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9-Jun-2020
Harnessing light for nanotechnologies
DOE/US Department of Energy
Scientists found a new way to build silicon nanodisks that allow the scientists to guide light along the outside of these tiny structures in a way they have never been able to before. Unlike in previous structures, scientists were able to send light in a zig-zag pattern rather than a straight line. Improving the ability to move the light in multiple dimensions will make it easier to integrate these nanostructures into technologies in the future.
9-Jun-2020
Breathing new life into an old question: what plants' emissions tell us about their cell walls
DOE/US Department of Energy
Plants emit gases like methanol and acetic acid that are not directly related to photosynthesis but that have an unknown origin. Researchers have found a possible source: natural chemical modification in the cellulose in plant cell walls and accompanying metabolic changes.
29-May-2020
Improved proton beam delivery boosts production of high-demand and new medical isotopes
DOE/US Department of Energy
A recent project increased output at the Isotope Production Facility. The project included a new particle-beam delivery system, diagnostic instruments, an adjustable targeting 'iris,' and a focusing system. The project increased isotope production by 30 percent and makes possible future increases of up to 60 percent.
29-May-2020
Keeping cool with an innovative bunched beam accelerator
DOE/US Department of Energy
Physicists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have demonstrated a new technique that uses bunches of electrons to cool the beams of gold ions in RHIC. The new 'bunched-beam' electron cooling system keeps RHIC's ion beams tightly packed together, especially at low energy levels, increasing the chances that the ions will collide.
27-May-2020
Jean Paul Allain: Then and now
DOE/US Department of Energy
Jean Paul Allain is a professor and department head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering, the director of the Radiation Surface Science and Engineering Laboratory, professor in Biomedical Engineering by courtesy and the Lloyd & Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in Plasma Medicine at Penn State University.
27-May-2020
Esther Takeuchi on batteries
DOE/US Department of Energy
In the First-Person Science series, scientists describe how they made significant discoveries over years of research. Esther Takeuchi is a professor at Stony Brook University and the director of the Center for Mesoscale Transport Properties, a Department of Energy Office of Science Energy Frontier Research Center.
15-May-2020
Jonathan Schilling: Then and Now
DOE/US Department of Energy
Jonathan Schilling is a professor in the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology at the University of Minnesota. He is also the director of the Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories in northern Minnesota.
12-May-2020
Delia Milliron: Then and now
DOE/US Department of Energy
Delia J. Milliron is the T. Brockett Hudson Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, formerly a staff scientist in the Molecular Foundry, Division of Materials Science at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
12-May-2020
Christoph Benning on plant biochemistry
DOE/US Department of Energy
In the First-Person Science series, scientists describe how they made significant discoveries over years of research. Christoph Benning is the director of the Michigan State University-Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory.