Science Highlights
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Pointer receives Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award Argonne nuclear engineer Dave Pointer is the recipient of the 2012 Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award from the American Nuclear Society (ANS). |
June 20, 2012 |
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Driving membrane curvature In biological systems, membranes are as important as water. They form the barrier between the inner world, within our cells, where we perform the chemical reactions of life, and the outside environment. |
June 14, 2012 |
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DOE lab that pioneered electric vehicles sets sights on natural gas cars, trucks Platts Inside Energy—The Energy Department national laboratory that brought cutting-edge battery technology to the Chevrolet Volt and other hybrid-electric vehicles now hopes to be the vanguard of another automotive power source that many say is poised to grab a big share of the transportation-fuel market: natural gas. |
June 5, 2012 |
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Argonne recognized by Energy Secretary Chu for greenhouse gas reductions Argonne National Laboratory is leading the way in greenhouse gas reductions, particularly with the recapture and recycling of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). SF6 is a gas used in industry as an anti-arcing agent. It is an extremely potent greenhouse gas — one pound of SF6 is equivalent to 12 tons of carbon dioxide. |
May 30, 2012 |
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New class of battery materials discovered Researchers have discovered a new class of battery electrode materials that will be essential to attaining safe and efficient lithium (Li) and sodium (Na) rechargeable energy storage systems for vehicle and large-scale electric utility use. |
May 9, 2012 |
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Shedding new light on LEDs LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, are the secret behind your iPhone screen, flatscreen TVs, Christmas lights and crosswalk signals. They can last longer and save more energy than traditional incandescent bulbs. But there is one thing they aren’t very good at: efficiently emitting light in the yellow-green spectrum. |
April 18, 2012 |
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Finding functionals for fission Understanding of the fission process is crucial for many areas of science and technology—for example, for deploying safe and efficient advanced nuclear reactors. Accurately estimating the stability of a heavy nucleus against fission in its ground state is, however, a complex mathematical problem involving hundreds of strongly interacting protons and neutrons moving in a splitting nucleus. |
April 10, 2012 |
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Unconventional topological spin structure in coupled magnetic discs Argonne's Materials Science Division researchers have fabricated an artificially-confined system of magnetic discs coupled antiferromagnetically through a spacer layer, and demonstrated for the first time that this system forms an unconventional topological spin structure. |
March 12, 2012 |
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Peering into the interfaces of nanoscale polymeric materials The development of polymer nanostructures and nano-devices for a wide variety of applications could emerge from new information about the interplay between nanoscale interfaces in polymeric materials. |
March 12, 2012 |
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New Process for Synthesizing Robust Catalysts The two main routes for the deactivation of catalysts consisting of metal nanoparticles are coking (the accumulation of carbon on the metal that blocks the catalytic sites) and sintering (the formation of larger metal particles that lowers the activity). |
March 9, 2012 |