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Discovery Could Yield More Efficient Portable Electronics and Solar Cells

A team of chemists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has set the stage for more efficient and sturdier portable electronic devices and possibly a new generation of solar cells based on organic materials.

Pick a Color, Any Color

A small team of scientists can synthesize molecules that will absorb any color of sunlight, from the oranges through the near-infrared, greatly expanding the palette of light-harvesting molecules

MSU, Argonne Sign MOU for Joint Energy Research

A new partnership between Mississippi State University and Argonne National Laboratory has made the university home to a major regional joint research initiative.

New HOLODEC Study in Science on Using Holography to Better Understand Clouds

Using holography and an airplane laboratory, a team led by Michigan Tech found distinct mixing patterns in cloud droplets.

UNL Receives $13.5 Million Biofuel Research Grant

According to a UNL news release, the five-year grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, intends to help researchers better understand how plants and microbes interact and continue to learn about the growth patterns of sorghum.

Researchers Measure How Specific Atoms Move in Dielectric Materials

Researchers from North Carolina State University, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and UNSW Australia have measured the behavior of specific atoms in dielectric materials when exposed to an electric field.

Study Shows New Forests Cannot Take in as Much Carbon as Predicted

Scientists at the University of Illinois have found that most carbon emissions models overestimate the capacity of regrowing forests to take in carbon.

New Catalyst Does More With Less Platinum

Platinum is a highly reactive and in-demand catalyst across the chemical and energy industries, but a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Georgia Institute of Technology scientists could reduce the world’s dependence on this scarce and expensive metal.

$12.5 Million Added to Research Funds

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program awarded SDSU mechanical engineering researcher and assistant professor Ilenia Battiato with a competitive award grant to advance her research.

Why Do Puddles Stop Spreading?

Simple everyday phenomenon was unexplained by physics — until now.

Mak to Receive Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Funding

Kin Fai Mak, assistant professor of physics in Eberly College of Science at Penn State, 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.

Making the Biofuels Process Safer for Microbes

A team of investigators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Michigan State University have created a process for making the work environment less toxic—literally—for the organisms that do the heavy lifting in the increasingly important field of bioproducts derived from cellulosic biomass.