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SCGSR Student Brian Lejeune Talks About His Research Experience at Ames Laboratory

Northeastern University student Brian Lejeune is completing research at Ames Laboratory as a recipient of the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program (DOE SCGSR) award, a 3-up to-12 month program that supports outstanding students to pursue part of their Ph.D. thesis research at a DOE laboratory/facility in areas that address scientific challenges central to the Office of Science mission.

Novel Reaction Could Spark Alternate Approach to Ammonia Production

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have discovered a new type of catalytic reaction that could lead to more energy efficient and environmentally friendly method of ammonia production for fertilizer.

PSI Researchers Seek Existence of Exotic Quantum Spin Ice

Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland, Romain Sibille and Nicolas Gauthier, are studying a fascinating sample using neutrons at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Shake Rattle and Code

Tom Jordan and a team from the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) are using the supercomputing resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility, to advance modeling for the study of earthquake risk and how to reduce it.

ORNL Team Reaches Into Atoms’ Depths to Look at Particle Interactions Driving Nuclear Stability

Using the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility at ORNL, a team of nuclear physicists and collaborators have simulated tin-100, an isotope that researchers have long sought to understand.

Multi-Modal Operando X-Ray Study Yields New Insights on Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

At the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, a group of researchers conducted a multi-technique x-ray study to learn more about the structural and chemical evolution of a metal sulfide additive – copper sulfide (CuS), in this case – as the lithium ions moved between the battery’s electrodes.

Ames Lab Takes the Guesswork Out of Discovering New High-Entropy Alloys

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has developed a method of computational analysis that can help predict the composition and properties of as-yet unmade high performance alloys.

Department of Energy to Invest $30 Million in Quantum Science Initiative

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) plans to invest up to $30 million over the next three years in Quantum Information Science (QIS). QIS is a new, wide-ranging area of research that is expected to lay the groundwork for the next generation of computing and information processing, as well as an array of other innovative technologies.

NREL Researchers Create New Materials With Unusual Properties

Few scientists reference Kurt Vonnegut in their academic journals, but researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) found the parallels between his work and theirs compelling. Both invoke polymorphism—the ability of a material to adopt multiple crystal structures.

Scientists Pinpoint Energy Flowing Through Vibrations in Superconducting Crystals

Scientists have tracked never-before-seen interactions between electrons and the crystal lattice structure of copper-oxide superconductors. The collaboration, led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, achieved measurement precision faster than one trillionth of one second through a groundbreaking combination of experimental techniques.

New Details of Molecular Machinery that Builds Plant Cell Wall Components

A new biochemical genetics study at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory reveals how a membrane protein within plant cells serves as a scaffold to organize three key enzymes involved in building the cell's exterior support.

UEC Profile: Jiwen Fan and the Enduring Allure of Deep Convection and Severe Storms

Jiwen Fan is an inspired investigator of severe storms, as well as an ascendant expert in modeling cloud-aerosol interactions at the process scale. Such interactions remain the largest uncertainty in models designed to simulate future earth system conditions.