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Cheng wins Midwest Energy News' 40 Under 40 Award

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Lei Cheng, an assistant chemist in the Materials Science division at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, has received a Midwest Energy News 40 Under 40 Award.

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

How machine learning can sharpen environmental research

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne recently hosted a workshop that brought together computational and natural scientists to discuss opportunities for applying machine learning and geospatial statistics to challenging problems in environmental research.

JCESR renewed for another five years

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced its decision to renew the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub led by Argonne National Laboratory and focused on advancing battery science and technology.

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

Greater than the sum of its parts

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Argonne scientists and their collaborators have developed a new model that merges basic electrochemical theory with theories used in different contexts, such as the study of photoelectrochemistry and semiconductor physics, to describe phenomena that occur in any electrode.

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Standards and Technology, DOE/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement, National Science Foundation, National Research Council, Fuel Cell Technologies Office

First particle tracks seen in prototype for international neutrino experiment

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Business Announcement

The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in the story of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Graphene helps protect photocathodes for physics experiments

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Argonne researchers have used thin sheets of graphene to prevent photocathode materials from interacting with air, which increases their lifetimes. Photocathodes are used to convert light to electricity in accelerators and other physics experiments.

Journal: Advanced Materials Interfaces

The next phase: Using neural networks to identify gas-phase molecules

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Argonne scientists have developed a neural network that can identify the structure of molecules in the gas phase, offering a novel technique for national security and pharmaceutical applications.

Journal: The Journal of Chemical Physics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of Science

Exploring next-generation coherent X-ray science

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne physicists are taking coherent X-rays to the next level, with funding from the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program.

A trick of the light

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Argonne researchers are using nanoparticles to make photodetectors better able to handle the ultraviolet radiation produced in high-energy physics experiments.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of High Energy Physics; National Science Foundation; US Department of Homeland Security, Office of Science

Algorithms for atoms

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Nuclear scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed an algorithm for estimating the capital cost of building advanced nuclear reactor designs.