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Strange electrons break the crystal symmetry of high-temperature superconductors

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have found surprising electron behavior that may help unravel the ever-elusive mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity -- a phenomenon in which electrical current flows freely without resistance through a material at unusually high temperatures relative to those of conventional superconductors.

Journal: Nature
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Studying argon gas trapped in two-dimensional array of tiny 'cages'

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the first time, scientists have trapped a noble gas in a two-dimensional porous structure at room temperature. This achievement will enable detailed studies of individual gas atoms in confinement -- research that could inform the design of new materials for gas separation and nuclear waste remediation.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina

Electron orbitals may hold key to unifying concept of high-temperature superconductivity

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of scientists has found evidence for a new type of electron pairing that may broaden the search for new high-temperature superconductors. The findings provide the basis for a unifying description of how radically different copper- and iron-based 'parent' materials can develop the ability to carry electrical current with no resistance at strikingly high temperatures.

Journal: Science
Funder: Lundbeckfond Fellowship, DOE/US Department of Energy, Moore Foundation's EPiQS Initiative

New efficient, low-temperature catalyst for hydrogen production

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have developed a new low-temperature catalyst for producing high-purity hydrogen gas while simultaneously using up carbon monoxide (CO). The discovery could improve the performance of fuel cells that run on hydrogen fuel but can be poisoned by CO.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation, Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities of China, National Defense Basic Scientific Research Program of China

With ARM instruments watching, an extensive summer melt in west Antarctica

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

One day in December of 2015, bound for a remote ice camp in the interior of Antarctica, Scripps Institution of Oceanography doctoral student Ryan Scott boarded a ski-equipped LC-130 turboprop transport plane at McMurdo Station at the south tip of Ross Island. It was austral summer and the temperature outside hovered around -4 degrees Celsius.

X-ray study reveals way to control molecular vibrations that transmit heat

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new way to track dynamic molecular features in soft materials, including the high-frequency molecular vibrations that transmit waves of heat, sound, and other forms of energy.

Journal: Nano Letters

Scientists design molecular system for artificial photosynthesis

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A molecular system for artificial photosynthesis is designed to mimic key functions of the photosynthetic center in green plants -- light absorption, charge separation, and catalysis -- to convert solar energy into chemical energy stored by hydrogen fuel.

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

Heavy particles get caught up in the flow

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By teasing out signatures of particles that decay just tenths of a millimeter from the center of a trillion-degree fireball that mimics the early universe, nuclear physicists smashing atoms at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are revealing new details about the fundamental particles that make up our world.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

A 'wearable' brain scanner inspired by Brookhaven technology

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Building on a Brookhaven Lab innovation designed for brain imaging in moving rats, a team in Virginia and West Virginia designs a device for studies of human interaction, dementia, movement disorders, and more.

Scientists develop real-time technique for studying ionic liquids at electrode interfaces

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This electron microscope-based imaging technique could help scientists optimize the performance of ionic liquids for batteries and other energy storage devices.

Journal: Advanced Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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