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Meet the Director: Guy Savard

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

This is a continuing profile series on the directors of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facilities. These scientists lead a variety of research institutions that provide researchers with the most advanced tools of modern science including accelerators, colliders, supercomputers, light sources and neutron sources, as well as facilities for studying the nano world, the environment, and the atmosphere.

The Big Questions: Ian Foster on High-Performance Computing

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

The Big Questions series features perspectives from the five recipients of the Department of Energy Office of Science's 2019 Distinguished Scientists Fellows Award describing their research and what they plan to do with the award. Ian Foster is the director of Argonne National Laboratory's Data Science and Learning Division.

Senior Chemist Mark Beno receives posthumous AAAS fellow distinction

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Mark Beno, APS senior chemist, recognized for his decades-long work.

Meeting: 2020 AAAS Annual Meeting

Lin Chen receives Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society announces that Lin X. Chen has received the 2020 Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry. The award recognizes Chen for "fundamental contributions to the elucidation of excited state structures, dynamics and energetics of light harvesting systems.

Meeting: American Chemical Society Fall 2020 National Meeting

Rising global temperatures turn northern permafrost region into significant carbon source

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study that incorporates datasets gathered from more than 100 sites by institutions including the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, suggests that decomposition of organic matter in permafrost soil is substantially larger than previously thought, demonstrating the significant impact that emissions from the permafrost soil could have on the greenhouse effect and global warming.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

Scientists pioneer new generation of semiconductor neutron detector

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new study, scientists have developed a new type of semiconductor neutron detector that boosts detection rates by reducing the number of steps involved in neutron capture and transduction.

Journal: Nature

New quantum loop provides long national testbed for quantum communication technology

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Scientists from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago launched a new testbed for quantum communication experiments from Argonne last week.

Scientists observe ultrafast birth of radicals

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team of researchers have, for the first time, glimpsed the ultrafast process of proton transfer following ionization of liquid water, shedding light on how radical cations separate from their electron partners, neutralize and subsequently drift about creating damage.

Journal: Science

Exploring the 'dark side' of a single-crystal complex oxide thin film

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study offers a nanoscopic view of complex oxides, which have great potential for advanced microelectronics.

Journal: Advanced Materials
Funder: United States Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences

Soundwaves carry information between quantum systems

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists built a system with curved electrodes to concentrate the sound waves.