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Argonne and Capstone Turbine Corp. plan to refine Argonne’s system to capture and store waste heat.

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Argonne and Capstone receive funding to advance thermal energy storage technology

New system incorporates Argonne’s high-efficiency, fast-charging/discharging thermal energy system for waste heat recovery and reuse in process and manufacturing environments.

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$This shows X-ray diffraction on a single crystal of an antiferromagnetic material. This material, scientists found, exhibits an extremely large anomalous Hall effect, a sign of its topological character. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)$

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Scientists find unusual behavior in topological material

Argonne scientists have identified a new class of topological materials made by inserting transition metal atoms into the atomic lattice of a well-known two-dimensional material.

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The more we know about how wind blows, the better we can harness the potential of wind energy. After four years of research, Argonne scientists and colleagues are helping to improve wind forecasting. (Image by Shutterstock / Dee Browning.)

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Any way the wind blows

Argonne researchers recently partnered in a project to improve short-term wind forecasting in complex terrains in an effort to make wind energy a more reliable resource.

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Under this agreement, Argonne and collaborators will use the bright x-ray beams at the laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source to investigate the further potential of lead batteries. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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Battery mainstay headed for high-tech makeover

Industry–national lab collaboration seeks unrealized potential of a venerable battery technology

Energy Technology and Storage, Batteries and Fuel Cells, batteries

Michael Papka (left) help lead Argonne’s first Big Data and Visualization Camp over the summer. He taught these high schoolers the importance of extracting useful information from an increasingly vast sea of numerical data. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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The graphic nature of data

Argonne scientists inspired high schoolers to think big about data and how to visualize it at a three-day camp this summer.

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Single-crystal, 2D covalent organic frameworks

In a study published in Science, researchers’ findings enable a broad exploration of synthetic 2D polymer structures and properties. This work was a multidisciplinary team effort including DOE’s CNM and APS user facilities at Argonne.

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Tune in to tetrahedral superstructures

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers from Argonne’s CNM working with Brown University have packed non-spherical nanocrystals into complex superstructures – including some with chirality.

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials

Exploring defect dynamics in 2-D MoS2

In a recent study published in ACS Nano, researchers advanced the current understanding of defect structure/evolution and structural transitions in 2D TMDs, which is crucial for designing nanoscale devices with desired functionality.

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Revealing the intrinsic nature of quantum transitions in non-classical photon sources

In a study published in Nano Letters, researchers present an approach for disentangling the effects of dipole degeneracy and electric field renormalization on emission anisotropy.

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