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Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Faculty Receive U.S. Department of Energy EFRC Awards

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is proud to announce that two of its faculty have received notification for funding to expand or develop Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

Georgetown Professor Receives Two Grants for Quantum Information Science as Part of the Department of Energy’s Recent $218 Million Initiative

Prof. Freericks and his NC State colleague Prof. Lex Kemper, are working on developing algorithms to use quantum computers to solve some of the most difficult and challenging problems in quantum mechanics of interest to solid state physicists with quantum computers that are available now and in the near future.

$2.5M Grant Funds Real-Time Monitoring of Underground Carbon Sequestration

Researchers from Penn State, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Texas at Austin are partnering on a new $2.5-million project to illuminate what happens to carbon dioxide during underground sequestration.

Getting a Better Look at Living Cells

Scientists at University of Illinois at Chicago, Florida State University, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a sample holder device with 25 transparent windows that works with most transmission electron microscopes to significantly reduce the exposure of live samples to the electron beam used in transmission electron microscopy.

Through Thick and Thin: Researchers Solve Decades-old Fluid Question

A team of nanoscientists and physicists from Argonne National Laboratory has unraveled this 30-year mystery by studying a shear-thickening fluid with X-rays. The study could lead to applications in 3-D printing, the chemical industry and the biomedical field.

Discovery of New Material is Key Step Toward More Powerful Computing

Researchers in OSU’s College of Science have developed an inorganic compound that adopts a crystal structure capable of sustaining a new state of matter known as quantum spin liquid, an important advance toward quantum computing.

Scientists Project a Drier Amazon and Wetter Indonesia in the Future

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have found that large-scale changes in rainfall can, in part, be attributed to the way tropical forests respond to the overabundance of carbon dioxide humans are emitting into the atmosphere, particularly over dense forests in the Amazon and across Asia.”

Scientists Report First Results from CUORE Neutrino Experiment

An international team of physicists, including researchers at MIT, is reporting the first results from an underground experiment designed to answer one of physics’ most fundamental questions: Why is our universe made mostly of matter?

Scientists Pinpoint Energy Flowing Through Vibrations in Superconducting Crystals

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory including a Stony Brook grad student have tracked never-before-seen interactions between electrons and the crystal lattice structure of copper-oxide superconductors.

The Search for Dark Matter

The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) at the University of Washington recently created an ultra-sensitive technology that could potentially detect axions, the building blocks of dark matter. This discovery could pave the way for scientists to uncover how the universe is organized and what dark matter actually is.

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Good Things Come in Threes: Another Physics Student Wins DOE Award

For the third consecutive year, an NIU student in physics has landed a prestigious graduate student research award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.

When Lipids Meet Hormones: Plants' Answer to Complex Stresses

MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory scientists are connecting how plants harvest their own chloroplasts - photosynthesis machines that make their food - to help defend against outside threats.