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Assessing the impact of human-induced climate change

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research develop and apply new method to determine whether specific climate impacts can be traced to human-caused emissions.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

One-stop shop for biofuels

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute have developed a 'high-gravity' one-pot process for producing ethanol from cellulosic biomass that gives unprecedented yields while minimizing water use and waste disposal.

Journal: Energy & Environmental Science
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Researchers pinpoint the drivers for low-priced PV systems in the United States

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The price of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems installed on homes and small businesses spans a wide range, and researchers from Berkeley Lab have published a new study that reveals the key market and system drivers for low-priced PV systems.

Funder: US Department of Energy SunShot Initiative

Livermore scientists find global ocean warming has doubled in recent decades

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lawrence Livermore scientists, working with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and university colleagues, have found that half of the global ocean heat content increase since 1865 has occurred over the past two decades.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

Berkeley Lab launches new projects for grid modernization

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz announced awards today as part of two new additions to DOE's ongoing Grid Modernization Initiative. Berkeley Lab will lead two projects and partner in several others. In total, the Secretary announced up to $220 million for 88 new projects across 14 National Laboratories to deliver new grid concepts, tools and technologies to support the nation's effort to modernize the power grid.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Technique matters: A different way to make cathodes may mean better batteries

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide, or NMC, is one of the most promising chemistries for better lithium batteries, especially for electric vehicle applications, but scientists have been struggling to get higher capacity out of them. Now researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found that using a different method to make the material can offer substantial improvements.

Journal: Nature Energy
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

A simple way to make lithium-ion battery electrodes that protect themselves

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at three Department of Energy national laboratories have discovered how to keep a promising new type of lithium ion battery cathode from developing a crusty coating that degrades its performance. The solution: Use a simple manufacturing technique to form the cathode material into tiny, layered particles that store a lot of energy while protecting themselves from damage.

Journal: Nature Energy

SLAC's Stanley Brodsky shares Pomeranchuk Prize for theoretical physics

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Stan Brodsky, a professor of particle physics and astrophysics at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has received the 2015 Pomeranchuk Prize from the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) in Moscow, Russia. He shares the award with Russian physicist Victor Fadin.

A nanoscale look at why a new alloy is amazingly tough

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers led by scientists from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has identified several mechanisms that make a new, cold-loving material one of the toughest metallic alloys ever.

Journal: Nature Communications

Dawson Award recognizes SLAC X-ray laser experiment that probed 3.6-million-degree matter

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Eight scientists have shared the 2015 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research for an experiment that used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to create and probe 3.6-million-degree matter in a controlled way for the first time.