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2018

University California Riverside

U.S. Department of Energy Awards $10.75 Million to Establish Energy Frontier Research Center at Case Western Reserve University

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded Case Western Reserve University $10.75 million over four years to establish a research center to explore “Breakthrough Electrolytes for Energy Storage” — with the intent of identifying new battery chemistries with the potential to provide large, long-lasting energy storage solutions for buildings or the power grid.

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Florida State University

Physicist Rachel Yohay Receives Department of Energy Early-career Award Worth $750,000

Working to solve the dark matter mystery is the goal of high-energy physicist Rachel Yohay. Yohay, an assistant professor in Florida State University’s Department of Physics, will now have some help in that endeavor from the U.S. Department of Energy, whose Office of Science just awarded her one of 84 Early Career Research Program awards given out this year. The five-year award, valued at $750,000, will cover her summer salary and research expenses.

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Chicago University

New Study Reveals Proton Hydration Structures are Asymmetric

A team of researchers at the University of Chicago used broadband 2D IR spectroscopy to reveal proton behavior when acids like HCl dissociate in water. Although general chemistry textbooks typically teach that the proton associates with water as a hydronium ion H3O+, they discovered that the proton is strongly bound between two water molecules and that the structures are predominantly asymmetrical.

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