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19-Mar-2021
U.S. Department of Energy announces $34.5 million for data science and computation tools
DOE/US Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $34.5 million to harness cutting-edge research tools for new scientific discoveries, including clean energy and climate solutions. Two new funding opportunities will support researchers using data science and computation-based methods--including artificial intelligence and machine learning--to tackle basic science challenges, advance clean energy technologies, improve energy efficiency, and predict extreme weather and climate patterns.
18-Mar-2021
U.S. DOE announces $30M for research to secure critical elements & minerals supply chain
DOE/US Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $30 million to support scientific research that will ensure American businesses can reliably tap into a domestic supply of critical elements and minerals, such as lithium, cobalt and nickel, needed to produce clean energy technologies.
16-Mar-2021
U.S. Department of Energy announces $18M to advance particle accelerator technologies
DOE/US Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $18 million in new funding to advance particle accelerator technology, a critical tool for discovery sciences and optimizing the way we treat medical patients, manufacture electronics and clean energy technologies, and defend the nation against security threats.
12-Mar-2021
Even superalloys get creeped out from stress
DOE/US Department of Energy
Researchers design superalloys by embedding particles in a metal matrix. The particles and matrix can deform differently under stress, causing components to fail. Researchers used neutrons to probe the internal stresses in two superalloys at high temperatures and loads to obtain new insights on deformation and validate mathematical models. This will lead to components with longer life and higher reliability.
11-Mar-2021
Novel synthetic membranes speed proton transport
DOE/US Department of Energy
Scientists have long sought to develop synthetic membranes with the selectivity and high-speed transport of natural membranes. New research designed a unique polymer-based material as effective as natural membrane proteins in transporting protons through membranes. The finding could have applications in batteries, water purification, biofuels, and pharmaceuticals, and in scalable synthetic materials for entirely new technologies.
11-Mar-2021
Peering into bacteria with x-ray nanovision
DOE/US Department of Energy
Biological molecules are nearly invisible to the X-rays used to make 3D CT scans. To make these scans of biomolecules, researchers must attach a tag to the molecules that glows when illuminated with X-rays. In this study, scientists used this technique and a tiny synchrotron X-ray beam to image a membrane protein on the surface of a single E. coli bacteria.
11-Mar-2021
Characteristics of the soil in biofuel crop fields affect its potential to store carbon
DOE/US Department of Energy
: Most of the carbon contained in soil is in the form of organic matter. Scientists do not fully understand how variation in plant inputs, microbial communities, and soil physical and chemical attributes influence the makeup of this organic matter. A new study found that soil in switchgrass fields had more water-soluble carbon compounds than soil in corn fields, an important finding for biofuel crop selection.
9-Mar-2021
DOE announces $30 million for quantum information science to tackle emerging 21st century challenges
DOE/US Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced plans to provide $30 million for Quantum Information Science (QIS) research that helps scientists understand how nature works on an extremely small scale--100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. QIS can help our nation solve some of the most pressing and complex challenges of the 21st century, from climate change to national security.
9-Mar-2021
Searching for signs of 'glueballs' in proton-proton smashups
DOE/US Department of Energy
In principle, the universe should contain objects composed only of gluons in a sea of quark-antiquark pairs. However, scientists' experiments have never definitively confirmed these hypothetical objects, called "glueballs." Now, scientists are using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider to search for signs of these glueballs.