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U.S. Department of Energy announces $54 million to increase energy efficiency in microelectronics technologies

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced nearly $54 million for 10 new projects led by DOE’s National Laboratories to increase energy efficiency in microelectronics design and production.

Department of Energy invests $2.8 million for novel research in high-performance algorithms

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $2.8 million for six research projects to develop faster and more efficient ways to apply high-performance computing for scientific discoveries.

Studying the mechanism of metal extraction with ionic liquids

DOE/US Department of Energy

The “superheavy” elements are found only in labs. The small amounts of material available means chemists must use special techniques to study them. This research developed a new way to study the chemistry of metallic elements with extremely low concentrations of material. This may lead to better methods of recovering iridium, an element that is critical to national security and the economy.

Journal: New Journal of Chemistry

Patterning silicon at the one nanometer scale

DOE/US Department of Energy

Scientists have developed a technique called plasmon engineering to create nanomaterials with near-atomic scale control of patterning in silicon. This new research used a specific plasmon engineering method, aberration-corrected electron beam lithography, to control the optical and electronic properties of silicon. This approach could one day be applied to industrial applications.

Quantum materials cloak thermal radiation

DOE/US Department of Energy

Scientists demonstrated that ultrathin films of samarium nickel oxide can mask the thermal radiation emitted by hot materials. This is due to the material undergoing a gradual transition from insulator to conductor. This study shows that quantum materials such as samarium nickel oxide can manage thermal radiation with potential applications in infrared camouflage, privacy shielding, and heat transfer control.

DOE announces $37 million to small businesses for climate, energy and scientific R&D

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

In support of the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to build the American economy back better, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a plan to provide $37 million for small businesses pursuing climate and energy research and development (R&D) projects as well the development of advanced scientific instrumentation through a funding opportunity announcement (FOA).

James Kneller: Then and Now / 2011 Early Career Award Winner

DOE/US Department of Energy

At North Carolina State University, associate professor James Kneller studies neutrinos emitted from exploding stars.

Lighting the way for nanotube innovation

DOE/US Department of Energy

Scientists have learned how to place crystalline defects in new materials with atomic-scale precision. This enables materials that can control excitons—energy carriers similar to subatomic particles. New research reveals how to create local energy wells that “capture” the excitons. This small but important step could lead to smaller, more efficient components for optical telecommunications.

Journal: Chemistry of Materials

Department of Energy announces $15.1 million for integrated computational and data infrastructure for science research

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $15.1 million for three collaborative research projects, at five universities, to advance the development of a flexible multi-tiered data and computational infrastructure to support a diverse collection of on-demand scientific data processing tasks and computationally intensive simulations.

Quantum computing enables unprecedented materials science simulations

DOE/US Department of Energy

Researchers have for the first time used a quantum computer to generate accurate results from materials science simulations that can be verified with practical techniques. Eventually, such simulations on quantum computers could be more accurate and complex than simulations on classical digital computers.

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