University Research

Structure Revealed: Plant Sugar Transporter Involved in Carbon Sequestration

Two teams of researchers – from the Carnegie Institution of Science and from Stanford University School of Medicine – are unraveling the molecular structure of a transport protein that plays a critical role in limiting the sugar supply available to root microbes, an important step in understanding the sugar transport process and energy homeostasis in cells.

Patched Atoms: Energy Researchers Discover New Structure for Bimetallic Catalysts

Researchers at the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, an Energy Frontier Research Center at the University of Delaware, have discovered that the imperfect patched surface of a bimetallic catalyst offers better performance than those formed from two perfect concentric circles.

Change Agent Jim Cochran

A physics professor at Iowa State, Cochran also manages the U.S. research contributions at ATLAS, one of the one of the huge particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

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Department of Energy Creates Center for Computational Materials at Argonne

The center is headquartered at Argonne, which is managed by UChicago Argonne LLC, with co-investigators from several universities, including the University of Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame, the University of Michigan and University of California, Davis.

Big Range of Behaviors for Tiny Graphene Pores

Researchers at MIT have created tiny pores in single sheets of graphene that have an array of preferences and characteristics similar to those of ion channels in living cells.

World’s Largest Atom Smashers Create World’s Smallest Droplets

As part of the Large Hadron Collider’s CMS detector team, Professor of Physics Julia Velkovska, post-doctoral fellow Shenguan Tuo and Research Assistant Professor Shengli Huang at Vanderbilt University have been in the middle of the creation of tiny, ephemeral drops of quark-gluon plasma (QGP).

Eight Members Join Argonne Board of Governors

In the past year, eight distinguished leaders with deep collective expertise in bioscience, communications, energy, engineering, government, physical sciences and technology have joined the UChicago Argonne, LLC Board of Governors.

Is Your Digital Information More at Risk Today Than a Decade Ago?

According to researchers at the University of New Mexico and Berkley Lab, data breaches, in general, are not growing in size.

Single Atom Alloy Platinum-Copper Catalysts Cut Costs, Boost Green Technology

A new generation of platinum-copper catalysts that require very low concentrations of platinum in the form of individual atoms to cleanly and cheaply perform important chemical reactions is reported today by Tufts University researchers in the journal Nature Communications.