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Argonne engineers are making new rocket and aircraft engines easier and cheaper to design and test

Argonne National Laboratory Director Paul K. Kearns (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

Awards and Recognition

Paul K. Kearns named 2020 FLC Laboratory Director of the Year

The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) has selected Paul Kearns, Argonne National Laboratory director, as Laboratory Director of the Year.

Awards and Recognition, Leadership

Hydropower could be a clutch player in helping global energy markets integrate solar and wind energy into the power grid.

Feature Story

Utility player: How hydropower can help get more wind and solar on the grid

A white paper from the International Energy Agency details how hydropower can help ease the global addition of wind and solar to the resource mix on power grids. Argonne’s Audun Botterud offered his expertise as a co-author.

Hydrology, Hydropower

R&D 100 award winners, Guojun Hu, Rui Hu, and Ling Zou.

Press Release

Argonne leads award-winning collaboration with Kairos Power that unveils new simulation of nuclear power plants

Argonne scientists won a 2019 R&D 100 award for collaborating with Kairos Power to create software that simulates entire nuclear power plants.

Computational Science, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Physics

Argonne chemists Jeff Elam and Anil Mane

Press Release

New Argonne etching technique could advance the way semiconductor devices are made

Novel technique for advancing the way semiconductors are made

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Nanofabrication

Awards and Recognition

Argonne team receives national recognition for fueling technology that can lower hydrogen costs

Fueling technology with potential to disrupt hydrogen economy is recognized with top prize from Federal Laboratory Consortium

Energy Technology and Storage, Batteries and Fuel Cells, Energy Consumption and Efficiency

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Site Access Protocol Changed Due to Coronavirus

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In the News

Creating the Heart of a Quantum Computer: Developing Qubits

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Feature Story

Argonne’s Mira supercomputer set to retire after years of enabling groundbreaking science

High Performance Computing, Modeling and Simulation, Computational Science

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National Scientific User Facilities

Argonne’s user facilities provide researchers with open access to the most advanced tools of modern science. Each year, over 10,000 researchers from academia, industry, and government laboratories use these facilities to perform new scientific research.

Advanced Photon Source Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Research Facility - Southern Great Plains Center for Nanoscale Materials

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Argonne Impacts: State by State

Argonne’s collaborations across the United States have led to groundbreaking discoveries and development of new technologies that help meet the nation’s needs for sustainable energy, economic prosperity, and security.

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Argonne Research Facilities

Argonne’s labs and facilities provide unique capabilities to the scientific community. Through collaborative research agreements, scientists can obtain access to specialized instrumentation and expertise rarely found elsewhere.

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Collaborative Research

Argonne fosters innovation by uniting teams of researchers on challenges to overcome scientific barriers. Our collaborative centers and institutes bring together the best minds from academia, industry, and the national labs.

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Research Highlights

Our scientists conduct research that advances the frontiers of science and creates new knowledge. Here you will find some of our most recent research highlights.

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Argonne National Laboratory Deploys Cerebras CS-1, the World’s Fastest Artificial Intelligence Computer

U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory Leverages Unprecedented Performance from Cerebras CS-1 to Solve Deep Learning Computational and Science Problems

High Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence

Analytical Chemist Yifen Tsai prepares a sample for analysis on the high-resolution ICP-Mass Spectrometer.

Correcting nonlinearity and mass-bias in measurements by ICP quadrupole mass spectrometry

Argonne scientists have demonstrated a technique that can improve the relative standard deviation in the measurement of inorganic isotopes by ICP-QMS by an order of magnitude or more.

Analytical Chemistry

MOFs for Methane Manipulation

Researchers using the Advanced Photon Source have found a way to “activate” methane so that it can be converted into products like liquid fuels, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, polymers, and much more.

Analytical Chemistry, X-Ray Science and Technology

(Left) Electrons transiting the 80 mm long metamaterial structure generate high power microwaves. (Right) Photo of the beam line at the ANL Wakefield Test Accelerator

Metamaterials for next-generation accelerators

An experiment at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator demonstrates the potential of a novel metamaterial structure to yield higher accelerating gradients than current particle accelerator technology provides.

Accelerator Physics, Physics

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Working at the interface between academia, federal agencies, industry, research institutions and state and local governments, our researchers have cultivated their interdisciplinary expertise in order to best solve national challenges in key areas.

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Toward Developing Energy-Efficient Systems Based on Novel Nanocarbon Materials

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