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Argonne-led projects among $39.8 million in first-round Exascale Computing Project awards

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Exascale Computing Project today announced its first round of funding with the selection of application development proposals, including three Argonne-led projects.

Funder: Exascale Computing Project, DOE/US Department of Energy

Argonne theorists solve a long-standing fundamental problem

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Trying to understand a system of atoms is like herding gnats -- the individual atoms are never at rest and are constantly moving and interacting. When it comes to trying to model the properties and behavior of these kinds of systems, scientists use two fundamentally different pictures of reality, one of which is called 'statistical' and the other 'dynamical.'

Journal: The Journal of Chemical Physics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, DOE/US Department of Energy, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

NOvA shines new light on how neutrinos behave

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from the NOvA collaboration have announced an exciting new result that could improve our understanding of the behavior of neutrinos.

Meeting: 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics

Argonne discovery yields self-healing diamond-like carbon

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A group of tribologists -- scientists who study the effect of friction in machines -- and computational materials scientists at Argonne recently discovered a revolutionary diamond-like film that is generated by the heat and pressure of an automotive engine.

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

A new leaf: Scientists turn carbon dioxide back into fuel

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new study from Argonne and the University of Illinois at Chicago, researchers have found a way to convert carbon dioxide into a usable energy source.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

New silicon structures could make better biointerfaces

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers have engineered silicon particles one-fiftieth the width of a human hair, which could lead to 'biointerface' systems designed to make nerve cells fire and heart cells beat.

Journal: Nature Materials

Diamonds help generate new record for static pressures for study

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team working at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory has devised a method for achieving 1 terapascal of static pressure -- vastly higher than any previously reached.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: BES, Department of Energy, DOE/Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, & Biosciences, National Science Foundation

New X-ray method allows scientists to probe molecular explosions

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by researchers from the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used the high-intensity, quick-burst X-rays provided by the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to look at how the atoms in a molecule change when the molecule is bombarded with X-rays.

Journal: Nature Communications

A new way to control oxygen for electronic properties

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Argonne found they could use a small electric current to introduce oxygen voids, or vacancies, that dramatically change the conductivity of thin oxide films.

Journal: Nature Communications

X-rays reveal the photonic crystals in butterfly wings that create color

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists used X-rays to discover what creates one butterfly effect: how the microscopic structures on the insect's wings reflect light to appear as brilliant colors to the eye.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy