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Institute for Catalysis in Energy Processes Receives $2.8 Million Award from the Department of Energy

The $2.8 million award allows ICEP to address fundamental questions in catalysis—building on nearly two decades of leadership in a research field that is at the core of all industrial chemical processes.

MSU Nets $1.1M in DOE Grants

The four grants come from the DOE Offices of High Energy Physics, Fusion Energy Sciences, Nuclear Physics and Biological and Environmental Research, representing the breadth of research undertaken at MSU.

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Research Brief: A Warmer Climate Will Also be a Drier Climate, with Negative Impacts on Forest Growth

Warmer temperatures brought on by climate change will lead to drier soils and reduce tree photosynthesis and growth in forests later this century, according to a new University of Minnesota study published in the journal Nature.

Quantum Network to Test Unhackable Communications

Scientists at the national labs and at the University of Chicago are creating one of world’s longest fiber-optic links to ‘teleport’ information.

MSU Physicist's Subatomic Structure Study Published in Nature

A member of Mississippi State’s Department of Physics and Astronomy has been recognized on an international platform for her investigation into the subatomic structure of nuclei. Assistant Professor Lamiaa El Fassi’s research, “Probing high-momentum protons and neutrons in neutron-rich nuclei,” was published recently in the global scientific journal Nature.

High Entropy Alloys Hold the Key to Studying Dislocation Avalanches in Metals

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Tennessee, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has made it possible to understand how dislocations—in catastrophic materials failure--organize and react at nanoscale.

Self-healing Material Can Build Itself from Carbon in the Air

A material designed by MIT chemical engineers can react with carbon dioxide from the air, to grow, strengthen, and even repair itself. The polymer, which might someday be used as construction or repair material or for protective coatings, continuously converts the greenhouse gas into a carbon-based material that reinforces itself.

Research on Light-Matter Interaction Could Lead to Improved Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices

A paper published in Nature Communications by Sufei Shi, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer, increases our understanding of how light interacts with atomically thin semiconductors and creates unique excitonic complex particles, multiple electrons, and holes strongly bound together.

Exploring the Challenges of Exfoliating Novel Two-Dimensional Materials

Salvador Barraza-Lopez, associate professor of physics at the University of Arkansas, and his research group are studying 2D materials called group IV monochalcogenides, which includes tin selenide, germanium sulfide, tin(II) sulfide, tin telluride and tin selenide, among others.

Center for Theoretical Physics Professors Earn DOE Quantum Information Science Awards

Center for Theoretical Physics professors Daniel Harlow, Aram Harrow, Hong Liu and Jesse Thaler have been named recipients of research awards in the U.S. Department of Energy’s new program in Quantum Information Science (QIS).

When Light, Not Heat, Causes Melting

The way that ordinary materials undergo a phase change, such as melting or freezing, has been studied in great detail. Now, a team of researchers has observed that when they trigger a phase change by using intense pulses of laser light, instead of by changing the temperature, the process occurs very differently.

New Material, Manufacturing Process Use Sun's Heat for Cheaper Renewable Electricity

A Purdue University-led team developed a new material and manufacturing process that would make one way to use solar power – as heat energy – more efficient in generating electricity.