Science Highlights
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Superconducting cavity for ATLAS upgrade achieves world-record accelerating field The prototype superconducting (SC) cavity for the ARRA-funded efficiency and intensity upgrade of the ATLAS facility has undergone first testing. |
May 1, 2011 | |
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Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolyte Material Scale-Up Scientists at Argonne have recently developed an improved, scalable process for the synthesis of the lithium-ion battery solvent (ANL-1NM3) and have successfully generated 3,3 |
June 1, 2011 | |
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Elevated CO2 and O3 alter soil organic matter cycling in northern deciduous forest Scientists from Argonne and two Midwest universities used DOE's Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiment to show that elevated CO2 levels increase the cycling of carbon and n |
June 1, 2011 |
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Argonne studies used to develop new SAE testing procedures for hybrid vehicles Plug-In Hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) are undergoing intense development and will be mass-produced within the next year. |
June 1, 2011 | |
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Argonne's MG-RAST metagenome analysis server passes 1-terabase milestone MG-RAST, the metagenome analysis server developed and operated by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, has reached a new milestone: 1 terabase (1,012 basepairs) |
July 1, 2011 | |
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Brain Iron as an Early Predictor of Alzheimer's Disease New scientific information relevant to Alzheimer's disease, obtained by researchers utilizing the U. S. |
August 1, 2011 | |
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Extending Resonant Diffraction to Very High Energies for Structural Studies of Complex Materials Researchers utilizing the U.S. |
August 1, 2011 | |
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Metallic Glass: A Crystal at Heart Researchers squeezed samples of a metallic glass between the tips of two diamonds in a diamond anvil cell at X-ray beamline 16-ID-B of the High Pressure Collaborative Access T |
August 1, 2011 | |
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Coherent Diffractive Imaging in Living Color Exactly 150 years after the first color photograph was produced, scientists have devised a way of employing the full spectrum of colors from synchrotron and free-electron laser x radiation to image |
August 1, 2011 | |
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An Understanding of Elastin's Properties Springs Forth Physiological flexibility comes from the protein elastin, deriving properties from the building-block molecule tropoelastin, which behaves as an ideal elastomer because it loses no energy between s |
September 1, 2011 |