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Esther Takeuchi honored in Special Festschrift Issue

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Esther Sans Takeuchi, a materials scientist and chemical engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, was honored by the Journal of Physical Chemistry C in a special Festschrift issue earlier this year.

Journal: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Experiment on photosynthesis by scientists at PNNL headed to the space station

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

As launch time draws near, PNNL scientists are eager to explore how plants might grow in space, where the effect of gravity is substantially weaker.

Five ORNL researchers complete pilot commercialization coaching program

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Five researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently completed an eight-week pilot commercialization coaching program as part of Safari, a program funded by DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions, or OTT, Practices to Accelerate the Commercialization of Technologies, or PACT.

Energy I-Corps steeps scientists in the world of business, commercialization

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Energy I-Corps pairs teams of researchers, often with no business background or knowledge, with industry mentors through an immersive two-month training program where the scientists define their technology’s value propositions, conduct stakeholder discovery interviews and develop viable market pathways. Two ORNL teams participated in Cohort 18, which concluded in March, helping commercialize the fruits of their research.

Thea Vijaya Kumar coordinates mechanical cooling systems for EIC

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

What do a particle collider and a human have in common? Not much. But both have parts that need to be kept within a certain temperature range to function properly. It’s a phenomenon mechanical engineer Thea Vijaya Kumar knows well. She designs systems to keep people and machines cool — a cool job in every sense of the word. Her current focus is on meeting that goal, and how to do it efficiently, for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).

New framework for identifying material coatings that can be used in nuclear reactors finds alternative to nickel-based alloys

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne scientists designed a way to optimize discovery of nuclear material coatings and identified a promising new candidate along the way.

Getting to the root of a plant’s success

DOE/US Department of Energy

Plants are powerful factories – they can turn basic ingredients like carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight into oxygen, sugars, and plant mass. But plants don’t do all of this work on their own. Below the soil’s surface, plant roots work with tiny microbes to gain access to the nutrients they need to survive. This microbial ecosystem, known as the plant microbiome, has the power to make or break a plant’s success aboveground.

Argonne’s AI Testbed gives researchers access to cutting-edge AI systems for science

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s AI Testbed is a growing collection of some of the world’s most advanced AI accelerators available for open science.

Nuclear physicists question origin of radioactive beryllium in the solar system

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory led studies of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, which existed when the solar system came into being some 4.5 to 5 billion years ago. They probed whether this isotope can be formed in sufficient quantities during the massive explosions of gigantic stars in their death throes, called supernovae.

Journal: Physical Review C
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science

Cryomodule assembly technicians rev up Jefferson Lab’s electron-beam racetrack

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

This article features Jefferson Lab's SRF Operations Department’s cryomodule assembly technicians, a team of master craftsmen who build, test and install cryomodules in particle accelerators. Their work enables scientific discoveries at Jefferson Lab and beyond.

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