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Argonne recently hosted an InnovationXLab Summit on Artificial Intelligence. The event drew approximately 400 scientists, engineers and policymakers to discuss how national laboratories and industry could together reap the potential benefits of AI. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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InnovationXLab Summit brings industry, national laboratories together around artificial intelligence

Summit kicks off the conversation between laboratories, companies about how AI can transform society.

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Argonne nuclear engineer J’Tia Hart selected to Crain’s Chicago Business “40 Under 40”

Argonne nuclear engineer honored for her outreach efforts

Global Security, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Engineering

Catherine Hurley and team have been awarded the Federal Green Challenge award.

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Lab-wide stormwater capture, transportation savings and clean-up efforts win federal recognition

The award recognized myriad efforts, including “Disposal Days.” Thirty metric tons of electronics were processed through the effort. Seventeen dumpsters were filled with scrap metal, representing 36 metric tons of material recycled.

Waste Management, Awards and Recognition, Environmental Protection

Jiali Wang and Rao Kotamarthi were co-authors on the Geoscientific Model Development that focused on the planetary boundary layer.

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Deep neural networks speed up weather and climate models

Researchers develop low-cost models to predict how short-term and long-term changes in weather patterns affect the local scale — down to neighborhoods or specific critical infrastructure.

Computational Science, Modeling and Simulation, Machine Learning

Report Cover - Survey results conclude that there have been significant improvements in energy efficiency and water conservation.

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Biofuel producers make significant gains in efficiency, productivity and conservation, Argonne survey shows

Survey results showed that the biofuel industry has made marked efforts to conserve resources, diversify product portfolio, recycle and reuse water and improve productivity.

Energy Systems, energy-water nexus, biofuel

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Argonne lends a hand toward climate and weather understanding

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ALCF Selects New Projects for Data Science Program

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New Clues in the Hunt for a Room-Temperature Superconductor

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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.

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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.

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(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.

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Unique spectral response in a mechanical device

Using a single actuation signal, a frequency comb is generated in a micromechanical resonator from two vibrational modes, flexural and torsional, whose interactions are responsible for the unique response.

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Assessing R&D Needs for Electric Aviation

December 10, 2019|8:00 AM | Building 240

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Nonlinear and Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Colloidal Nanomaterials

November 13, 2019|11:00 PM | Building 200

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Engineering Superconductivity in Semiconductor Nanowires for Quantum Device Applications

November 14, 2019|1:00 PM | Building 222

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Chemical Selectivity in Surface Deposition Reactions

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