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Argonne scientists (from left) Stefan Vajda, Larry Curtiss and Jeff Greeley have developed a new way of creating propylene that eliminates the many environmentally unfriendly by-products.
 Scientists develop green method to produce propylene oxide

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new class of silver-based catalysts for the production of the industrially useful chemical propylene oxide that is both environmentally friendly and less expensive.

 April 8, 2010
Charlie Catlett spoke on privacy at the TEDxNaperville event last month.
Talk of the town: Two Argonne scientists speak at TEDxNaperville

The TEDxNaperville conference, which was held last month at North Central College, hosted over 200 attendees and featured two researchers from Argonne National Laboratory among its eight speakers.

 April 1, 2010
J. Murray Gibson stands in front of Argonne's synchrotron, the Advanced Photon Source.
 Argonne's J. Murray Gibson to lead AAAS Physics Section

Argonne National Laboratory ‘s Associate Laboratory Director J. Murray Gibson has been elected chair of the Physics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

 March 26, 2010
Maine South High School student Peter Kumon demonstrates the team's winning machine, which used hydraulics, Alka-Seltzer, ball bearings and a toy train to deliver a squirt of hand sanitizer into a waiting hand.
 Maine South High School wins 15th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

A team from Maine South won Argonne National Laboratory’s 15th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, held Friday at the Chicago Children’s Museum on Navy Pier.

 March 15, 2010
Last year's winning team, from Wilmington High School in Wilmington, Ill., designed a machine to replace an incandescent light bulb with a more efficient fluorescent bulb.
 Students fight germs at the 15th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

It may get a little messy at the 15th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Friday, March 12, but at least it will be sanitary. Students are tasked with building complex machines that dispense an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer in 20 or more steps.

 March 10, 2010
Optimization server reaches two million milestone

NEOS, the Network-Enabled Optimization System developed by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory in conjunction with Northwestern University, has reached a new milestone: two million submissions to its optimization software.

 February 22, 2010
Dennis Mills, recently elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, has made education a priority as well as scientific progress, founding the National Neutron and X-ray School for graduate students.
 Argonne scientist named American Physical Society Fellow

Dennis Mills of Argonne National Laboratory has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. The honor recognizes his development of synchrotron X-ray optics and related techniques, the build-out of beamlines at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne and the development of X-ray monochromators, phase plates, and timing techniques.

 February 10, 2010
Coolant-flow pressure distribution in a 217-pin wire-wrapped subassembly, computed on the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility's Blue Gene/P supercomputer. Image by members of the Argonne SHARP project, Paul Fischer, Aleks Obabko, Andrew Siegel, Dave Pointer and Jeff Smith.
 Argonne scientists awarded supercomputing time to accelerate discoveries

Five researchers at Argonne National Laboratory will lead projects that have been awarded a total of 80 million hours of computing time on Argonne’s energy-efficient Blue Gene/P. Using the computer allotments, the researchers will conduct advanced simulation and analysis and will develop scalable system software needed to fully utilize the power of leadership-class computing facilities.

 January 26, 2010
Antonino Miceli, an Argonne physicist, has been awarded one of the Department of Energy's Early Career Research Grants.
 Argonne scientist awarded $2.5 million for Early Career Research Program

Physicist Antonino Miceli of Argonne National Laboratory has been awarded $2.5 million over the next five years as part of DOE's Early Career Research Program.

 January 22, 2010
Argonne scientist Karena Chapman holds up a wafer of metal organic framework ZIF-8 with its structure displayed on the computer screen. Chapman along with scientists Peter Chupas and Gregory Halder were able to change the structure of a metal organic framework at pressures low enough for large scale industrial applications.
 Argonne scientists squeeze more out of metal-organic framework

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a new route to transform the structure of porous materials at industrially accessible high pressures.

 January 19, 2010
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