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Argonne showcases water research and innovations at Chicago Water Week

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Upcoming events highlight critical work being done at Argonne to address the water crisis

Fermilab scientist Vladimir Shiltsev elected to Academia Europaea

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Widely recognized for his work in accelerator beam physics, Shiltsev is one of 361 individuals elected to Academia Europaea, which promotes a wider appreciation of the value of European scholarship and research.

Argonne cuts ribbon on expanded Materials Engineering Research Facility

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Leaders from DOE and Argonne cut the ribbon on a new era of manufacturing -- science and technology that will accelerate commercialization of complex materials and chemicals critically important to US competitiveness.

Safety in robots: Mu2e's automated handler

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Humans and robots work together in a carefully choreographed dance to maintain peak production target performance in Mu2e's search for new physics — direct muon-to-electron conversion.

High-precision electrochemistry: The new gold standard in fuel cell catalyst development

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As part of an international collaboration, scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have made a pivotal discovery that could extend the lifetime of fuel cells that power electric vehicles by eliminating the dissolution of platinum catalysts.

Journal: Nature Materials

Virtual ALCF workshop helps participants boost supercomputer performance

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility recently hosted a virtual workshop to help researchers prepare code for the extreme scale and unique architectures that characterize leadership-class supercomputers.

Lead lab selected for next-generation cosmic microwave background experiment

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

The US Department of Energy has selected Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to lead a DOE/NSF experiment that combines observatories at the South Pole and in Chile's high desert. Fermilab plans to be a key partner on the experiment, called CMB-S4, which aims to undertake an unprecedented survey of the early universe.

Reexamining host materials for lithium-sulfur batteries

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are revisiting the roles of the polarity and conductivity of sulfur-host materials in long-life lithium-sulfur batteries in order to increase life cycle and energy efficiency.

Argonne researchers develop new chip design for analyzing plant-microbe interactions

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Plants interact with bacteria and fungi in ways that are not fully understood. Argonne researchers have discovered a way to see these interactions using a newly designed microfluidic device.

Scientists find new way to measure important beam property

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

In a new study from Argonne, researchers have measured important beam properties that will help scientists develop more focused beams for high-impact science.