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Metal-organic frameworks feel the pressure of Argonne scientists

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at US Department of Energy's Argonne National laboratory are putting the pressure on metal-organic frameworks. Behaving as molecular-scale sponges these MOFs have wide ranging potential uses for filtering, capturing or detecting molecules such as carbon dioxide or hydrogen storage for fuel cells.

Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

NIH awards Argonne $800,000 to develop tool to measure distances within proteins

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have won an $800,000 EUREKA award from the National Institutes of Health to develop MADMAX, a precise molecular ruler for measuring distances within a protein.

Funder: National Institutes of Health

Fermilab physicists discover 'doubly strange' particle

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Physicists of the DZero experiment at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b. The particle contains two strange quarks and a bottom quark. It is an exotic relative of the much more common proton and weighs about six times the proton mass.

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

Computation Institute to bulk up data analysis capability with $1.5 million grant

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Computation Institute, a joint effort of the University of Chicago and the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a computer system that will enable researchers to store, access and analyze massive datasets. The new system is called the Petascale Active Data Store, which has been optimized for rapid data transactions, both on campus and around the globe.

Funder: National Science Foundation

Argonne scientists discover networks of metal nanoparticles are culprits in alloy corrosion

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Oxide scales are supposed to protect alloys from extensive corrosion, but scientists at US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered metal nanoparticle chinks in this armor.

Journal: Nature Materials

Tevatron experiments double-team Higgs boson

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The CDF and DZero collaborations at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab are advancing the quest for the long-sought Higgs boson. Their latest results indicate that researchers have for the first time excluded, with 95 percent probability, a mass for the Higgs of 170 GeV. This value lies in the possible mass range for the particle established by earlier experiments. The result demonstrates that the Tevatron experiments are sensitive to potential Higgs signals.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, others
Meeting: 34th Annual International Conference on High Energy Physics

Prelude to the Higgs: A work for 2 bosons in the key of Z

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab have announced the observation of pairs of Z bosons, force-carrying particles produced in proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron, the world's highest-energy particle accelerator. The properties of the ZZ diboson make its discovery an essential prelude to finding or excluding the Higgs boson at the Tevatron.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, others
Meeting: 34th Annual International Conference on High Energy Physics

Argonne scientists discover new class of glassy material

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are dealing with an entirely new type of frustration, but it's not stressing them out. Dynamic frustration has been found to be the cause of glassy behavior in materials that previously had none of the features of a normal glass.

Journal: Nature Physics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Argonne, UChicago researchers pursue grasses as Earth-friendly biofuel

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

At a small site on the Batavia campus of Fermilab, ecologist Julie Jastrow of Argonne National Laboratory pushes the scientific frontier in a new and exciting way: she watches the grass grow.

Leading-edge data analytics, visualization set for world's fastest open science supercomputer

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, located at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, will soon have the data analytics and visualization capability to complement its distinction as the fastest computer in the world for open science and the third fastest overall computer in the world.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy