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

USM Polymer Student Wins Prestigious Graduate Research Award

University of Southern Mississippi doctoral student Abagail Williams has been chosen to receive a prestigious Graduate Student Research Program (SCGSR) award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

Matthew Vollmer Receives DOE Graduate Student Research Award

Matthew Vollmer, a fourth-year graduate student working with Professor Connie Lu, has received a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award. He was one of 60 graduate students in the country to receive this award.

Machine-Learning System Processes Sounds Like Humans Do

Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre.

Electrochemical Tuning of Single Layer Materials Relies on Defects

Perfection is not everything, according to an international team of researchers whose 2-D materials study shows that defects can enhance a material's physical, electrochemical, magnetic, energy and catalytic properties.

Strained Materials Make Cooler Superconductors

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have added a new dimension to our understanding of why straining a particular group of materials, called Ruddlesden-Popper oxides, tampers with their superconducting properties.

ASU Team Discovers a New Take on Early Evolution of Photosynthesis

A team of scientists from Arizona State University’s School of Molecular Sciences has begun rethinking the evolutionary history of photochemical reaction centers (RCs).

Liquid Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy Makes a Window into the Nanoscale

A team of scientists and engineers dug into the mechanisms that degrade sample quality in liquid cell transmission electron microscopy (LC-TEM). They developed an LC-TEM device that uses multiple windows and patterned features to explore the impacts of high-energy electron bombardment on nanoparticles and sensitive biological samples.

Supercomputing the Emergence of Material Behavior

A team of chemists at the University of California, San Diego has now designed a two-dimensional protein crystal that toggles between states of varying porosity and density. This is a first in biomolecular design that combined experimental studies with computation done on several supercomputing systems: the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the National Institute for Computational Sciences, and the Texas Advance Computing Center.

UT Nuclear Engineering Student Chosen for Top Fellowship

UT’s Eric O’Quinn, a graduate student in nuclear engineering, has been chosen by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science for enrollment in its graduate student research program.

Artificial Intelligence Accelerates Discovery of Metallic Glass

A group led by scientists at Northwestern University, the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has reported a shortcut for discovering and improving metallic glass — and, by extension, other elusive materials — at a fraction of the time and cost.

New Self-Assembling Protein Hydrogels May Hold Many Applications for Biomedicine

Delivering medications safely and accurately is of great interest to researchers and, of course, to people who need them. So is restoring function to damaged body parts. Jin K. Montclare, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has taken a big step towards meeting both of these goals.

Quantum Shift Shows Itself in Coupled Light and Matter

A team led by Rice University scientists used a unique combination of techniques to observe, for the first time, a condensed matter phenomenon about which others have only speculated. The research could aid in the development of quantum computers.