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Showing releases 76-100 out of 116.
Public Release: 20-May-2013
Not just blowing in the wind: Compressing air for renewable energy storage A comprehensive study into the potential for compressed air energy storage in the Pacific Northwest has identified two locations in Washington state that could store enough wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each month. 
Bonneville Power Administration, DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Contact: Franny White
Public Release: 19-May-2013
 Nature MaterialsKinks and curves at the nanoscale Since 2004, materials scientists and nanotechnology experts have been excited about a special of arrangement of atoms called a "coherent twin boundary" that can add enormous strength to metals like gold and copper. The CTBs are described as "perfect," appearing like a one-atom-thick plane in models and images. New research shows that these boundaries are not perfect. Even more surprising, the newly discovered kinks and defects appear to be the cause of the CTB's strength.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Joshua Brown
Public Release: 16-May-2013
ScienceStacking 2-D materials produces surprising results New experiments reveal previously unseen effects, could lead to new kinds of electronics and optical devices.
US Department of Energy, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, National Science Foundation
Contact: Sarah McDonnell
Public Release: 16-May-2013
Nano LettersArtificial forest for solar water-splitting Berkeley Lab researchers have created the first fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem. While "artificial leaf" is the popular term for such a system, the key to this success was an "artificial forest."
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 16-May-2013
ACS NanoDNA-guided assembly yields novel ribbon-like nanostructures DNA "linker" strands coax nano-sized rods to line up in way unlike any other spontaneous arrangement of rod-shaped objects. The arrangement -- with the rods forming "rungs" on ladder-like ribbons could result in the fabrication of new nanostructured materials with desired properties.
DOE Office of Science
Contact: Karen McNulty Walsh
Public Release: 14-May-2013
Saudi Arabia looks to NREL for solar monitoring expertise Saudi Arabia is planning to move aggressively into renewable energy, with plans to install more solar and wind power in the next 20 years than the rest of the world has installed to date. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is working with the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory for training and expertise in measuring its solar resource.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 9-May-2013
Nature CommunicationsFlawed diamonds promise sensory perfection By extending the coherence time of electron states to over half a second, a team of scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard University has improved the performance of one of the most potent sensors of magnetic fields on the nanoscale -- a diamond defect no bigger than a pair of atoms called a nitrogen vacancy center. The achievement is important news for nanoscale sensors and quantum computing.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Science Foundation, Israeli Ministry of Defense, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Science for Peace
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 9-May-2013
Biotechnology for BiofuelsNew advance in biofuel production Joint BioEnergy Institute researchers have developed an enzyme-free ionic liquid pretreatment of cellulosic biomass that makes it easier to recover fermentable sugars for biofuels and to recycle the ionic liquid.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 9-May-2013
ScienceHeady mathematics Two UC Berkeley applied mathematicians have found a way to mathematically describe the evolution and disappearance of a foam. Using these equations, they were able to generate a movie that shows the complex draining, popping and rearrangement of these bubbles as the foam vanishes.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, NIH/National Cancer Institute
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 8-May-2013
Nature CommunicationsSpintronics discovery In research that is helping to lay the groundwork for the electronics of the future, University of Delaware scientists have confirmed the presence of a magnetic field generated by electrons which scientists had theorized existed, but that had never been proven until now.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Andrea Boyle Tippett
Public Release: 8-May-2013
NatureResearchers find a way to make steel without greenhouse-gas emissions Steelmaking, a major emitter of climate-altering gases, could be transformed by a new process developed at MIT.
American Iron and Steel Institute, US Department of Energy
Contact: Sarah McDonnell
Public Release: 7-May-2013
NREL quantifies significant value in concentrating solar power Researchers from the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory have quantified the significant value that concentrating solar power plants can add to an electric grid.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 7-May-2013
Energy & Environmental ScienceCombining strategies speeds the work of enzymes Enzymes could break down cell walls faster -- leading to less expensive biofuels for transportation -- if two enzyme systems are brought together in an industrial setting, new research by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory suggests.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 7-May-2013
NREL staff recognized for breakthrough technologies The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently recognized the professionals behind the lab's greatest innovations from the past year during its Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer Awards.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 6-May-2013
May 2013 story tips from Oak Ridge National Laboratory The following are story ideas from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory for May 2013. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 30-Apr-2013
Nature CommunicationsIs antimatter anti-gravity? UC Berkeley scientists and colleagues with the ALPHA collaboration at CERN are working on an experiment to directly measure gravity's effect on antihydrogen in freefall, and have some very rough initial results.
CERN, US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 30-Apr-2013
Nature CommunicationsDoes antimatter fall up or down? Theory and observations support the view that antimatter experiences gravity just as ordinary matter does, but the evidence so far has been indirect. Indeed, some theorists speculate that antimatter is antigravitational, that it may fall "up" instead of "down."
Department of Energy Office of Science, ALPHA Collaboration
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 26-Apr-2013
Changing cellulose-forming process may tap plants' biofuel potential Changing the way a plant forms cellulose may lead to more efficient, less expensive biofuel production, according to Penn State engineers.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Matthew Swayne
Public Release: 25-Apr-2013
NatureBold move forward in molecular analyses New metrics for analyzing data from small angle scattering experiments should dramatically improve the ability of scientists to study the structures of macromolecules such as proteins and nanoparticles in solution.
US Department of Energy Office of Science, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 24-Apr-2013
Nature CommunicationsSpeeding the search for better methane capture Systematic in silico studies have identified several zeolite compounds that show technological promise for capturing methane, the main component of natural gas, that can serve as an ally or an adversary in combating global climate change.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 24-Apr-2013
Energy & Environmental ScienceNew battery design could help solar and wind power the grid Researchers from SLAC and Stanford have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid.
US Department of Energy Office of Science, Stanford University, US Department of Energy Joint Center for Energy Storage Research
Contact: Andy Freeberg
Public Release: 24-Apr-2013
Energy & Environmental ScienceRecipe for low-cost, biomass-derived catalyst for hydrogen production Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory describe details of a low-cost, stable, effective catalyst that could replace costly platinum in the production of hydrogen. The catalyst, made from renewable soybeans and abundant molybdenum metal, produces hydrogen in an environmentally friendly, cost-effective manner, potentially increasing the use of this clean energy source.
Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Karen McNulty Walsh
Public Release: 23-Apr-2013
Nano LettersNanowires grown on graphene have surprising structure When a team of University of Illinois engineers set out to grow nanowires of a compound semiconductor on top of a sheet of graphene, they did not expect to discover a new paradigm of epitaxy. The self-assembled wires have a core of one composition and an outer layer of another, a desired trait for many advanced electronics applications.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Liz Ahlberg
Public Release: 23-Apr-2013
Physical Review LettersCause of LED efficiency droop finally revealed UCSB and Ecole Polytechnique researchers have conclusively identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes light emitting diodes to be less efficient at high drive currents.
US Department of Energy, Office of Science
Contact: Melissa Van De Werfhorst
Public Release: 19-Apr-2013
Journal of the American Chemical SocietyFreedom of assembly Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have, for the first time, captured movies of nanoparticle self-assembly, giving researchers a new glimpse of an unusual material property.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Jared Sagoff
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