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Showing releases 51-75 out of 78.
Public Release: 3-Mar-2013
 Nature MaterialsMan-made material pushes the bounds of superconductivity A multi-university team of researchers has artificially engineered a unique multilayer material that could lead to breakthroughs in both superconductivity research and in real-world applications. 
US Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences, National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact: Chang-Beom Eom
Public Release: 2-Mar-2013
ScienceMysterious electron stash found hidden among Van Allen belts US researchers, including a trio from Los Alamos National Laboratory, have witnessed the mysterious appearance of a relatively long-lived zone of high-energy electrons stored between Earth's Van Allen radiation belts. Contact: James E. Rickman
Public Release: 26-Feb-2013
NREL's economic benefit to Colorado totals $814.8 million in FY 2012 The net economic benefit of the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory to Colorado's economy was $814.8 million in fiscal year 2012, according to a study by the University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 26-Feb-2013
NREL employees honored by industry associations The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and its employees have garnered new awards and recognition from industry groups for advancing energy efficiency and renewable energy research.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 24-Feb-2013
Nature MaterialsLaser mastery narrows down sources of superconductivity Uncovering the mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity -- a phenomenon with tremendous value to advances in energy efficiency and sustainability -- remains one of the greatest and most pressing puzzles in physics. Now, using precise laser pulses and atomically perfect 2D materials, collaborating scientists have ruled out one possible source of HTS: Fleeting fluctuations called charge-density waves.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Justin Eure
Public Release: 22-Feb-2013
2013 Energy Innovation SummitPNNL rolls out its clean energy tech at ARPA-E Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will present its ARPA-E projects related to solar power, electric and natural gas vehicles, magnets, and heating and cooling at the 2013 Energy Innovation Summit, Feb. 25-27.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Franny White
Public Release: 21-Feb-2013
Solar energy to get boost from cutting-edge forecasts Applying its atmospheric expertise to solar energy, NCAR is spearheading a three-year, nationwide project to create unprecedented, 36-hour forecasts of incoming energy from the sun. The prototype system will forecast sunlight every 15 minutes over specific solar facilities, thereby enabling utilities to continuously anticipate the amount of available solar energy.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Hosansky
Public Release: 21-Feb-2013
ScienceResearchers propose new way to probe Earth's deep interior Researchers propose a new technique that might one day reveal in higher detail than ever before the composition and characteristics of the deep Earth. There's just one catch: it relies on a fifth force of nature that has not yet been detected, but which some particle physicists think might exist. If it does, this new force would connect matter at Earth's surface with matter hundreds to thousands of kilometers below, deep in Earth's mantle.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Carnegie/DOE Alliance Center
Contact: Marc Airhart
Public Release: 20-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesSearching for the solar system's chemical recipe The ratio of isotopes in elements like oxygen, sulfur, and nitrogen were once thought to be much the same everywhere, determined only by their different masses. Then isotope ratios in meteorites, interplanetary dust and gas, and the sun itself were found to differ from those on Earth. Planetary researchers now use Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source to study these "mass-independent" effects and their origins in the chemical processes of the early solar system.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, DOE Office of Science
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 20-Feb-2013
Cool Earth Solar and Sandia team up in first-ever public-private partnership on Open Campus In a public-private partnership that takes full advantage of the Livermore Valley Open Campus for the first time, Sandia National Laboratories and Cool Earth Solar have signed an agreement that could make solar energy more affordable and accessible. Contact: Mike Janes
Public Release: 19-Feb-2013
Nature MaterialsNREL and partners demonstrate quantum dots that assemble themselves Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and other labs have demonstrated a process whereby quantum dots can self-assemble at optimal locations in nanowires, a breakthrough that could improve solar cells, quantum computing, and lighting devices.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 19-Feb-2013
NREL helps communities assess their readiness for electric vehicles The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has launched a new tool to help local and regional leaders assess the readiness of their communities for the arrival of plug-in electric vehicles.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 19-Feb-2013
Nation could double energy productivity Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory have long understood that using energy more efficiently can be just as beneficial as finding new ways to produce energy more efficiently.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 17-Feb-2013
Nature PhysicsDopants dramatically alter electronic structure of superconductor Study demonstrates that doping dramatically alters the atomic-scale electronic structure of the parent of a high-temperature superconductor, with important consequences for the behavior of the current-carrying electrons. The findings could potentially point to new ways to design superconductors with improved properties.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, UK Research Council, Scottish Funding Council, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
Contact: Karen McNulty Walsh
Public Release: 17-Feb-2013
Nature ChemistrySynthetic molecule first electricity-making catalyst to use iron to split hydrogen gas To make fuel cells more economical, engineers want a fast and efficient iron-based molecule that splits hydrogen gas to make electricity. Online Feb. 17 at Nature Chemistry, researchers report such a catalyst. It is the first iron-based catalyst that converts hydrogen directly to electricity. The result moves chemists and engineers one step closer to widely affordable fuel cells.
