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30-Oct-2017

Making glass invisible: A nanoscience-based disappearing act

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By texturing glass surfaces with nanosized features, scientists almost completely eliminated surface reflections -- an achievement that could enhance solar cell efficiency, improve consumers' experience with electronic displays, and support high-power laser applications.

Journal: Applied Physics Letters
Funder: Department of Energy

18-Oct-2017

Using supercomputers to delve ever deeper into the building blocks of matter

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Physicists and computational scientists at Brookhaven Lab will help to develop the next generation of computational tools to push the field of nuclear physics forward.

10-Oct-2017

Machine learning translates 'hidden' information to reveal chemistry in action

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have developed a new way to capture the details of chemistry choreography as it happens. The method -- which relies on computers that have learned to recognize hidden signs of the steps -- should help them improve the performance of catalysts to drive reactions toward desired products faster.

Journal: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Funder: DOE Office of Science and Brookhaven Lab's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program

3-Oct-2017

New efficient catalyst for key step in artificial photosynthesis

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Chemists have designed a new 'single-site' catalyst that speeds up the rate of a key step in artificial photosynthesis. It's the first to match the efficiency of the catalytic sites that drive this reaction in nature and could greatly improve the potential for making efficient solar-to-fuel conversion devices.

Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

25-Sep-2017

With extra sugar, leaves get fat too

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Eat too much without exercising and you'll probably put on a few pounds. As it turns out, plant leaves do something similar. A new study shows that retaining sugars in plant leaves can make them get fat too. In plants, this extra fat accumulation could be a good thing. It could help turn plants into factories for making biofuels and other useful chemicals.

Journal: PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

18-Sep-2017

New evidence for small, short-lived drops of early universe quark-gluon plasma?

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Particles emerging from even the lowest energy collisions of small deuterons with large heavy nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider a US Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory -- exhibit behavior scientists associate with the formation of a soup of quarks and gluons, the fundamental building blocks of nearly all visible matter.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: 4th International Conference on the Initial Stages in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

16-Aug-2017

Successful test of small-scale accelerator with big potential impacts for science and medicine

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

An advanced particle accelerator designed at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory could reduce the cost and increase the versatility of facilities for physics research and cancer treatment.

15-Aug-2017

Three Brookhaven lab scientists selected to receive early career research program funding

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Three scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have been selected by DOE's Office of Science to receive significant research funding through its Early Career Research Program.

2-Aug-2017

'Perfect liquid' quark-gluon plasma is the most vortical fluid

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Particle collisions recreating the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that filled the early universe reveal that droplets of this primordial soup swirl far faster than any other fluid. The new analysis from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) shows that the 'vorticity' of the QGP surpasses the whirling fluid dynamics of super-cell tornado cores and Jupiter's Great Red Spot, and even beats out the fastest spin record held by nanodroplets of superfluid helium.

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

26-Jul-2017

Long Baseline Neutrino Facility breaks ground

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

On July 21, one mile beneath Lead, South Dakota, construction began on the first international mega-science experiment ever hosted on US soil.