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Professor Karah Knope of the Georgetown College Department of Chemistry has been named a recipient of a 2018 Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) and the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan discovered eight new rare isotopes of the elements phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, argon, potassium, scandium and, most importantly, calcium. These are the heaviest isotopes of these elements ever found.
Read more about MSU Researchers Lead Team that Discovers Heaviest Known Calcium Atom; Eight New Rare Isotopes Discovered in Total
A new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory examines inorganic links between nanoparticles for applications in solar panels, electrons and optical devices.
Read more about Nanocrystal Links Could Lead to Better Electronics
Prof. Guihua Yu of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and materials science program in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin has been selected to receive the prestigious Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Award.
Read more about Department of Energy Selects Guihua Yu for Early Career Award
Chemistry professor Héctor Abruña will lead a Department of Energy-sponsored Energy Frontier Research Center at Cornell University, aimed at developing next-generation, alkaline-based fuel cells.
Read more about $10.75M Grant Aids Nex-gen Fuel Cell Development
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences has awarded Rice University researchers $1.1 million to study single nanoparticles and their ability to act as electrocatalysts.
Read more about Feds Back Rice U. Study of Nanoscale Electrocatalysis
Stanford will soon be home to two new Department of Energy-funded Energy Frontier Research Centers, aimed at transforming the way energy is generated, transformed, stored and used.
Read more about Two New Energy Frontier Research Centers at Stanford
The use of uranium as a source of clean energy might soon take a leap forward, following the announcement that a University of Kansas chemistry professor has received a prestigious five-year award for work on this topic from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Read more about Energy Department Award Supports Professor's Study of Safer, Cheaper Nuclear Power
Researchers led by a University of California San Diego team have published work in the journal Nature Energy that explains what’s causing the performance-reducing “voltage fade” that currently plagues a promising class of cathode materials called Lithium-rich NMC (nickel magnesium cobalt) layered oxides.
Read more about What’s Causing the Voltage Fade in Lithium-rich NMC Cathode Materials?
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed an algorithm that could provide meaningful answers to condensed matter physicists in their searches for novel and emergent properties in materials.
Read more about New Algorithm Could Help Find New Physics
Natural sources of the toxic form of chromium appear in wells that provide drinking water to a large population in California, offering a new perspective on California’s groundwater management challenges.
Read more about Natural Chromium Sources Threaten California Groundwater, Stanford Scientists Find
Growing a batch of carbon nanotubes that are all the same may not be as simple as researchers had hoped, according to Rice University scientists.
Read more about Two-faced Edge Makes Nanotubes Obey
