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U.S. Department of Energy and Stellantis announce the Battery Workforce Challenge

BattChallenge is a three-year competition joining universities with vocational partners, such as community colleges, trades and apprenticeship programs, to design, build, test and integrate an advanced EV battery into a future Stellantis vehicle.

Energy Technology and Storage, Batteries and Fuel Cells, Transportation

$The in-situ X-ray diffraction setup at the APS 1-ID beam line during the research group's experiments related to 3-D printed steel.$

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Using X-rays and additive manufacturing to print tough materials

Scientists used the Advanced Photon Source to help direct the generation of 17-4 PH stainless steel, a durable metal with many industrial uses.

Manufacturing Engineering, Additive Manufacturing, X-Ray Science and Technology

Awards and Recognition

New physical science summer school offers opportunity for underrepresented college students

DOE Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists RENEW initiative funds pilot summer school to immerse college students from underrepresented groups in physical science.

Undergraduate Programs, Educational Programs, Science and Technology Partnerships and Outreach

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Discover the science inside Argonne at our May 20 Open House

Dive hands-on into science that is transforming our world, tour world-leading research facilities and meet diverse Argonne staff and scientists at this free public event.

Visiting Argonne, Public Affairs, Outreach

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Argonne is helping U.S. companies advance battery recycling technology and strengthen the nation’s battery supply chain

Argonne received $3.5 million in funding to help accelerate battery production in America, lower costs, provide a domestic source of materials and reduce the environmental impact of electric vehicle batteries.

Energy Technology and Storage, Batteries and Fuel Cells, Manufacturing Engineering

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Battery breakthrough could see storage hit 1,200 Wh/kg — four times existing capacity

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Images of a car, truck, and airplane next to a cube shape divided into layers illustrating different components in a lithium-air battery cell. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

New design for lithium-air battery could offer much longer driving range compared with the lithium-ion battery

New safer battery, tested for a thousand cycles in a test cell, can store far more energy than today’s common lithium-ion batteries.

Batteries and Fuel Cells

Using specially designed diamonds with nitrogen vacancy centers, researchers have developed a technique to measure magnetic fields at the atomic scale. In this image, a diamond with near-surface nitrogen-vacancy centers is illuminated by green laser light from a microscope objective lens.

New quantum sensing technique reveals magnetic connections

A research team supported by the Q-NEXT quantum research center demonstrates a new way to use quantum sensors to tease out relationships between microscopic magnetic fields.

quantum sensing, quantum sensor, Q-NEXT

Machine learning model speeds up assessing catalysts for decarbonization technology from months to milliseconds

Scientists create computational model for identifying low-cost catalysts that convert biomass into fuels and useful chemicals with low carbon footprint.

Chemical Engineering, Catalysis, Machine Learning

Scientist seated at desk of equipment and computer screens. (Image by Seth Hoffman/Argonne National Laboratory.)

Artificial intelligence reframes nuclear material studies

The future of nuclear energy, which can produce electricity without harmful emissions, depends on discovery of new materials. A scientist at Argonne is using computer vision to separate the best candidates from a crowded field.

Artificial Intelligence, Materials Science and Engineering, Metals

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2023 Argonne Open House

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Understanding and Improving the I/O Behavior of Scientific Computing Applications

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