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Elusive quantum transformations found near absolute zero

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists mapped quantum phase transitions at temperatures colder than interstellar space. The ultra-cold conditions isolated the fluctuations that define the electronic, magnetic, and thermodynamic performance of metallic materials. The research provides new methods to identify and understand materials with powerful and unexpected properties, including superconductivity.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

First indirect evidence of so-far undetected strange baryons

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New supercomputing calculations provide the first evidence that particles predicted by the theory of quark-gluon interactions but never before observed are being produced in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: German Research Foundation, Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing program of the DOE Office of Science (Nuclear Physics and Advanced Scientific Computing Research), Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany

Promising ferroelectric materials suffer from unexpected electric polarizations

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Brookhaven Lab scientists find surprising locked charge polarizations that explain the poor performance of next-gen materials that would otherwise revolutionize data-driven devices.

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

Nanoscale details of electrochemical reactions in electric vehicle battery materials

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using a new method to track the electrochemical reactions in a common electric vehicle battery material under operating conditions, scientists have revealed new insight into why fast charging inhibits this material's performance. The results could inform battery makers' efforts to optimize materials for faster-charging batteries with higher capacity.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Nanostructured metal-oxide catalyst efficiently converts CO2 to methanol

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have discovered a new catalytic system for converting carbon dioxide (CO2) to methanol -- a key commodity used to create a wide range of industrial chemicals and fuels. With significantly higher activity than other catalysts now in use, the new system could make it easier to get normally unreactive CO2 to participate in these reactions.

Journal: Science
Funder: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain, DOE/US Department of Energy, Instituto de Tecnologia Venezolana para el Petroleo, European Regional Development Fund

Supercomputers reveal strange, stress-induced transformations in world's thinnest materials

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Using Brookhaven Lab supercomputers, Columbia University researchers discovered exotic transformations in graphene and other monolayer materials under strain.

Physicists detect process even rarer than the long-sought Higgs particle

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists running the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful 'atom smasher,' report the first evidence of a process that can be used to test the mechanism by which the recently discovered Higgs particle imparts mass to other fundamental particles.

Funding renewed for Brookhaven's Center for Emergent Superconductivity

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The US Department of Energy has announced an extension of funding totaling $14 million over four years for the Center for Emergent Superconductivity, an Energy Frontier Research Center led by Brookhaven Lab with partners from the University of Illinois and Argonne National Laboratory.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

DNA-linked nanoparticles form switchable 'thin films' on a liquid surface

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have used DNA-linked nanoparticles to form a single-particle-thick layer on a liquid surface where the properties of the layer can be easily switched. Understanding the assembly of such nanostructured thin films provides a possible pathway to adjustable filters, surfaces with variable mechanical response, or even new ways to deliver genes for biomedical applications.

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

Scientists reveal details of calcium 'safety-valve' in cells

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The New York Consortium on Membrane Protein Structure used X-rays at Brookhaven Lab's National Synchrotron Light Source to decipher the atomic level structure of a protein that regulates the level of calcium in cells, providing clues about a key signaling agent that can trigger programmed cell death and potentially leading to new anticancer drug targets.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health

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