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Argonne research expanding from injectors to inhalers

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

In collaboration with Australian researchers, Argonne's scientists are using decades of experience analyzing vehicle fuel injectors to study medical inhalers, hoping to unlock the secrets of the devices that are so well known to asthma sufferers everywhere.

Argonne researchers to study Chicago emergency evacuation system

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A group of Argonne researchers will be studying methods and creating tools for building more resilient mass transit systems to evacuate major cities under a $2.9 million grant announced this week by the US Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration.

Funder: US Department of Transportation/Federal Transit Administration

Argonne model analyzes biofuel impacts

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Argonne researchers today released a new version of an online analysis tool that will help biofuels developers gain a detailed understanding of water consumption of various types of feedstocks, aiding development of sustainable fuels that will reduce impact on limited water resources.

Funder: Department of Energy

Argonne partners with industry on nuclear work

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Argonne National Laboratory will work with three of the world's leading nuclear products and services companies on projects that could unlock the potential of advanced nuclear reactor designs, helping create a new generation of safer, more efficient reactors.

Funder: US Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy

Stunning zinc fireworks when egg meets sperm

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Zinc flux plays a central role in regulating the biochemical processes that ensure a healthy egg-to-embryo transition, and this new unprecedented quantitative information should be useful in improving in vitro fertilization methods.

Journal: Nature Chemistry
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health

Ultrafast imaging of complex systems in 3-D at near atomic resolution nears

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

It is becoming possible to image complex systems in 3-D with near-atomic resolution on ultrafast timescales using extremely intense X-ray free-electron laser pulses. One important step toward ultrafast imaging of samples with a single X-ray shot is understanding the interaction of extremely brilliant and intense X-ray pulses with the sample, including ionization rates.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Earth's most abundant mineral finally has a name

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An ancient meteorite and high-energy X-rays have helped scientists conclude a half century of effort to find, identify and characterize a mineral that makes up 38 percent of the Earth.

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

Fueling the future

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A team of researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has partnered with industry leaders Cummins, Inc., and Convergent Science, Inc. to create integrated models of one key element of engine behavior: the fluid dynamics of fuel injectors in modern engines.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

New technique simultaneously determines nanomaterials' chemical makeup, topography

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers from the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Ohio University have devised a powerful technique that simultaneously resolves the chemical characterization and topography of nanoscale materials down to the height of a single atom.

Journal: Nano Letters
Funder: Department of Energy

Discovery sheds light on nuclear reactor fuel behavior during a severe event

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new discovery about the atomic structure of uranium dioxide will help scientists select the best computational model to simulate severe nuclear reactor accidents.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, DOE/Small Business Innovation Research Program