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16-May-2018

Argonne's TechConnect hat trick

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Argonne National Laboratory nanoscientist Anirudha Sumant has earned a TechConnect Innovation Award for the third year in a row. The award recognizes Sumant's work on nitrogen-incorporated ultrananocrystalline diamonds for application as a portable electron source in field emission cathodes. The technology was developed in partnership with Euclid Techlabs to create a superior field emission electron source for use in linear accelerators.

10-May-2018

Nanodiamonds are forever

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Argonne researchers have created a self-generating, very-low-friction dry lubricant that lasts so long it could almost be confused with forever.

Journal

Nature Communications

Funder

DOE/Basic Energy Science, DOE/Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)

9-May-2018

APS-CNM Users Meeting helps scientists plan for an even brighter future

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Meeting Announcement

The Advanced Photon Source and Center for Nanoscale Materials will host the APS-CNM Users Meeting to be held at Argonne from May 7 to 10.

Funder

Basic Energy Sciences (BES), DOE/US Department of Energy

7-May-2018

SimEarth

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Argonne joins its sister national laboratories in powering a new Earth modeling system with supercomputers. The system features weather-scale resolution and can help researchers anticipate decadal-scale changes that could influence the US energy sector in years to come.

Funder

US Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research, Advanced Scientific Computing Research

4-May-2018

Argonne scientist wins international award for magnetism research

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Samuel Bader, a longtime materials scientist at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, is one of three researchers to earn the 2018 prestigious Magnetism Award and Néel Medal of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

2-May-2018

Shake rattle and code

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Tom Jordan and a team from the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) are using the supercomputing resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a US Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility, to advance modeling for the study of earthquake risk and how to reduce it.

1-May-2018

U of C student receives 2018 Rosalind Franklin Investigator Award

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

A University of Chicago graduate student in Biophysical Sciences has received the 2018 Rosalind Franklin Investigator Award from the Advanced Photon Source Users Organization.

27-Apr-2018

Argonne's exemplary student research program inspires girls to join the sciences

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Now in its seventh year, this educational program encourages high school students to work with Argonne scientists. In 2018, students from Aqsa School investigated lithium-ion batteries at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source.

27-Apr-2018

Four Argonne researchers earn international honors

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Four senior researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have received international recognition for their groundbreaking work in combustion science and technology. Chemists Lawrence Harding, Albert Wagner, Stephen Klippenstein and James Miller have been inducted as fellows of The Combustion Institute.

Funder

DOE/Basic Energy Sciences

25-Apr-2018

Balancing nuclear and renewable energy

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Argonne researchers explore the benefits of adjusting the output of nuclear power plants according to the changing supply of renewable energy such as wind and solar power.

Journal

Applied Energy

Funder

Argonne National Laboratory's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program