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Tasty fat: X-rays finding the blueprint of why fat is yummy

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Over three years, a University of Guelph team has brought increasingly complex samples of edible fat to the APS for research.

Journal: Food Chemistry
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences

Argonne technology wins 2016 TechConnect National Innovation Award

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A Graphene-nanodiamond solution for achieving superlubricity that was developed at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has won a 2016 TechConnect National Innovation Award. TechConnect is a global innovation prospecting company, delivering the most promising technologies to the world's leading corporate, investment and government clients.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Advanced Scientific Computing Research

Scientists create 'magnetic charge ice'

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of scientists working at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and led by Northern Illinois University physicist and Argonne materials scientist Zhili Xiao has created a new material, called 'rewritable magnetic charge ice,' that permits an unprecedented degree of control over local magnetic fields and could pave the way for new computing technologies.

Journal: Science

Argonne National Laboratory program to provide opportunity to launch ventures

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

To meet this challenge, the US Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Argonne National Laboratory announced today a new innovation accelerator program for science and energy entrepreneurs called Chain Reaction Innovations.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Temporary oilfield workers are major factor in increased water use in N. Dakota Bakken region

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Increased water use in the rapidly growing oil industry in North Dakota's Bakken oil shale region, or play, is surprisingly due not only to oil well development but also to people, according to a recent study. Increased oil development in that region has attracted thousands of oilfield employees.

Journal: Environmental Science & Technology
Funder: Natural Resources Defense Council, Stanford University, DOE/National Energy Technology Laboratory

Gone with the wind: Argonne coating shows surprising potential to improve reliability in wind power

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A group of researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Akron discovered that a particular form of carbon coating not necessarily designed for wind turbines may indeed prove a boon to the wind industry -- a serendipitous finding that was recently highlighted in the journal Tribology International.

Journal: Tribology International
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

Large Hadron Collider prepares to deliver 6 times the data

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

After months of winter hibernation, the Large Hadron Collider is once again smashing protons and taking data. The LHC will run around the clock for the next six months and produce roughly 2 quadrillion high-quality proton collisions, six times more than in 2015 and just shy of the total number of collisions recorded during the nearly three years of the collider's first run.

The hottest job in physics?

DOE/SLAC/Fermilab

While the supply of accelerator physicists in the United States has grown modestly over the last decade, it hasn't been able to catch up with demand fueled by industry interest in medical particle accelerators and growing collaborations at the national labs.

Bakery switches to propane vans

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A switch to propane from diesel by a major Midwest bakery fleet showed promising results, including a significant displacement of petroleum, a drop in greenhouse gases and a fuel cost savings of 7 cents per mile, according to a study recently completed by the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.

Funder: DOE/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

New magnetism research brings high-temp superconductivity applications closer

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team by the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered that only half the atoms in some iron-based superconductors are magnetic, providing the first conclusive demonstration of the wave-like properties of metallic magnetism.

Journal: Nature Physics