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Magnetic 'handedness' could lead to better magnetic storage devices

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Better magnetic storage devices for computers and other electronics could result from new work by researchers in the United States and Germany.

Journal: Nature
Funder: German National Science Foundation

Maxwell Technologies collaborates with Argonne on ultracapacitor/lithium-ion battery for hybrids

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Maxwell Technologies Inc. announced today that it will supply ultracapacitor cells and integration kits to the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory for a collaborative research project to assemble and evaluate an integrated ultracapacitor/lithium-ion battery energy storage system for hybrid-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles.

Argonne, Northwestern seek ANSER to solar energy challenges

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Helping the world meet increasing energy needs through solar energy will be the goal of a new joint collaborative established by the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University.

New '1/f noise' discovery promises to improve semiconductor-based sensors

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

More sensitive sensors and detectors based on semiconductor electronics could result from new findings by researchers from the United States, Norway and Russia.

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

New 'layered-layered' materials for rechargeable lithium batteries

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new approach to increasing the capacity and stability of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The technology is based on a new material for the positive electrode that is comprised of a unique nano-crystalline, layered-composite structure.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: 211th National Meeting of the Electrochemistry Society

Argonne's Joachimiak and Rosenbaum honored with the 2007 Compton Award

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Department of Energy's Advanced Photon Source and the APS Users Organization have announced that the 2007 Arthur H. Compton Award will be presented jointly to Andrzej Joachimiak and Gerold Rosenbaum of Argonne National Laboratory for pioneering advances and leadership that helped to establish the APS as a premier location worldwide for protein crystallography research.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: Users Week 2007

Laser-trapping of rare element gets unexpected assist

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Argonne researchers have successfully laser-cooled and trapped atoms of radium -- the first time this rare element has been captured in a magneto-optical trap -- with an assist from an unexpected source.

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

New VERITAS telescope array may help find 'dark matter'

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists in the Northern Hemisphere have opened a new window on the universe allowing them to explore and understand the cosmos at a much higher level of precision than was previously available. Think of it as acquiring a new pair of glasses that allow you to see more clearly. These new "glasses" are VERITAS, (the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System), a major new ground-based gamma-ray observatory, designed to provide an in-depth examination of the universe.

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

Researchers develop technique for bacteria crowd control

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A surprising technique to concentrate, manipulate and separate a wide class of swimming bacteria has been identified through a collaboration between researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois Institute of technology, University of Arizona at Tucson and Cambridge University, UK. This device could have enormous applications in biotechnology and biomedical engineering including use in miniaturized medical diagnostic kits and bioanalysis.

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

Diffraction and scattering -- the solution to what's in solution

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Notre Dame have successfully applied X-ray scattering techniques to determine how dissolved metal ions interact in solution. These findings will help researchers better understand how metal ions, such as those found in nuclear waste and other industrial processes, behave in the environment.

Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy