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Argonne tests validate BMW Hydrogen 7 emissions well-below SULEV

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Independent tests conducted by engineers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory on a BMW Hydrogen 7 Mono-Fuel demonstration vehicle have found that the car's hydrogen-powered engine surpasses the super-ultra low-emission vehicle level, the most stringent emissions performance standard to date

Argonne, DOT open transportation research, computing center

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, in cooperation with the US Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, has announced the opening of the Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center in suburban Chicago.

Bioinformatics technology developed at Argonne provides new insight into microbial activities

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists may gain a new insight into the relationship between viruses and their environments thanks to a new computational technology developed by researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. This technology has already been used to identify subtle differences in the metabolic processes of microbial communities

Journal: Nature

Argonne's lithium-ion battery technology to be commercialized by Japan's Toda Kogyo

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Toda Kogyo Corp. of Japan have reached a world-wide licensing agreement for the commercial production and sales of Argonne's patented composite cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, which result in longer-lasting, safer batteries for hybrid-electric vehicles, cell phones, laptop computers and other applications.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Compound removes radioactive material from power plant waste

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Strontium 90 is a common radioactive by-product of fission in nuclear power plants. When extracted from the reactor along with other isotopes, a mixture is created made up of the radioactive material and inert ions like sodium and calcium. Scientists at US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University have developed a compound that captures the radioactive ions so they can be siphoned off and separated from inert material.

Funder: National Science Foundation

Last large piece of ATLAS detector lowered underground

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Today, researchers in the US ATLAS collaboration joined colleagues around the world to celebrate a pivotal landmark in the construction of the Large Hadron Collider -- the lowering of the final piece of the ATLAS particle detector into the underground collision hall at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

Research at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source reveals structure and behavior of collagen

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research performed at the Advanced Photon Source at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Crystal bells stay silent as physicists look for dark matter

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment today announced that they have regained the lead in the worldwide race to find the particles that make up dark matter. The CDMS experiment, conducted a half-mile underground in a mine in Soudan, Minn., again sets the world's best constraints on the properties of dark matter candidates.

Argonne scientists peel away layers of dense liquid flow dynamics

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Standard microscopy and visible light imaging techniques cannot peer into the dark and murky centers of dense-liquid jets, which has hindered scientists in their quest for a full understanding of liquid breakup in devices such as automobile fuel injectors. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a technique to peer through high-speed dense liquids using high-energy X-rays from Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source

Lensless camera uses X-rays to view nanoscale materials and biological specimens

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

X-rays have been used for decades to take pictures of broken bones, but scientists at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators have developed a lensless X-ray technique that can take images of ultra-small structures buried in nanoparticles and nanomaterials, and features within whole biological cells such as cellular nuclei.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy