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Showing releases 1-25 out of 106 releases.
Public Release: 22-Nov-2009
 Nature ChemistryNew hydrogen-storage method discovered Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found for the first time that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. The discovery paves the way for a new approach to the hydrogen-storage problem. The researchers found that the normally nonreactive, noble gas xenon combines with molecular hydrogen under pressure to form a previously unknown solid with unusual bonding chemistry. The discovery debuts a new family of materials, which could boost hydrogen technologies. 
US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, National Science Foundation
Contact: Maddury Somayazulu
Public Release: 20-Nov-2009
Lehigh receives grant to reduce cost of carbon capture at coal-fired power plants A US Department of Energy grant will help develop methods of recovering and reusing heat generated by the compression of CO2 in a carbon-capture system. The goal is to facilitate carbon capture and sequestration and limit the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere by coal-fired power plants. Unlike other modeling studies, which focus on specific components of the carbon-capture system, the Lehigh researchers will look at the entire power plant.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Kurt Pfitzer
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
ScienceAmaizing: Corn genome decoded In recent years, scientists have decoded the DNA of humans and a menagerie of creatures but none with genes as complex as a stalk of corn, the latest genome to be unraveled. A team of scientists led by the Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis published the completed corn genome in the Nov. 20 journal Science, an accomplishment that will speed efforts to develop better crop varieties to meet the world's growing demands for food, livestock feed and fuel.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Energy
Contact: Caroline Arbanas
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
Physical Review LettersProton's party pals may alter its internal structure A recent experiment at the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, South African National Research Foundation
Contact: Kandice Carter
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
NatureNew study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: a remarkably flat molecule made of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings much like molecular chicken wire.
Microsoft Project Q, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, US Department of Energy
Contact: David F. Salisbury
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
American Nuclear Society MeetingAdvanced nuclear fuel sets global performance record Idaho National Laboratory scientists have set a new world record with next-generation particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Teri Ehresman
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is World's fastest An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is the scientific research community's most powerful computational tool for exploring solutions to some of today's most difficult problems. Contact: Mike Bradley
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
New funding will stimulate alternative energy research Initiatives to provide geothermal heating or power at the Pueblo of Jemez and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology campus are receiving Los Alamos National Laboratory assistance, thanks to recent American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funding.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Contact: James E. Rickman
Public Release: 13-Nov-2009
ScienceBerkeley researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics By applying epitaxial strain to thin films of bismuth ferrite, Berkeley Lab researchers have produced a lead-free alternative to the current crop of piezoelectric materials.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 12-Nov-2009
LLNL licenses carbon nanotube technology to local company Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has exclusively licensed to Porifera Inc. of Hayward a carbon nanotube technology that can be used to desalinate water, and can be applied to other liquid based separations. Contact: Anne Stark
Public Release: 9-Nov-2009
National Academy report cites Ames Laboratory's strength in new materials research The US is no longer the world leader in development of new crystalline materials, according to a report by the National Academy of Sciences. However, the report calls the US Department of Energy's national labs a bright spot, and Ames Laboratory is cited for new materials research and as a training ground for new researchers.
National Academy of Sciences
Contact: Kerry Gibson
Public Release: 9-Nov-2009
Nature MaterialsNew transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays Materials scientists have found a way to transform a chemical long used as an electrical conductor a thin film insulator potentially useful in transistor technology and in devices such as electronic books.
US Department of Energy, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation
Contact: Phil Sneiderman
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory names 6 scientists as 2009 Fellows Antoinette "Toni" Taylor, Stephen Becker, Joachim Birn, Lowell Brown, Patrick Colestock and Samuel "Tom" Picraux have been designated 2009 Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows in recognition of sustained, outstanding scientific contributions and exceptional promise for continued professional achievement. Contact: Steve Sandoval
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
November 2009 story tips from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fuel economy ratings for the new 2010 model year automobiles are posted at www.fueleconomy.gov, which ORNL maintains for the US Department of Energy and the US Environmental Protection Agency. A team led by ORNL's Nina Balke has moved closer to developing more rugged memory and logic devices. Heavy trucks are less heavy but just as safe and rugged because of steel rail frames. A new approach to crunching massive volumes of data uses neural networks like an artificial brain. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Science ExpressRapid supernova could be new class of exploding star UC Berkeley post-doc Dovi Poznanski was looking through seven-year-old data when he chanced upon a very strange supernova that flashed and was gone in less than a month, when 3-4 months is typical. The unusually rapid supernova appears to match the predicted behavior of a thermonuclear explosion on a white dwarf that is drawing helium from its binary companion. This mechanism is quite different from the two standard types of supernovae.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Katzman Foundation
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
ScienceHow size matters for catalysts University of Utah chemists demonstrated the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical reactions. The study is a step toward the goal of designing cheaper, more efficient catalysts to increase energy production, reduce Earth-warming gases and manufacture a wide variety of goods from medicines to gasoline.
US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, US Department of Energy
Contact: Lee Siegel
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
Report on US-China collaboration on carbon capture and sequestration Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Julio Friedmann, in collaboration with the Center for American Progress, the Asia Society Center and with partner Monitor Group, today released the report, "A Roadmap for US-China Collaboration on Carbon Capture and Sequestration." Contact: Anne Stark
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill in September. The 2.6-acre site is located in Technical Area 3 in the west-central part of Kirtland Air Force Base. Contact: Stephanie Holinka
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
2 grants to ASU will help change the way the US generates and consumes energy The US Department of Energy has awarded Arizona State University two grants for alternative energy research that are part of a special DOE program to pursue high-risk, high-reward advances with the potential to change the way the nation generates and consumes energy. ASU's grants, totaling more than $10 million, are among 37 new DOE grants totaling $151 million to support the program.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Skip Derra
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
UD wins $4.4 million to develop next-generation magnets The University of Delaware has won a $4.4 million grant from the US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency to lead a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research project to develop the next generation of high-performance permanent magnets.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Tracey Bryant
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
Earth and Planetary Science Letters'Ultra-primitive' particles found in comet dust Dust samples collected from the stratosphere have yielded an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution. The dust includes presolar grains and material from interstellar molecular clouds. This "ultra-primitive" material likely wafted into the atmosphere after the Earth passed through the trail of an Earth-crossing comet in 2003, giving scientists a rare opportunity to study cometary dust in the laboratory.
NASA, NASA Astrobiology Institute, US Office of Naval Research, US Department of Energy
Contact: Larry Nittler
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
Science begins at the world's most powerful X-ray laser The first experiments are now underway using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Illuminating objects and processes at unprecedented speed and scale, the LCLS has embarked on groundbreaking research in physics, structural biology, energy science, chemistry and a host of other fields.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Melinda Lee
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
Astrophysical JournalHigh-precision measurements confirm cosmologists' standard view of the universe A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by Sarah Church of KIPAC, jointly located SLAC and Stanford University, and by Walter Gear, of Cardiff University. These measurements put limits on proposed alternatives to the standard model of cosmology and provide further support for the standard cosmological model, confirming that dark matter and dark energy make up 95 percent of everything in existence. Contact: Kelen Tuttle
Public Release: 29-Oct-2009
LANL Roadrunner simulates nanoscale material failure How nanowires evolve under stress is simulated atom-by-atom over a period of time that is closer than ever to experimental reality. Contact: Kevin Roark
Public Release: 29-Oct-2009
SciencePinning down superconductivity to a single layer Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer responsible for one such material's ability to become superconducting, i.e., carry electrical current with no energy loss. The technique, described in the Oct. 30, 2009, issue of Science, could be used to engineer ultrathin films with "tunable" superconductivity for higher-efficiency electronic devices.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Karen McNulty Walsh
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