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Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Could Increase Computer Speed, Memory

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) possess optical properties that could be used to make computers run a million times faster and store information a million times more energy-efficiently, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

How Some Algae May Survive Climate Change

Green algae that evolved to tolerate hostile and fluctuating conditions in salt marshes and inland salt flats are expected to survive climate change, thanks to hardy genes they stole from bacteria, according to a Rutgers-led study.

Could Bacteria Fuel the Future?

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Eleftherios (Terry) Papoutsakis, the Unidel Eugene du Pont Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, a three-year, $1.5 million grant to study the production of clostridium bacteria as platforms for biofuels.

Renewed Project Could Protect Environment for Millennia

A team that has included more than 85 researchers from three South Carolina universities is receiving $2 million to continue investigating how buried nuclear waste would react with soil and groundwater if it were to leak into the environment.

Grad Students Earn Prestigious DOE Research Awards, Funding

Two Buckeye engineers are among only 47 graduate students nationwide chosen to receive highly competitive Department of Energy (DOE) research awards. Materials science and engineering (MSE) PhD students Cory Myers and Chris Kovacs each earned DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research award.

Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Faculty Receive U.S. Department of Energy EFRC Awards

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is proud to announce that two of its faculty have received notification for funding to expand or develop Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

Physics Ph.D. Candidate Rosin Receives Award from U.S. Department of Energy

Physics Ph.D. candidate Guy Rosin was recently named one of 47 young scientists in the nation to receive the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Science Graduate Student Research Program award, which prepares graduate students for STEM careers critically important to the DOE Office of Science’s mission by providing graduate thesis research opportunities at DOE laboratories.

Georgetown Professor Receives Two Grants for Quantum Information Science as Part of the Department of Energy’s Recent $218 Million Initiative

Prof. Freericks and his NC State colleague Prof. Lex Kemper, are working on developing algorithms to use quantum computers to solve some of the most difficult and challenging problems in quantum mechanics of interest to solid state physicists with quantum computers that are available now and in the near future.

Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings

Columbia Engineers make white paint whiter—and cooler—by removing white pigment and invent a polymer coating, with nano-to-microscale air voids, that acts as a spontaneous air cooler and can be fabricated, dyed, and applied like paint.

Caltech Awarded Federal Funding for Quantum Research

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have both announced new funding awards for quantum-related research in conjunction with a White House Summit on Advancing American Leadership in Quantum Information Science, held on Monday, September 24.

Mordijck to Lead U.S. Department of Energy Milestone Initiative

Saskia Mordijck, assistant professor of applied science at William & Mary, will serve as the global leader of the Joint Research Target for the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, working with labs throughout the world to solve the complicated problem of refueling fusion reactions.

$2.5M Grant Funds Real-Time Monitoring of Underground Carbon Sequestration

Researchers from Penn State, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Texas at Austin are partnering on a new $2.5-million project to illuminate what happens to carbon dioxide during underground sequestration.