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DOE announces $178 million to advance bioenergy technology

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $178 million for bioenergy research to advance sustainable technology breakthroughs that can improve public health, help address climate change, improve food and agricultural production, and create more resilient supply chains. This funding will support cutting-edge biotechnology R&D of bioenergy crops, industrial microorganisms, and microbiomes. Alternative clean energy sources like bioenergy are playing a key role in reaching President Biden’s goal of a net-zero carbon economy by 2050.

Breakthrough reported in machine learning-enhanced quantum chemistry

DOE/US Department of Energy

The equations of quantum mechanics require too much computer time and power when used to predict behavior in large systems. Researchers have now shown that machine learning models can mimic the basic structure from first principles, which can be very difficult to simulate directly. The result is predictions that are easy to compute and are accurate in a wide range of chemical systems.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Department of Energy announces $21 million to support energy-relevant research in underrepresented regions

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $21 million in funding for 29 new projects through the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). By coupling innovative ideas from EPSCoR-eligible institutions with leading-edge capabilities at the DOE national laboratories, the grants are aimed to enhance the research of EPSCoR investigators while building expertise and capabilities that will enable the institutions to compete more successfully for other federal R&D funding. In this way, the DOE EPSCoR program advances the geographic diversity of researchers conducting competitive energy-related research.

Innovative FRIB liquid-lithium charge stripper boosts accelerator performance

DOE/US Department of Energy

A charge stripper is an important component in the process the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) uses to create rare isotopes for scientific research. However, FRIB’s particle beam is too powerful for a conventional charge stripper. Researchers developed a new liquid-lithium charge stripper that can produce as high a charge state as a conventional solid charge stripper and last indefinitely.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Nuclear cauldrons: studying star burning with radioactive and neutron beams

DOE/US Department of Energy

Scientists have long theorized that carbon-12 could form in stars in the “Hoyle state,” an excited form of carbon-12, then decay through the fusing of three alpha particles to form ground state carbon and energy. Researchers have now tested the role of neutron upscattering in the fusing of the alpha particles. The results indicate that upscattering plays a less important role in the formation of carbon in stars than originally thought.

Journal: Nature Communications

DOE announces $66 million to research the impact of climate change on America's urban communities

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $66 million in funding for three projects, together involving over 20 institutions, that will develop Urban Integrated Field Laboratories (Urban IFLs) in Baltimore, MD, Chicago, IL, and the Texas Gulf Coast.

Department of Energy announces $35 million for scientific discovery through advanced computing (SciDAC) partnership in nuclear physics

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $35 million for three joint projects in Nuclear Physics (NP) and Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) via a partnership program of Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC).

Uncovering the atomic mechanism underpinning heat transport in thermoelectric materials

DOE/US Department of Energy

To better understand how thermoelectric devices convert thermal energy into electricity at the atomic scale, researchers used neutrons to study single crystals of tin sulfide and tin selenide. The results revealed a strong correlation between changes in the structure at certain temperatures and the frequency of atomic vibrations (phonons). This allowed the researchers to identify temperatures ideal for energy conversion and provided basic scientific knowledge for designing new thermoelectric materials.

Journal: Nature Communications

Department of Energy announces $23.9 million for research on next-generation data management and scientific data visualization

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $23.9 million in funding for ten projects in advanced scientific data management and visualization.

Tracking jets in hot quark soup reveals a mechanism of ‘quenching’

DOE/US Department of Energy

Colliding atomic nuclei at very high energies “melts” the boundaries of individual protons and neutrons, setting quarks and gluons to form a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Quarks or gluons in the colliding ions sometimes scatter off one another and then split, forming parallel sprays of particles called jets. Tracking how jets lose energy, called “quenching,” allows scientists to learn about the QGP and the nuclear strong force. New results find that some quarks lose energy even before they split to form a jet.

Journal: Physical Review C

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