Research Highlights | Argonne National Laboratory

Solid-State Lithium-Air Cell Surpasses 1000 Cycles

In a paper published in Science, scientists report that a lithium-air test cell based on Li2O formation achieved 1000 cycles at room temperature.

February 02, 2023 | Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

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Wang Honored for Climate Leadership

Wang received the Climate Leadership Award at the 2023 Clean Fuels Conference.

February 01, 2023 | Awards and Recognition, ESIA Highlights

Dr. Michael Wang. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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Research collaboration project focused on energy justice

Understanding how the potential costs of supporting an increasing number of electric vehicles can be fairly distributed.

February 01, 2023 | ESIA Highlights, funding, Virginia

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Optimizing Renewable Energy Development and Ecosystem Services

Argonne scientists outline opportunities for the combination of solar energy and agricultural land uses.

January 25, 2023 | Renewable Energy, Ecosystem Services / Provisioning, Sustainability

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Project looks at power of big data to predict hydropower component failures

Developing new models that can use data generated by sensors on hydropower components to predict how the components will degrade over time and estimate a component’s remaining life.

January 17, 2023 | ESIA Highlights, funding, Michigan

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Collaboration to evaluate feasibility of powering offshore fish farms with marine energy

Determining the potential of powering offshore fish farms with ocean thermal energy conversion.

January 17, 2023 | ESIA Highlights, Florida, funding

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Quantum sensing for dark matter detection

In a paper appearing in AVS Quantum Science, researchers discuss how recent developments in defect-based quantum sensing pave the way for directional detection of dark matter.

January 16, 2023 | Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Quantum Information Science

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Quantum sensing of lithium ions at room temperature

As reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers achieved quantum sensing for quantifying chemical analytes in ambient conditions.

January 15, 2023 | Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

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Assembly of chiral nanoparticle superlattices

In a paper appearing in Nature, researchers report the self-assembly of perovskite-like superlattices from nanoscale tetrahedra on a silicon wafer.

January 13, 2023 | Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

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A ‘strange metal’ nickelate

In a study published in Science Advances, researchers report the fermiology and ‘strange metal’ behavior of a planar trilayer nickelate to be similar to that of cuprate superconductors.

January 13, 2023