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29-Aug-2017

Discovery suggests new significance of unheralded chemical reactions

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Argonne and Columbia researchers reveal new significance to a decades-old chemical reaction theory, increasing our understanding of the interaction of gases, relevant to combustion and planetary atmospheres.

Journal: Nature Chemistry
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences

28-Aug-2017

The outsized role of soil microbes

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Three scientists have proposed a new approach to better understand the role of soil organic matter in long-term carbon storage and its response to changes in global climate and atmospheric chemistry.

Journal: Nature Microbiology
Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and others, US Department of Energy's Office Science, National Key Research and Development Program of China, Office of Biological and Environmental Research; NSF Long-term Ecological Research Program; NSF FSML

25-Aug-2017

Trash to treasure: The benefits of waste-to-energy technologies

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using landfill waste to produce energy generates less greenhouse gases than simply letting the waste decompose. The study highlights the benefits of food waste as a potential source of energy.

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

24-Aug-2017

Big Bang -- the movie

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

In a new approach to enable scientific breakthroughs, researchers linked together supercomputers at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

23-Aug-2017

Widening horizons for high schoolers with code

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

In July, the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory hosted a five-day Coding Camp for more than two dozen high school juniors and seniors, teaching new programming skills and how computer science is an integral part of an Argonne researcher's life.

22-Aug-2017

Two Argonne scientists receive DOE Early Career Research Program awards

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne scientists Matt Dietrich and Tom Peterka have received DOE Early Career Research Program awards. Peterka was awarded for his work to redefine scientific data models to be communicated, stored and analyzed more efficiently. Dietrich was recognized for his work probing potential new physics beyond the Standard Model that could help explain why matter came to dominate the universe.

21-Aug-2017

Nanotechnology moves from the clean room to the classroom

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and United Scientific Supplies Inc. are introducing high school students to nanoscience with a new hands-on product.

Funder: Basic Energy Sciences for Center for Nanoscale Materials

16-Aug-2017

Young minds take the stage at Argonne

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne's Learning on the Lawn celebration capped 10 weeks of intense discoveries and experimentation for 90 students, led by luminaries from across the laboratory -- from nuclear engineers to biologists to experts in exascale computing, systems that will be 50+ times quicker than today's supercomputers.

15-Aug-2017

Seth Darling named director of the Institute for Molecular Engineering at Argonne

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has named Seth Darling as Director of the Institute for Molecular Engineering at Argonne (IME at Argonne), effective immediately. IME at Argonne is the Argonne-based partner to the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago.

11-Aug-2017

New battery material goes with the flow

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have engineered a new material to be used in redox flow batteries, which are particularly useful for storing electricity for the grid. The material consists of carefully structured molecules designed to be particularly electrochemically stable in order to prevent the battery from losing energy to unwanted reactions.