Science Highlights
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 95% efficiency. |
November 1, 2011 | |
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Accelerating insights gleaned from leadership-class supercomputing simulations Argonne computer scientists have devised a software-based approach, called GLEAN, to improve I/O performance on its IBM Blue Gene/P by exploiting the machine's network topology to intelligently agg |
November 1, 2011 | |
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Creating the Heart of a Planet in the Heart of a Gem Although materials scientists have theorized for years that a form of super-dense aluminum exists under the extreme pressures found inside a planet's core, no one had ever actually seen it, until n |
November 1, 2011 | |
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New Measurement of the Size of the Proton A recent measurement at JLab of the elastic scattering of electrons on the proton provides a new, high-precision value for the charge radius of the proton. |
November 1, 2011 | |
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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 | |
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Rethinking the idealized morphology in high-performance organic photovoltaics Traditionally, organic photovoltaic (OPV) active layers are viewed as an interpenetrating network of pure polymers and fullerenes with discrete interfaces. |
December 9, 2011 |