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Showing releases 1-25 out of 76.
Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
ORNL develops lignin-based thermoplastic conversion process Turning lignin, a plant's structural "glue" and a byproduct of the paper and pulp industry, into something considerably more valuable is driving a research effort headed by Amit Naskar of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Lawrence Livermore's Keane and Long elected AAAS Fellows Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Christopher Keane and Jane Long have been awarded the distinction of fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Contact: Breanna Bishop
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Greener storage for green energy Renewable energy solutions like wind and solar operate on nature's timetable. Power is plentiful -- but not necessarily at the moments when consumers need it. To give renewables a fighting chance, a team led by engineers and chemists at Harvard will use a one-year, $600,000 innovation grant from the US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy program to develop a new type of storage battery. 
US Department of Energy
Contact: Michael Patrick Rutter
Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
ARPA-e awards $130 million for transformation energy technology projects Sixty six cutting-edge research projects have been selected by the Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to receive a total of $130 million in funding.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Jeff Sherwood
Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
NREL updates solar radiation database The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and collaborators released a 20-year updated version of the US National Solar Radiation Database, a web-based technical report that provides critical information about solar and meteorological data for 1,454 locations in the US and its territories.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
 ScienceNREL researchers use imaging technologies to solve puzzle of plant architecture Scientists at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the BioEnergy Science Center combined different microscopic imaging methods to gain a greater understanding of the relationships between biomass cell wall structure and enzyme digestibility, a breakthrough that could lead to optimizing sugar yields and lowering the costs of making biofuels.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
The installed price of solar photovoltaic systems in the US continues to decline at a rapid pace The installed price of solar photovoltaic power systems in the United States fell substantially in 2011 and through the first half of 2012, according to the latest edition of Tracking the Sun, an annual PV cost-tracking report produced by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
US Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Program, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Contact: Allan Chen
Public Release: 26-Nov-2012
Researchers test novel power system for space travel A team of researchers, including engineers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, has demonstrated a new concept for a reliable nuclear reactor that could be used on space flights. Contact: James E. Rickman
Public Release: 22-Nov-2012
ScienceMagnesium oxide: From Earth to super-Earth The mantles of Earth and other rocky planets are rich in magnesium and oxygen. Due to its simplicity, the mineral magnesium oxide is a good model for studying the nature of planetary interiors. New work from a team led by Carnegie's Stewart McWilliams studied how magnesium oxide behaves under the extreme conditions deep within planets and found evidence that alters our understanding of planetary evolution.
US Department of Energy, US Army Research Office, Krell Institute, Miller Institute, University of California
Contact: Stewart McWilliams
Public Release: 16-Nov-2012
Advanced MaterialsORNL recipe for oxide interface perfection opens path to novel materials By tweaking the formula for growing oxide thin films, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory achieved virtual perfection at the interface of two insulator materials. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
Environmental Science and TechnologyAirborne particles smuggle pollutants to far reaches of globe Pollution from fossil fuel burning and forest fires reaches all the way to the Arctic, even though it should decay long before it travels that far. Now, lab research can explain how pollution makes its lofty journey: rather than ride on the surface of airborne particles, pollutants snuggle inside, protected from the elements on the way. The results will help scientists improve atmospheric air-quality and pollution transport models.
Department of Energy
Contact: Mary Beckman
Public Release: 14-Nov-2012
Titan is also a green powerhouse Not only is Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan the world's most powerful supercomputer, it is also one of the most energy efficient. Contact: Morgan L. McCorkle
Public Release: 12-Nov-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesA better route to xylan JBEI researchers have identified a gene in rice plants whose suppression improves both the extraction of xylan and the overall release of the sugars needed to make biofuels.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 8-Nov-2012
NatureMore bang for the biofuel buck Berkeley Lab researchers have shown that a fermentation process used in World War I to make cordite for bullets and artillery shells, in combination with a modern palladium catalyst could produce gasoline, diesel or jet fuel from the sugars found in biomass.
