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LLNL licenses carbon nanotube technology to local company

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has exclusively licensed to Porifera Inc. of Hayward a carbon nanotube technology that can be used to desalinate water, and can be applied to other liquid based separations.

New nano color sorters from Molecular Foundry

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry have created bowtie-shaped antennae that function as the first tunable nano color sorters, able to capture, filter and steer light at the nanoscale.

Journal: Nano Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Report on US-China collaboration on carbon capture and sequestration

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Julio Friedmann, in collaboration with the Center for American Progress, the Asia Society Center and with partner Monitor Group, today released the report, "A Roadmap for US-China Collaboration on Carbon Capture and Sequestration."

High-precision measurements confirm cosmologists' standard view of the universe

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by Sarah Church of KIPAC, jointly located SLAC and Stanford University, and by Walter Gear, of Cardiff University. These measurements put limits on proposed alternatives to the standard model of cosmology and provide further support for the standard cosmological model, confirming that dark matter and dark energy make up 95 percent of everything in existence.

Science begins at the world's most powerful X-ray laser

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The first experiments are now underway using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Illuminating objects and processes at unprecedented speed and scale, the LCLS has embarked on groundbreaking research in physics, structural biology, energy science, chemistry and a host of other fields.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Berkeley researchers create first hyperlens for sound waves

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers have developed the world's first acoustic hyperlens, a device that provides an eightfold boost in the magnification power of ultrasound, underwater sonar and other sound-based imaging technologies.

Journal: Nature Materials
Funder: US Office of Naval Research

Berkeley researchers find new route to nano self-assembly

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By adding select small molecules to mixtures of nanoparticles and polymers, Berkeley Lab researchers can direct the self-assembly of the nanoparticles into arrays of one, two and even three dimensions with no chemical modifications.

Journal: Nature Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Model microbial community for studying expanding dead zones characterized

DOE/Joint Genome Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The expansion of oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) affects the processes by which carbon is captured and sequestered on the seafloor. In the Oct. 23 issue of the journal Science, researchers from the University of British Columbia and the US DOE Joint Genome Institute describe the metagenome of an abundant but uncultivated microbe from a fjord on the coast of British Columbia, Canada, that is silently helping to shape the ecology of OMZs worldwide.

Journal: Science

Installed cost of solar photovoltaic systems in the US fell in 2008

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) released a new study on the installed costs of solar photovoltaic power systems in the US, showing that the average cost of these systems declined by more than 30 percent from 1998 to 2008. Within the last year of this period, costs fell by more than 4 percent.

On the road to fusion energy, an accelerator to study warm dense matter

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Warm dense matter exists in the cores of gas giant planets and the preliminary stages of nuclear fusion, among other inaccessible places. With an accelerator being built at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as part of the Heavy Ion Fusion Science Virtual National Laboratory, a collaboration among Berkeley Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, scientists will soon be able to study warm dense matter in the laboratory.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy