Feature Stories
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Argonne "homegrown" hybrid solar cell aims for low-cost power Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have refined a technique to manufacture solar cells by creating tubes of semiconducting material and then "growing" polymers directly inside them. |
November 10, 2009 |
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Argonne advanced battery research driving to displace gasoline Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are leveraging their broad and deep understanding of safe, high-energy and long-life Li-ion battery development to leap the high hurdles required for the development of commercially viable Li-air batteries. |
December 18, 2009 |
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Argonne scientists discover novel materials approach to fighting cancer Brain cancer is notoriously difficult to treat with standard cancer-fighting methods, so scientists have been looking outside standard medicine and into nanomaterials as a treatment alternative. |
February 8, 2010 | |
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Molecular "stencils" open up new possibilities for solar energy Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have begun to use molecular “stencils” to pave the way to new materials that could potentially find their way into future generations of solar cells, catalysts and photonic crystals. |
November 15, 2010 |
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Molecular beam epitaxy facility to design custom materials for scientists The molecular beam epitaxy facility, located at Argonne National Laboratory, could provide the basis for new materials to improve fuel cells, electronics and batteries. |
December 7, 2010 |
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Matthew Tirrell named founding director of UChicago Institute for Molecular Engineering Matthew Tirrell, a pioneering researcher in the fields of biomolecular engineering and nanotechnology, has been appointed founding Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago’s new Institute for Molecular Engineering, effective July 1. |
March 7, 2011 |
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Argonne Researcher named top five materials scientist of 2000s Argonne scientist Yugang Sun has been recognized as the one of the five top materials scientists in the world over the past decade, according to a new ranking recently released by Thomson Reuters. |
April 1, 2011 |
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New inorganic semiconductor layers hold promise for solar energy A team of researchers from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory has demonstrated a method that could produce cheaper semiconductor layers for solar cells. |
June 1, 2011 |
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Argonne-pioneered X-ray lens to aid nanomaterials research A team of researchers at Argonne National Laboratory has developed the new "multilayer Laue lens". This lens focuses high-energy X-rays so tightly they can detect objects as small as 15 nanometers in size and is in principle capable of focusing to well below 10 nanometers. |
August 15, 2011 |
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New solar cell technology gives light waves “amnesia” For years, scientists have dealt with the problem of trying to increase the efficiency and drive down the cost of solar cells. Now researchers have hit upon a new idea—trying to give the light collected by solar cells a bit of "amnesia." |
September 26, 2011 |