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

Two Stony Brook Researchers Receive Energy Frontier Research Center Awards Totaling $21.75M

Stony Brook University has received notification from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that two proposals directed by SBU faculty to expand or develop Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) designed to accelerate scientific breakthroughs needed to strengthen U.S. economic leadership and energy security will receive funding totaling $21.75 million.

Randles Selected to Help Pilot First U.S. Exascale Computer

Amanda Randles, the Alfred Winborne Mordecai and Victoria Stover Mordecai Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, is getting an early crack at using Aurora—the nation’s newest and largest supercomputer.

Northwestern Receives $15 Million for Department of Energy Frontier Research Centers

The two selected proposals from Northwestern, the Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science (CBES) and the Center for Light Energy Activated Redox Processes (LEAP), were among 42 programs collectively funded for $100 million to accelerate scientific understanding in energy-relevant fields.

Raul Briceno, JLab Scientist, Selected for Prestigious Department of Energy Research Grant

Raul Briceno, an assistant professor in Old Dominion University's Department of Physics, was recently selected to receive a research grant as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science's Early Career Research Program.

DOE Early Career Award for University of Michigan Chemist Kerri Pratt

Analytical and environmental chemist Kerri Pratt has been awarded a 2018 Department of Energy Early Career Award. The five-year grant provides $750,000 to support her research on Arctic chemistry.

Low Energy Photons, High Energy Research

The U.S. Department of Energy announced that Luisa Whittaker-Brooks of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah is one of 84 recipients of the U. S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program award. The award will assist Whittaker-Brooks in investigating the properties of two-dimensional hybrid organic-inorganic materials for their use as detectors of low-energy infrared photons.

Modeling Research Identifies Potentially Profitable Bioproducts

GLBRC researchers Christos Maravelias, Jennifer Reed, and the study’s first author Tony (Wenzhao) Wu, has developed and used a multi-scale modeling process to identify 32 biochemicals as economically promising if maximum yields can be achieved, and 22 biochemicals if the maximum productivities can be achieved.

In Borophene, Boundaries Are No Barrier

When researchers synthesize borophene, the two-dimensional form of boron, in the laboratory, they often observe defects in the material. Northwestern University and Rice University researchers recently discovered that these defects surprisingly assemble into ordered structures that preserve the new material’s unique electronic properties.

Shining the Light: FSU Researchers Use Photons to Separate Metal Ions

A Florida State University research team is using a simple, readily available energy source to separate metal ions, a process that could help purify water or even recycle nuclear waste.

Princeton Scientists Discover a 'Tuneable' Novel Quantum State of Matter

An international team of researchers led by Princeton physicist Zahid Hasan has discovered a quantum state of matter that can be “tuned” at will — and it’s 10 times more tuneable than existing theories can explain. This level of manipulability opens enormous possibilities for next-generation nanotechnologies and quantum computing.

Scientists Detect Most Common Way that Higgs Bosons Decay

The new discovery is a big step forward in the quest to understand how the Higgs enables fundamental particles to acquire mass.

Astronomer Alexie Leauthaud Wins DOE Early Career Award

Alexie Leauthaud, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, is among 84 scientists selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) to receive funding through DOE's Early Career Research Program. The award provides $750,000 over five years to support Leauthaud's research on dark energy.