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Argonne researchers win two R&D 100 Awards

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and their industrial partners have won two R&D 100 Awards for innovative fluid sealing and lithium-ion battery technologies.

 July 17, 2008
Integrated Fuel Technologies gets worldwide license for Argonne-developed Diesel DeNOx Catalyst

A new, patented catalyst developed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to reliably and economically reduce 95 to 100 percent of the nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from diesel-fueled engines has been licensed to Integrated Fuel Technologies, Inc. (IFT), a start-up company based in Kirkland, Wash.

 July 1, 2008
Argonne biologist Daniel Schabacker prepares to load a biochip onto a scanner developed by one of Argonne's licensees, Aurora Photonics.
 Biochips can detect cancers before symptoms develop

In their fight against cancer, doctors have just gained an impressive new weapon to add to their arsenal. Researchers at Argonne have developed a chip that can save lives by diagnosing certain cancers even before patients become symptomatic.

 May 9, 2008
Newest GREET model updates environmental impacts of latest transportation fuels, vehicle technologies

The newest version of the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy use in Transportation (GREET) model from Argonne will provide researchers with even more tools to evaluate and compare the environmental impacts of new transportation fuels and advanced vehicle technologies.

 May 8, 2008
Argonne materials scientist Arun Wagh displays three plates made of Ceramicrete, the same composite that is now used as the basis for casks that can safely store nuclear material.
Innovative cement helps DOE safeguard nuclear facilities

When Argonne materials scientists Arun Wagh and Dileep Singh initially developed Ceramicrete®, a novel phosphate cement that stabilizes radioactive waste streams, they did not immediately recognize that with one or two extra ingredients, the cement could solve another problem in the nuclear complex.

 April 25, 2008
Argonne's lithium-ion battery technology to be commercialized by Japan's Toda Kogyo

Argonne National Laboratory and Toda Kogyo Corp. of Japan have reached a world-wide licensing agreement for the commercial production and sales of Argonne's patented composite cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

 March 13, 2008
Argonne breakthrough may revolutionize ethylene production

A new environmentally friendly technology created by scientists at Argonne may revolutionize the production of the world's most commonly produced organic compound: ethylene.

 February 5, 2008
Argonne materials scientist Ulrich Welp prepares to test a sample. Photo by George Joch.
 New T-ray source could improve airport security, cancer detection

Scientists at Argonne, along with collaborators in Turkey and Japan, have created a compact device that could lead to portable, battery-operated sources of T-rays, or terahertz radiation.

 November 23, 2007
R&D-100 WINNER – Argonne's Access Grid creates a collaborative environment in which users at manylocations can see and hear each other as if they were all in the same room.
 Access Grid connects collaborators, earns R&D 100 Award

After a vision nearly 10 years ago to build a system to enable group-to-group collaboration using scalable computing and networking technology, researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne Nat

 August 17, 2007
Argonne researcher Ali Erdemir performs a friction test on a metal disc coated with a solution of motor oil with nano-boric acid particles.
 Nano-boric acid makes motor oil more slippery

One key to saving the environment, improving our economy and reducing our dependence on foreign oil might just be sitting in your mother's medicine cabinet.

 August 3, 2007