Energy Biosciences Institute
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 8-Nov-2012
ScienceNanocrystals and nickel catalyst substantially improve light-based hydrogen production Hydrogen is an attractive fuel source because it can easily be converted into electric energy and gives off no greenhouse emissions. A group of chemists at the University of Rochester is adding to its appeal by increasing the output and lowering the cost of current light-driven hydrogen-production systems.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Peter Iglinski
Public Release: 5-Nov-2012
Nature ChemistryResearchers make strides toward selective oxidation catalysts Solid catalysts tend to be highly reactive, but more efficient chemical processes require that catalysts be more scrupulous about their reactants. Now Northwestern University researchers have a new method for making selective oxidation catalysts, a step that could lead to greener energy.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Megan Fellman
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Americans use more efficient and renewable energy technologies Americans used less energy in 2011 than in the previous year due mainly to a shift to higher-efficiency energy technologies in the transportation and residential sectors. Meanwhile, less coal was used but more natural gas was consumed according to the most recent energy flow charts released by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Contact: Anne Stark
Public Release: 23-Oct-2012
Nature CommunicationsHigh-pressure science gets super-sized The study of materials at extreme conditions took a giant leap forward with the discovery of a way to generate super high pressures without using shock waves whose accompanying heat turns solids to liquid. This discovery will allow scientists for the first time to reach static pressure levels exceeding four million atmospheres, a high-pressure environment where new unique compounds could be formed, materials change their chemical and physical properties, and metals become insulators.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Tona Kunz
Public Release: 23-Oct-2012
ACS Synthetic BiologyTraining your robot the PaR-PaR way PaR-PaR, a simple high-level, biology-friendly, robot-programming language developed by researchers at JBEI and Berkeley Lab, uses an object-oriented approach to make it easier to integrate robotic equipment into biological laboratories. Effective robots can increase research productivity, lower costs and provide more reliable and reproducible experimental data.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 23-Oct-2012
Neutron experiments give unprecedented look at quantum oscillations Researchers at ORNL have found that nitrogen atoms in the compound uranium nitride exhibit unexpected, distinct vibrations that form a nearly ideal realization of a physics textbook model known as the isotropic quantum harmonic oscillator. Contact: Bill Cabage
Public Release: 23-Oct-2012
Iowa State researchers double down on heat to break up cellulose, produce fuels and power Iowa State University engineers and researchers have built and are testing a bio-oil gasifier. It will allow them to combine two thermochemical technologies to produce the next generation of fuels from renewable sources such as corn stalks and wood chips.
US Department of Energy, Iowa Energy Center
Contact: Robert C. Brown
Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
From form to function: 2013 DOE JGI Community Sequencing Program portfolio announced For genomics researchers, the term "form to function" could be applied to the ongoing transition from not just studying an organism's genetic code to also understanding the roles those genes play. All the projects selected for the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute's 2013 Community Sequencing Program portfolio combine sequence data generation with large-scale experimental and computational capabilities to enable fuller functional genome annotation.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: David Gilbert
Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
Angewandte Chemie International EditionNew cobalt-graphene catalyst could challenge platinum for use in fuel cells There's a new contender in the race to find an inexpensive alternative to platinum catalysts for use in hydrogen fuel cells. Brown University chemist Shouheng Sun and his students have developed a new material -- a graphene sheet covered by cobalt and cobalt-oxide nanoparticles -- that can catalyze the oxygen reduction reaction nearly as well as platinum does and is substantially more durable.
US Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Fuel
Contact: Kevin Stacey
Public Release: 16-Oct-2012
Pitt engineers to design affordable CO2 thickener to augment oil extraction Crude oil extraction could be improved significantly and accessible domestic oil reserves could be expanded with an economical CO2 thickener being developed by University of Pittsburgh engineers, thanks to a $1.3 million grant from the US Department of Energy.
US Department of Energy
Contact: B. Rose Huber
Public Release: 16-Oct-2012
SDSU receives Department of Energy grant for solar research The grant, from the SunShot Initiative, will enable Dr. Fletcher Miller and his team of graduate and undergraduate student researchers to take a lab-scale model and, over the next four years, develops a full-scale model that will be tested at the National Solar Thermal Testing Facility in New Mexico.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Greg Block
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