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Creating and observing current vortices in 2D materials

Surprise result brings us one step closer to designing more flexible technologies

January 21, 2020 | Scientific Data Management, Quantum Information Science

PhD student Paul Jerger adjusts the mount that lets researchers rotate and position their magnet.

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Rising global temperatures turn northern permafrost region into significant carbon source

Comprehensive study highlights the need for more research on CO₂ emissions in the permafrost region.

January 21, 2020 | Environmental and Earth Science, Atmospheric Science, Climate Science

David Cook, a recently retired Argonne meteorologist, performs maintenance on an eddy correlation flux measurement tower, operated by the DOE-funded Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program, in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. The tower exemplifies one of several types of instrumentation used to generate the data in this study.

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Scientists pioneer new generation of semiconductor neutron detector

Scientists discover new neutron-detecting material for applications in science and national security

January 15, 2020 | Global Security, Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction

Neutron detector based on a single crystal of LiInP2Se6 .

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New quantum loop provides long national testbed for quantum communication technology

Argonne, UChicago scientists perform initial measurements through a 52-mile fiber-optic testbed

January 10, 2020 | Quantum Information Science

Argonne scientists, (left to right) Sean Sullivan, Gary Wolfowicz, Joseph Heremans and Alan Dibos, worked on the quantum loop project and demonstrated the operation of the testbed by generating, transmitting, and detecting optical pulses through one and then both fiber loops.

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Scientists observe ultrafast birth of radicals

An international team led by Argonne has visualized the elusive, ultrafast proton transfer process following the ionization of water.

January 09, 2020 | fundamental interactions, Scientific User Facilities, water

X-rays capture the ultrafast proton transfer reaction in ionized liquid water - forming the hydroxyl radical (OH) and the hydronium (H3O+) ion.

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Exploring the “dark side” of a single-crystal complex oxide thin film

Analysis from a team led by Argonne researchers reveals never-before-seen details about a type of thin film being explored for advanced microelectronics.

January 06, 2020 | Chemistry, Crystallography, Materials Science and Engineering

Argonne scientists have looked at the local ferroelectric properties of the bottom atomic layers of freestanding complex oxide PZT detached from the epitaxial substrate. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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Advancing information processing with exceptional points and surfaces

Scientists build an exceptional surface out of exceptional points

December 19, 2019 | Sensors and Detectors, Theory, quantum materials

Left graph plots exceptional point conditions in three-dimensional space, calculated from experimental measurements in CNM, forming an exceptional surface with an exceptional saddle point, indicated by the point at the intersection of the dark lines on the surface. Right graph plots energy dissipations of the two modes (photon and magnon), where different dependences on the tuning parameters occur near the intersection of blue and red surfaces.

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JCESR director George Crabtree recognized for outstanding achievements in science and technology

JCESR director George Crabtree inducted into the American Academy for Arts and Sciences for his work in energy storage and materials science

December 19, 2019 | Batteries and Fuel Cells, Energy Systems, Awards and Recognition

Playing the angles with dramatic effect

December 18, 2019

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Battery collaboration meeting discusses new pathways to recycle lithium-ion batteries

Argonne joins with industry to address the battery recycling challenge

December 09, 2019 | Energy Technology and Storage, Batteries and Fuel Cells, Environmental and Earth Science

Direct recycling recovers cathode material instead of metal salts, offering the most potential for cost effectiveness