Science Highlights
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Key parameters for high-efficiency plastic solar sells revealed Since their discovery about fifteen years ago, plastic solar cells made from semiconducting polymers and fullerene derivatives ("buckyballs") have shown promise for future commercialization due to |
August 1, 2010 | |
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Better infrastructure risk and resilience Argonne National Laboratory has provided key technical support to a U.S. |
August 1, 2010 | |
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Researchers conduct community climate model simulation Rob Jacob, a computational climate scientist in Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division, collaborated on a two-decade simulation of a prototype version of the Community Climate System M |
August 1, 2010 | |
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Mysteries of the nuclear landscape Approximately 3,000 nuclei are already known, and twice as many could, in principle, still be discovered experimentally. |
September 1, 2010 | |
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Argonne researchers show impact of soil vegetation and moisture on carbon recovery Argonne National Laboratory Biosciences Division ecologist Julie Jastrow and colleagues recently published work showing the impact of soil vegetation and moisture on terrestrial carbon recovery. |
September 1, 2010 | |
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Argonne bioremediation effort in Kansas is cleaning up contaminants Last year, a team of Argonne scientists led by Lorraine LaFreniere injected iron microparticles underneath fields polluted with carbon tetrachloride near Centralia, Kansas. |
October 1, 2010 | |
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A boring material, "stretched", could lead to an electronics revolution The oxide compound europium titanate is fairly boring on its own, but sliced nanometers thin and chemically stretched on a specially-designed template, it takes on properties that could revolutioni |
October 1, 2010 | |
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Spin signatures of photogenerated radical anions Photovoltaic (PV) cells are the most promising man-made devices for direct solar energy utilization. |
October 1, 2010 | |
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Magnetic switching under pressure Argonne and Eastern Washington University scientists, working at the Advanced Photon Source, have harnessed the power of extreme high pressure and discovered a novel approach |
December 1, 2010 | |
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Quantum-Dot-Induced Transparency in a Nanoscale Plasmonic Resonator Electrodynamic simulations show that a single semiconductor nanocrystal can induce nearly complete transparency in the optical scattering and extinction of a metal nanostructu |
December 1, 2010 |