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Argonne's debt to 2019 Nobel Prize for lithium-ion battery

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

A roar of approval rang out at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory upon the announcement in October that John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino had won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. On December 10th in Stockholm, they received this highly coveted prize for their major contributions to the invention of the lithium-ion battery, which is a long-standing major focus of research at Argonne.

Battery collaboration meeting discusses new pathways to recycle lithium-ion batteries

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

At a conference held by the ReCell Center, an advanced battery recycling collaboration based at Argonne, representatives from industry, government, and academia discussed innovative approaches for lithium-ion battery recycling.

Research at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source leads to new Ebola drug

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists using specialized beamlines at Argonne's Structural Biology Center (SBC), a facility for macromolecular crystallography at the Advanced Photon Source, derived insights that led to the discovery of a promising new drug for Ebola.

Antonino Miceli: Then and Now

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Antonino Miceli is the group leader of the Detectors Group in the X-ray Science Division of the Advanced Photon Source at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, a senior fellow at the Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering, and a senior scientist at the University of Chicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering.

Argonne collaboration shows benefits of better corn residue management strategies

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Sustainable corn stover removal can maintain soil carbon stock, according a new Argonne-led study.

Scientists devise catalyst that uses light to turn carbon dioxide to fuel

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a recent study from Argonne, scientists have used sunlight and a catalyst largely made of copper to transform carbon dioxide to methanol.

Journal: Nature Energy

Scientists find new way to identify, manipulate topological metals for spintronics

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A recent study gives researchers an easier way of finding Weyl semimetals and manipulating them for potential spintronic devices.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Argonne and TAE Technologies heating up plasma energy research

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Fusion power researchers at TAE Technologies employ Argonne supercomputers to develop magnetic fusion plasma confinement devices as a means to generate unlimited electricity.

Big trucks, little emissions

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers reveal a new integrated, cost-efficient way of converting ethanol for fuel blends that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Building a better battery with machine learning

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In two new papers, researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have turned to the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to dramatically accelerate battery discovery.

Journal: MRS Communications