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Showing releases 26-50 out of 109.
Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
 Energy & Environmental ScienceGetting the carbon out of emissions MIT researchers propose method to remove carbon from emissions that could be more efficient than previous systems and easier to retrofit in existing power plants. 
Siemens AG, US Department of Energy
Contact: Sarah McDonnell
Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
IAEA International Conference on Nuclear Security: Enhancing Global EffortsLos Alamos/Tribogenics create highly portable imaging system Los Alamos National Laboratory and Tribogenics, the pioneer of innovative X-ray solutions, have partnered to create a unique, lightweight, compact, low-cost X-ray system that uses the MiniMAX (Miniature, Mobile, Agile, X-ray) camera to provide real-time inspection of sealed containers and facilities. The innovative technology will be featured at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) International Conference on Nuclear Security: Enhancing Global Efforts, July 1-5, in Vienna, Austria. Contact: James E. Rickman
Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
DOE, NREL announce new research center to boost clean energy technologies on a smarter grid The Energy Department and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory today announced the Energy Systems Integration Facility in Golden, Colorado, as the latest Energy Department user facility and the only one in the nation focused on utility-scale clean energy grid integration. The facility's first industry partner -- Colorado-based Advanced Energy Industries -- has already signed on to start work at ESIF, developing lower cost, better performing solar power inverters.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists ConferenceNREL reports 31.1 percent efficiency for III-V solar cell The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Lab has announced a world record of 31.1 percent conversion efficiency for a two-junction solar cell under one sun of illumination.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
NREL drives toward the future with fuel cell EVs Efforts currently underway at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory are contributing to rapid progress in the research, development and testing of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 21-Jun-2013
Physical Review LettersAmes 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
Contact: Laura Millsaps
Public Release: 21-Jun-2013
Advanced MaterialsBeyond silicon: Transistors without semiconductors Scientists at Michigan Technological University have built a nanoscale transistor that works at room temperature. The device, only 20 nanometers wide, is made of gold quantum dots mounted on boron nitride nanotubes. It was built in collaboration with colleagues at Oak Ridge National Lab.
US Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Contact: Marcia Goodrich
Public Release: 19-Jun-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesLess is more: Novel cellulose structure requires fewer enzymes to process biomass to fuel Improved methods for breaking down cellulose nanofibers are central to cost-effective biofuel production and the subject of new research from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center. Scientists are investigating the unique properties of crystalline cellulose nanofibers to develop novel chemical pretreatments and designer enzymes for biofuel production from cellulosic -- or non-food -- plant-derived biomass.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Nancy Ambrosiano
Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
4 Argonne National Laboratory scientists named Distinguished Fellows Four scientists at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have been named Argonne Distinguished Fellows, the laboratory's highest scientific honor. Contact: Jared Sagoff
Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNovel enzyme from tiny gribble could prove a boon for biofuels research Researchers from the United Kingdom, the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the University of Kentucky have recently published a paper describing a novel cellulose-degrading enzyme from a marine wood borer Limnoria quadripunctata, commonly known as the gribble.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
Advanced MaterialsPrinting tiny batteries Three-dimensional printing can now be used to print lithium-ion microbatteries the size of a grain of sand. The printed microbatteries could supply electricity to tiny devices in fields from medicine to communications, including many that have lingered on lab benches for lack of a battery small enough to fit the device, yet provide enough stored energy to power them.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Dan Ferber
Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
US and Canadian researchers drive towards cheaper fuel cells for electric cars A million electric cars could be on roads across North America before the end of the decade with the help of research by the United States Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Waterloo.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Nick Manning
Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
Stop hyperventilating, say energy efficiency researchers A single advanced building control now in development could slash 18 percent -- tens of thousands of dollars -- off the overall annual energy bill of the average large office building, with no loss of comfort. Instead of running ventilation full blast whenever just a single person is in the room, customize the amount of ventilation based on the number of people actually present.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Tom Rickey
Public Release: 12-Jun-2013
Journal of the American Chemical SocietyDiscovery of new material state counterintuitive to laws of physics Dense materials made porous, doubling the number of nanotraps for use as water filters, chemical sensors, sequestration, hydrogen fuel cell storage, drug delivery, and catalysis.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Tona Kunz
Public Release: 12-Jun-2013
NatureChalking up a marine blooming alga: Genome fills a gap in the tree of life Carbon dioxide is released when the calcium carbonate "armor" of the photosynthetic alga Emiliania huxleyi forms, but Ehux can trap as much as 20 percent of organic carbon derived from CO2 in some marine ecosystems. Its versatility in either contributing to primary production or adding to CO2 emissions makes Ehux a critical player in the marine carbon cycle. The Ehux genome sequence was compared with other algal sequences in the June 12, 2013 edition of Nature.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: David Gilbert
Public Release: 12-Jun-2013
NatureNano-thermometer enables first atomic-scale heat transfer measurements In findings that could help overcome a major technological hurdle in the road toward smaller and more powerful electronics, an international research team involving University of Michigan engineering researchers, has shown the unique ways in which heat dissipates at the tiniest scales.
US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering
Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
NREL teams with Navy, private industry to make jet fuel from switchgrass The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory is partnering with Cobalt Technologies, U.S. Navy, and Show Me Energy Cooperative to demonstrate that jet fuel can be made economically and in large quantities from a renewable biomass feedstock such as switch grass.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
NREL adds eyes, brains to occupancy detection It's a gnawing frustration of modern office life. You're sitting quietly -- too quietly -- in an office or carrel, and suddenly the lights go off.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
Nano Letters'Popcorn' particle pathways promise better lithium-ion batteries Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have confirmed the particle-by-particle mechanism by which lithium ions move in and out of electrodes made of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4, or LFP), findings that could lead to better performance in lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles, medical equipment and aircraft. The research is reported in te journal Nano Letters, 2013, 13 (3), pp 866-872. Contact: Mike Janes
Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
Physical Chemistry Chemical PhysicsTesting artificial photosynthesis Berkeley Lab researchers, working at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, have developed the first fully integrated microfluidic test-bed for evaluating and optimizing solar-driven electrochemical energy conversion systems. This test-bed system has already been used to study schemes for photovoltaic electrolysis of water, and can be readily adapted to study proposed artificial photosynthesis and fuel cell technologies.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
Nature MaterialsAmes 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
Contact: Laura Millsaps
Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesUnfrozen mystery: H2O reveals a new secret Using revolutionary new techniques, a team led by Carnegie's Malcolm Guthrie has made a striking discovery about how ice behaves under pressure, changing ideas that date back almost 50 years. Their findings could alter our understanding of how the water molecule responds to conditions found deep within planets and could have implications for energy science.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Malcolm Guthrie
Public Release: 5-Jun-2013
Angewandte Chemie International EditionNew all-solid sulfur-based battery outperforms lithium-ion technology Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion technologies that power today's electronics. Contact: Morgan McCorkle
Public Release: 5-Jun-2013
Nature CommunicationsResistivity 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
Contact: Breehan Gerleman Lucchesi
Public Release: 5-Jun-2013
Nature CommunicationsIncreased NMR/MRI sensitivity through hyperpolarization of nuclei in diamond Berkeley Lab researchers have demonstrated the first magnetically-controlled nearly complete hyperpolarization of the spins of carbon-13 nuclei located near synthetic defects in diamond crystals. This spin hyperpolarization, which can be carried out with refrigerator-style magnets at room temperature, enhances NMR/MRI sensitivity by many orders of magnitude.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
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