Department of Energy
Contact: Mary Beckman
Public Release: 14-Feb-2013
Quantum cryptography put to work for electric grid security A Los Alamos National Laboratory quantum cryptography team successfully completed the first-ever demonstration of securing control data for electric grids using quantum cryptography.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Nancy Ambrosiano
Public Release: 14-Feb-2013
ScienceA dual look at photosystem II using the world's most powerful X-ray laser Artificial photosynthesis and other new technologies based on Metalloenzyme catalysis will benefit from a technique for simultaenously collecting both diffraction and spectroscopy data demonstrated by Berkeley Lab and SLAC researchers at the world's most powerful X-ray laser.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 14-Feb-2013
Molecular CellRevealing the secrets of motility in archaea The protein structure of the archaellum, the motor that propels many species of Archaea, the third domain of life, has been characterized for the first time by a team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology. A ring made of six identical proteins derives energy from hydrolyzing adenosine triphosate and uses this energy to drive shape changes, both assembling and rotating the archaellum's whiplike propeller.
National Institutes of Health, Max Planck Institute, Max Planck Society, Dutch Science Organization, US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 14-Feb-2013
ScienceX-ray laser sees photosynthesis in action Opening a new window on the way plants generate the oxygen we breathe, researchers used the LCLS X-ray free-electron laser to simultaneously look at the structure and chemical behavior of a natural catalyst involved in photosynthesis for the first time.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science
Contact: Andy Freeberg
Public Release: 12-Feb-2013
Nature MethodsNature Methods study: Using light to control cell clustering A new study from engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, pairs light and genetics to give researchers a powerful new tool for manipulating cells. Results of the study, published in the journal Nature Methods, show how blue light can be used as a switch to prompt targeted proteins to accumulate into large clusters.
US Department of Energy/Office of Basic Energy
Contact: Michael mullaney
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
New coal technology harnesses energy without burning, nears pilot-scale development A new form of clean coal technology reached an important milestone recently, with the successful operation of a research-scale combustion system at Ohio State University.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Pam Frost Gorder
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
NREL connects EVs and grid integration Engineers working at the Vehicle Testing and Integration Facility enjoy a stunning view of the Denver skyline. However, some days the view includes Denver's "brown cloud" -- air pollution caused in part by vehicle emissions. While disheartening, the brown cloud helps the engineers focus on future technologies that will drastically reduce -- and ultimately eliminate -- those emissions.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 4-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesScientists turn toxic by-product into biofuel booster Scientists studying an enzyme that naturally produces alkanes, long carbon-chain molecules that could be a direct replacement for the hydrocarbons in gasoline, have figured out why the natural reaction typically stops after three to five cycles -- and devised a strategy to keep the reaction going. The work could renew interest in using the enzyme in bacteria, algae, or plants to produce biofuels that need no further processing.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Karen McNulty Walsh
Public Release: 30-Jan-2013
American Geophysical Union Monograph SeriesStudy rebuts hypothesis that comet attacks ended 9,000-year-old Clovis culture Comet explosions and asteroid impacts could not have ended 9,000-year-old Clovis culture, study contends. Contact: nsinger
Public Release: 30-Jan-2013
NREL acquires fuel cell hybrid vehicles to support hydrogen studies The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently received four fuel cell hybrid vehicles - advanced on loan from Toyota through a two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement. These vehicles will help NREL enhance its research related to hydrogen fueling infrastructure, renewable hydrogen production, and vehicle performance.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
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