News By Location

News from IL

Select a state to view local articles and features

In the heat of the light

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists at Argonne and Oak Ridge national laboratories are drawing on decades of nuclear research on salts to advance a promising solar technology.

Six Argonne researchers recognized as 2019 Distinguished Fellows

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Six leading researchers from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have received international recognition in being named as Argonne Distinguished Fellows.

Argonne-led center receives award for pivotal discovery in battery technology

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Center for Electrochemical Energy Science at Argonne National Laboratory has won a Ten at Ten Award from the U.S. Department of Energy. The award-winning research involved the development and commercialization of two new electrode technologies for next-generation lithium-ion batteries.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy Rapid Manufacturing Institute (award number DE-EE0007888) and by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences

Krypton reveals ancient water beneath the Israeli desert

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Getting reliable precipitation data from the past has proven difficult, as is predicting regional changes for climate models in the present. A combination of isotope techniques developed by researchers at Argonne and UChicago may help resolve both.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOE gives 'green light' to upgrade Argonne's advanced photon source

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Acceptance of Argonne's final design report for the complex APS Upgrade authorizes the laboratory to proceed with procurements needed to build the nation's brightest energy, storage-ring based X-ray source.

Funder: Office of Science, DOE/US Department of Energy

APS research on shark vertebrae could improve treatment of bone disease in humans

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne's storied Advanced Photon Source (APS), home to thousands of experiments through the years, is currently aiding in a study of shark spines -- one that could shed light on human bones. Stuart R.
Stock, a materials scientist and faculty member of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, is using the APS to better understand shark vertebrae's formation and strength through high resolution, 3D X-ray imaging.

Argonne celebrates Apollo 11 anniversary and new moon rock study

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the receipt of original, unopened materials from the final NASA lunar missions to be studied at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source, and a brief history of lunar research at Argonne.

Expanding the limits of personalized medicine with high-performance computing

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Imagine that you have a serious medical condition. Then imagine that when you visit a team of doctors, they could build an identical virtual 'twin' of the condition and simulate millions of ways to treat it until they develop an effective treatment. That is the vision of a team of scientists, led by Argonne National Laboratory.

Journal: Molecular Systems Design & Engineering

A sharper focus: New computational technique resolves compressed X-ray data

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

With high-energy X-rays, such as those that will be produced by the upgrade to Argonne's Advanced Photon Source comes a potential hitch -- the more penetrating the X-rays are, the higher a likelihood that researchers could run into problems with the image data. In a new study, researchers at Argonne have found a novel way to combat this image degradation.

Journal: Physical Review A

Who's using the User Facilities?

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Whether studying the fundamental behavior of metals or reconstructing the evolution of the universe, researchers are finding the resources to accomplish their goals at one or a combination of US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facilities. Argonne is home to five of these world-class facilities and plays host to several thousand users each year. This article highlights just a few of those users and their relationship with Argonne's User Facilities.