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Clouds with a chance of warming

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers from Argonne's Environmental Science division participated in one of the largest collaborative atmospheric measurement campaigns in Antarctica in recent decades.

Making the makers

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

A group of eight undergraduate students from Northwestern University gave their summer internships a twist by teaming up to learn about an array of different advanced manufacturing technologies at theUS Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. Both the students and laboratory staff say the internships yielded positive results.

Argonne partners to strengthen Puerto Rican infrastructure

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne researchers have helped Puerto Rico's long-term recovery by bolstering the planning for its critical infrastructure systems.

Argonne develops computer model to explore fuel octane number

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at Argonne have developed a virtual cooperative fuel research engine that will help probe how a fuel's chemical kinetics translates into its octane rating.

Scientists use magnetic defects to achieve electromagnetic wave breakthrough

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new study, Argonne scientists have created small regions of magnetic defects. When electromagnetic plane waves interact with these defects, they are converted into helical waves, which encode more information for further materials studies.

Journal: Nano Letters
Funder: Department of Energy, DOE/Basic Energy Sciences

DOE approves technical plan and cost estimate to upgrade Argonne facility

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The US Department of Energy has approved the technical scope, cost estimate and plan of work for an upgrade of the Advanced Photon Source, a major storage-ring X-ray source at Argonne.

Funder: Basic Energy Sciences, DOE/US Department of Energy

Argonne scientists maximize the effectiveness of platinum in fuel cells

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In new research from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and published in Science, scientists have identified a new catalyst that uses only about a quarter as much platinum as current technology by maximizing the effectiveness of the available platinum.

Journal: Science

Barely scratching the surface: A new way to make robust membranes

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Argonne researchers have demonstrated a new technique's viability for membranes.

Leading the advance of global manufacturing

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne and MIT look to expand how high-performance computing can advance the manufacturing ecosystem.

New X-ray imaging approach could boost nanoscale resolution for Advanced Photon Source Upgrade

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

A long-standing problem in optics holds that an improved resolution in imaging is offset by a loss in the depth of focus. Now, scientists are joining computation with X-ray imaging as they develop a new and exciting technique to bypass this limitation.