Public Release: 21-Jun-2013
Physical Review Letters
Ames Laboratory scientists solve riddle of strangely behaving magnetic material
Materials scientists at the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have found an accurate way to explain the magnetic properties of a lanthanum-cobalt-oxygen compound that has mystified the scientific community for decades.
US Deptartment of Energy's Office of Science

Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
Nature Materials
Ames Laboratory scientists discover new family of quasicrystals
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered a new family of rare-earth quasicrystals using an algorithm they developed to help pinpoint them. Their research resulted in finding the only known magnetic rare earth icosahedral binary quasicrystals, now providing a "matched set" of magnetic quasicrystals and their closely related periodic cousins.
Department of Energy's Office of Science

Public Release: 5-Jun-2013
Nature Communications
Resistivity switch is window to role of magnetism in iron-based superconductors
Physicists at the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered surprising changes in electrical resistivity in iron-based superconductors. The findings offer further evidence that magnetism and superconductivity are closely related in this class of novel superconductors.
US Department of Energy Office of Science