Scientists decipher structure of nature's 'light switch'
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20-May-2010
Brookhaven Lab chemists receive patents for fuel-cell catalysts
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryBusiness Announcement
Chemists at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have received three patents for developing catalysts to accelerate chemical reactions in fuel cells. The newly patented catalysts, as well as a method for making a particular type of catalyst with a thin layer of platinum, could greatly reduce the cost and increase the use of fuel cells in electric vehicles. The catalysts and the technique are available for licensing.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
18-May-2010
J.C. Seamus Davis elected to the National Academy of Sciences
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryGrant and Award Announcement
J.C. Seamus Davis, a senior physicist at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Director of DOE's Center for Emergent Superconductivity at Brookhaven Lab, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He is among 72 new members and 18 foreign associates recognized this year for "their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research."
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- DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Engingeering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Office of Naval Research, Cornell University
13-May-2010
Scientists ID bacterial genes that improve plant growth
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
To find out what makes microbe-plant interactions "tick," scientists at Brookhaven Lab decoded the genome of a plant-dwelling microbe they'd shown could increase plant growth by 40 percent. The work could move the approach of using bacteria as growth-promoting agents one step closer to implementation for improved agriculture and biofuel production.
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- PLOS Genetics
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- US Department of Energy's Office of Science
11-May-2010
New details of tuberculosis protein-cleaving machinery revealed
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Scientists looking for new ways to fight tuberculosis (TB) have their sights set on a structure essential to the bacterium's survival. Disabling this structure could kill the microbes in the infected host and thwart TB infections. In a study appearing in EMBO J, scientists describe new features of how this structure, known as a proteasome, is put together and how it works. These details could assist researchers working to develop anti-TB drugs.
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- The EMBO Journal
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- DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory, National Institutes of Health
4-Mar-2010
Exotic antimatter detected at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Scientists studying high-energy collisions of gold ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory have found the most massive antinucleus discovered to date. The new antinucleus is a negatively charged state of antimatter and the first antinucleus containing an anti-strange quark, thus opening a new frontier in physics.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
25-Feb-2010
Scientists glimpse nanobubbles on super nonstick surfaces
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Scientists at Brookhaven Lab have obtained the first glimpse of minuscule air bubbles that keep water from wetting a super nonstick surface. The research could lead to a new class of nonstick materials for a range of applications, including improved-efficiency power plants, speedier boats and surfaces that are resistant to contamination by germs.
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- Nano Letters
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
15-Feb-2010
'Perfect' liquid hot enough to be quark soup
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Recent analyses from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory establish that collisions of gold ions traveling at nearly the speed of light have created matter at a temperature of about 4 trillion degrees Celsius -- higher than the temperature needed to melt protons and neutrons into a plasma of quarks and gluons. Details of the findings will be published in Physical Review Letters.
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
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- US Department of Energy's Office of Science, others
- Meeting
- 2010 APS/AAPT Joint Meeting
15-Feb-2010
'Bubbles' of broken symmetry in quark soup at RHIC
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory report the first hints of profound symmetry transformations in the hot soup of quarks, antiquarks and gluons produced in RHIC's most energetic collisions. These new results thus suggest that RHIC may have a unique opportunity to test in the laboratory some crucial features of symmetry-altering bubbles speculated to have played important roles in the evolution of the infant universe.
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
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- US Department of Energy's Office of Science, others
- Meeting
- 2010 APS/AAPT Joint Meeting
10-Dec-2009
Absorbing hydrogen fluoride gas to enhance crystal growth
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Two scientists at the Brookhaven Lab have developed a method to control the buildup of hydrogen fluoride gas during the growth of precision crystals needed for applications such as superconductors, optical devices, and microelectronics. The invention could lead to more efficient production and improved performance of these materials.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy