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Tantalizing signs of phase-change 'turbulence' in RHIC collisions

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new analysis of collisions conducted at different energies at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) shows tantalizing signs of a critical point--a change in the way that quarks and gluons, the building blocks of protons and neutrons, transform from one phase to another. The findings will help physicists map out details of these nuclear phase changes to better understand the evolution of the universe and the conditions in the cores of neutron stars.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

Chemistry goes under cover

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have discovered that physically confined spaces can make for more efficient chemical reactions.

Journal: Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Funder: Integrated Mesoscale Architectures for Sustainable Catalysis, DOE/US Department of Energy

'Forward' jet-tracking components installed at RHIC's STAR detector

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Just prior to the start of this year's run at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a team of scientists, engineers, technicians, and students completed the installation of important new components of the collider's STAR detector. The new components will expand STAR's ability to track jets of particles emerging in an extreme 'forward' direction to give scientists insight into how the internal components of protons and neutrons--quarks and gluons--contribute to the overall properties of these building blocks of matter.

Tuning electrode surfaces to optimize solar fuel production

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists discovered that changing the topmost layer of atoms on electrode surfaces can impact the activity of splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen--a clean fuel.

Journal: Nature Energy

Study reveals platinum's role in clean fuel conversion

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University (SBU), and other collaborating institutions have uncovered dynamic, atomic-level details of how an important platinum-based catalyst works in the water gas shift reaction. The experiments provide definitive evidence that only certain platinum atoms play an important role in the chemical conversion, and could therefore guide the design of catalysts that use less of this precious metal.

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

Great Neck South wins 2021 Regional High School Science Bowl

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Great Neck South High School earned the top spot in the Long Island Regional High School Science Bowl hosted by the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021.

Scientists discover plants' roadblock to specialty oil production

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Attempts to put genes for making specialty fatty acids into crops have led to plants that make less oil. Now scientists have identified the mechanism behind the oil-production slowdown. The work paves the way for making at least one industrially important specialty fatty acid in plants--and may work for many others.

Journal: PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

Brookhaven Physicist Robert Palmer retires after 60 years

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Physicist Robert Palmer has retired after 60 years of running experiments, making discoveries, and pushing particle and accelerator physics forward at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and beyond.

Brookhaven Lab Interns Study Airborne COVID-19 Spread

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

When Cathrine Hamilton and Alison Robey, fall interns at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, first signed on to collaborate with their mentor Laura Fierce, an associate scientist in the Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, they didn't imagine they would be contributing to widespread research tackling the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chemists settle battery debate, propel research forward

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers led by chemists at Brookhaven National Laboratory has identified new details of the reaction mechanism that takes place in batteries with lithium metal anodes. The findings are a major step towards developing smaller, lighter, and less expensive batteries for electric vehicles.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology
Funder: DOE?Office of Science, Vehicle Technologies Office, DOE/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

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