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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.