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17-Feb-2025

Self-driving lab transforms materials discovery

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed an AI-driven automated material laboratory, Polybot, an autonomous discovery platform that explores processing pathways to produce high-quality electronic polymer films with optimized conductivity and low-defect coatings, offering practical guidance for scalable production.

Journal: Nature Communications

13-Feb-2025

Photographing DUNE

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Documenting the work of building the world’s largest neutrino experiment presents photographers with a unique set of challenges.

5-Feb-2025

SandiaAI chat: New tool for creating efficiencies

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories became the first facility within the nuclear security enterprise to provide its employees with access to this powerful new tool with SandiaAI Chat, enabling them to ask sensitive unclassified questions.

5-Feb-2025

From innovation to industry: ORNL Researchers complete Energy I-Corps program

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Nick Gregorich and Syed Islam, ORNL R&D staff, recently completed Cohort 19 of the Energy I-Corps program, an initiative of DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions, or OTT, that provides teams of researchers and industry mentors with an immersive two-month training to develop commercialization pathways for laboratory-developed technologies.

3-Feb-2025

Employee-led giving at ORNL nets over $1.1M for area nonprofits, disaster relief in 2024

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL staff and its managing contractor, UT-Battelle, donated $1,104,866 in the 2024 ORNL Gives campaign, an annual employee-led effort to address needs throughout East Tennessee.

28-Jan-2025

Argonne releases Aurora exascale supercomputer to researchers, enabling accelerated science

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

With its Aurora exascale supercomputer, Argonne National Laboratory is providing researchers with a powerful tool to accelerate discoveries across many fields, including biology, chemistry and AI for science.

23-Jan-2025

Mining the dark sky with the Aurora exascale supercomputer

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

As part of the Aurora Early Science Program, an Argonne team is using the lab’s new Aurora exascale supercomputer and AI tools to perform simulations of the universe that aim to shed light on dark matter and dark energy.

23-Jan-2025

Orchestrating the nanoscale: exploring light and matter for quantum science

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

As part of the Q-NEXT quantum research center, Randall Goldsmith of the University of Wisconsin–Madison studies the interplay of light and matter, harnessing it for quantum information technologies.

16-Jan-2025

Sandia’s economic impact soars to $5.2B in 2024

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories achieved a record-breaking economic impact of $5.2 billion for 2024, surpassing the previous year’s figure by more than $423 million.

16-Jan-2025

Next-level semiconductor testing available

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new automated testing capability for semiconductor devices, which is newly available to researchers and industry partners in the Grid Research Integration and Deployment Center, or GRID-C.