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Oklahoma State University FaST team: Pictured left to right, Anna Eckhoff, Ashlee Dowdy, Kristin Schieffer and Dr. Paulette Hebert are working on Argonne's sustainability program by conducting a lighting survey to find opportunities for energy and cost savings
 Future scientists and engineers on the FaST track at Argonne

A team from Oklahoma State University spent their summer working at Argonne National Laboratory, performing a lighting survey as part of Argonne's sustainability program, which aims to reduce the laboratory's energy consumption by 30 percent by 2015.

 August 2, 2011
A team of researchers at Argonne has developed the new "multilayer Laue lens," that will let scientists study the nanoscale in greater detail than ever before. From left to right: Bing Shi, Lahsen Assoufid, Brian Stephenson, Jörg Maser, Chian Liu, Lisa Gades. Not pictured: Al Macrander.
 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
Brain vasculature, coupled continuum-atomistic simulation: Platelets aggregation on the wall of aneurysm where yellow particles are active platelets, red particles are inactive platelets. Streamlines depict instantaneous velocity field. (i) Onset of clot formation; (ii) Clot formation progresses in time and space, detachment of small platelet clusters due to shear-flow is observed.
 Showcasing award-winning scientific visualizations

Computer visualizations of arterial blood flow and the dynamics of early galaxy formation, both created by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, have won OASCRs at this year's Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing program conference in Denver.

 August 26, 2011
The goal of this collaboration is to develop a Systems Biology Knowledgebage (KBase), designed to accelerate our understanding of microbes, microbial communities, and plants.
 New knowledgebase will enable energy and environmental innovations

Last month, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a multi-institutional effort composed of leading scientists from several institutions, including Argonne National Laboratory. The goal of this collaboration is to develop a Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), designed to accelerate our understanding of microbes, microbial communities and plants.

 August 30, 2011
Members of the team that helped the City of Chicago plan its response to pandemics and emergencies. (From left to right) Front row: Tom Baldwin, Dan Walsh and Ken Lerner. Back row: Ed Tanzman, Chris Kramer and Matt Berry. Not pictured: Kitty Lowey, Don Hanscom, Paul Hewett, Brett Hansard, Rebecca Feaster, Craig Sonnenfeld and Brian Dahlberg.
 City of Chicago won't sweat the flu with Argonne's help

Emergency preparedness experts at Argonne National Laboratory have helped the Chicago department plan its response to potential catastrophe, including swine and bird flu epidemics, plague outbreaks and anthrax bioterrorism.

 September 7, 2011
Argonne researcher Sabine Gallagher loads a sample mount of battery cathode materials for X-ray diffraction.
New materials engineering labs see early success

After only a few months of work, a small group of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has successfully scaled up the production of a new molecule that protects advanced lithium-ion batteries from thermal overcharge.

 September 13, 2011
The structure of NDM-1 shows the protein's enlarged active site, which lets it latch onto and disable a broad range of antibiotics.
 Decoding the proteins behind drug-resistant superbugs

Penicillin and its descendants once ruled supreme over bacteria. Then the bugs got stronger, and hospitals have reported bacterial infections so virulent that even powerful antibiotics held in reserve for these cases don't work.

 September 15, 2011
“There’s a delicate balance you have to strike,” said Argonne physicist Byeongdu Lee, who led the characterization of the supraparticles using high-energy X-rays provided by Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source. “If the attractive Van der Waals force is too strong, all the nanoparticles will smash together at once, and you’ll end up with an ugly, disordered glass. But if the repulsive Coulomb force is too strong, they’ll never come together in the first place.”
 A new way to go from nanoparticles to supraparticles

Controlling the behavior of nanoparticles can be just as difficult trying to wrangle a group of teenagers. However, a new study involving Argonne National Laboratory has given scientists insight into how tweaking a nanoparticle’s attractive electronic qualities can lead to the creation of ordered uniform “supraparticles.”

 September 19, 2011
Argonne National Laboratory, working with Advanced Magnet Lab in Florida, has received an award to develop superconducting drive generators for windmills.
 Powering wind energy with superconductivity

Advanced Magnet Lab, located in Palm Bay, Florida, is leading a project to develop the first fully superconducting direct-drive generator for large wind turbines with the goal of significantly reducing the cost of wind energy.

 September 19, 2011
Argonne physicist Zheng-Tian Lu (in back) and his team (from left to right: Arjun Sharma, Wei Jiang, Kevin Bailey, and Guomin Yang) stand with the ATTA device, which measures individual atoms of the isotope Krypton-81 as part of an effort to model underground aquifers and predict how fast they refill.
 Krypton-81 isotope can help map underground waterways

Cataloguing underground waterways, some of which extend for thousands of miles, has always been difficult—but scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are mapping them with some unusual equipment: lasers and a rare isotope.

 September 20, 2011
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