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	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids for Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Applications The current levelized cost of energy (LCOE) from concentrated solar power (CSP) is ~ $0.11/kWh. The U.S.	November 1, 2011
	Improving HPC I/O performance on leadership class supercomputers On the leadership computers at Argonne National Laboratory, these approaches yield up to 53% improvement in performance over the existing I/O forwarding mechanism and close to	November 1, 2011
	Researchers determine three dimensional structure of galactose metabolic pathway protein In most organisms, efficient D-galactose utilization is accomplished via a well-studied pathway known as the Leloir pathway.	October 3, 2011
$Fig.1. C. moniliferum cell morphology and crystals. (A) Confocal microscopy image showing the prominent lobes of the two chloroplasts (red); cell membrane in green. (B) DIC image of BaSO4 crystals (arrow) in the terminal vacuole; arrowhead indicates a pyrenoid. (C) SEM image of rhombic (arrow) and hexagonal (arrowhead) BaSO4 crystals that remain after cells have been ashed to remove organic material. (D) Illustration showing approximate locations of freeze-fracture cross-sections analyzed by cryo-SEM$	How Algae Use a "Sulfate Trap" to Selectively Biomineralize Strontium Over the years, researchers have looked to a small number of organisms, including the desmid green alga Closterium moniliferum, because of their ability to selectively sequester strontium,	October 1, 2011
	Thinnest Nanofiltration Membrane to Date is Produced A separation membrane is a key component in both nanofiltration and reverse osmosis filtration systems.	October 1, 2011
	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
	New TRIXS for measuring low energy surface and interfacial electronic structure at in situ conditions While high energy X-ray methods have been widely used to study the structure and spectroscopy of surfaces and interfaces in extreme environments, light element and valence excitations need lower en	September 1, 2011
	Extending Resonant Diffraction to Very High Energies for Structural Studies of Complex Materials Researchers utilizing the U.S.	August 1, 2011
	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
	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