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Yearlong MAGIC climate study launches

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Horizon Lines container ship outfitted with meteorological and atmospheric instruments installed by US Department of Energy scientists from Argonne National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory will begin taking data today for a yearlong mission aimed at improving the representation of clouds in climate models.

Funder: Department of Energy's Office of Science

Magnetic vortex reveals key to spintronic speed limit

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Spintronics use electron spin to write and read information. To mobilize this emerging technology, scientists must understand exactly how to manipulate spin as a carrier of computer code. Now, scientists at Brookhaven Lab have precisely measured a key parameter of electron interactions called non-adiabatic spin torque that is essential to the development of spintronic devices. This unprecedented precision guides the reading and writing of digital information and sets the spintronic speed limit.

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

Closing in on the border between primordial plasma and ordinary matter

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists taking advantage of the versatility and new capabilities of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, an atom smasher at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, have observed first glimpses of a possible boundary separating ordinary nuclear matter, composed of protons and neutrons, from the seething soup of their constituent quarks and gluons that permeated the early universe.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: Quark Matter 2012

Hot nuclear matter

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Large Hadron Collider in Europe will present their latest findings on the hot nuclear matter that permeated the early universe at Quark Matter 2012, Aug. 12-18 in Washington, D.C.

Journal: Science
Meeting: Quark Matter 2012

Unprecedented subatomic details of exotic ferroelectric nanomaterials

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and other collaborating institutions describe a technique revealing unprecedented details about the atomic structure and behavior of exotic ferroelectric materials, which are uniquely equipped to store digital information. This research could usher in a new generation of advanced electronics.

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

Carbon is key for getting algae to pump out more oil

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Overturning two long-held misconceptions about oil production in algae, scientists show that ramping up the microbes' overall metabolism by feeding them more carbon increases oil production as the organisms continue to grow. The findings may point to new ways to turn photosynthetic green algae into tiny "green factories" for producing raw materials for alternative fuels.

Journal: Plant and Cell Physiology
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, US Department of Energy/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Scientists identify mechanism for regulating plant oil production

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified key elements in the biochemical mechanism plants use to limit the production of fatty acids. The results suggest ways scientists might target those biochemical pathways to increase the production of plant oils as a renewable resource for biofuels and industrial processes.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Bayer CropScience

Low-cost nanosheet catalyst discovered to split hydrogen from water

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Brookhaven National Lab have developed a new electrocatalyst that overcomes the high cost of platinum, generating hydrogen gas from water with abundant and affordable metals. The unexpected and high-performing nanosheet structure of the catalytic nickel-molybdenum-nitride compound offers a promising new model for effective hydrogen catalysis.

Journal: Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Brookhaven National Lab/Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program

New technique uses electrons to map nanoparticle atomic structures

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Brookhaven/Columbia Engineering School team of scientists shows how a form of nanocrystallography can be carried out using a transmission electron microscope -- an instrument found in many chemistry and materials science laboratories.

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

Atomic-scale visualization of electron pairing in iron superconductors

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By measuring how strongly electrons are bound together to form Cooper pairs in an iron-based superconductor, scientists provide direct evidence supporting theories in which magnetism holds the key to this material's ability to carry current with no resistance.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Royal Society, National Science Foundation, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Academia Sinica

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