84 recipients nationwide of U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Awards announced today. She’ll receive $750,000 over five years for her research in the emerging field of biomass electroreduction.

Faulkner Receives DOE Early Career Award

Assistant Professor of Physics Thomas Faulkner has been selected by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science to receive an Early Career Award. The DOE Early Career Research Program, now in its ninth year, provides award recipients with significant funding over a five year period.