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12-Jun-2023
Kevin Wilson: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner
DOE/US Department of Energy
Kevin Wilson studies how chemistry proceeds at liquid interfaces on cloud droplets, atmospheric aerosols, and ocean surfaces. With the support of his 2012 Early Career award, his team focused on reactions between gases and surfaces of ozone and hydroxyl radicals in the atmosphere.
12-Jun-2023
Good vibrations
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Like most scientists, Chengping Chai is not content with the surface of things: He wants to probe beyond to learn what’s really going on. But in his case, he is literally building a map of the world beneath, using seismic and acoustic data that reveal when and where the earth moves. Yet earthquakes are not the focus of Chai’s research at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is using these waves to make waves — creating new opportunities for developing clean energy and enhancing sensing capabilities around nuclear reactors.
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- Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
8-Jun-2023
Boosting energy efficiency
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers, in collaboration with Enginuity Power Systems, demonstrated that a micro combined heat and power prototype, or mCHP, with a piston engine can achieve an overall energy efficiency greater than 93%.
7-Jun-2023
David receives Joining and Welding Science Award
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Stan David, retired scientist and Corporate Fellow Emeritus at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was awarded the Joining and Welding Science Award from the Joining and Welding Research Institute at Osaka University, Japan.
5-Jun-2023
It's your nickel: Small changes in materials could lead to big improvements in fast charging
DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
The key to developing an electric vehicle battery that can charge as quickly as it takes to fill a car with gasoline lies within its materials.
5-Jun-2023
Argonne’s Autonomous Vehicle Competition returns to the spotlight
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne has resumed its annual Autonomous Vehicle Competition, which brings Argonne engineering to the Museum of Science and Industry and challenges students to experiment, develop, and document their own self-driving vehicles.
2-Jun-2023
Advincula receives Netzsch NATAS Fellows Award
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Rigoberto Advincula, a renowned scientist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Tennessee, has won the Netzsch North American Thermal Analysis Society (NATAS) Fellows Award for 2023.
1-Jun-2023
How fiber-optic sensing and new materials could reduce the cost of floating offshore wind
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
In this Q&A, Berkeley Lab's Yuxin Wu discusses how scientists are developing sensing technologies that could be installed on floating offshore structures. This would allow the structures to self-monitor damaging conditions that could lead to costly repairs, and could also gauge impacts to marine mammals.
1-Jun-2023
Transforming plants into allies in the fight against climate change
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Nature-based solutions are an effective tool to combat climate change triggered by rising carbon emissions, whether it’s by clearing the skies with bio-based aviation fuels or boosting natural carbon sinks. At the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists are leading research to transform plants into key drivers of decarbonization, from creating biomass crops for new fuels to enhancing the ability of plants to absorb and store carbon.