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A roar of approval rang out at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory upon the announcement in October that John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino had won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. On December 10th in Stockholm, they received this highly coveted prize for their major contributions to the invention of the lithium-ion battery, which is a long-standing major focus of research at Argonne.

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Keywords: Advanced Photon Source, Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS), Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), Cell Analysis, Modeling, and Prototyping (CAMP) Facility, Center for Electrochemical Energy Science, Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Energy Technology and S

At a conference held by the ReCell Center, an advanced battery recycling collaboration based at Argonne, representatives from industry, government, and academia discussed innovative approaches for lithium-ion battery recycling.

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Keywords: Energy Technology and Storage, Batteries and Fuel Cells, Environmental and Earth Science, Modeling And Simulation, waste management, Business Development, Commercialization, Industry Engagement, Business partnerships, business opportunities, Business Relationships, Batteries, Lithium-ion batteries , Battery, Business capture, Energy and Global Security, E

Penn State researchers have developed a novel method that could enable the widespread use of silicon-based anodes, which allow electricity to enter a device, in rechargeable lithium ion batteries.

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Keywords: Chemical Engineering, Donghai Wang, electrical vehicles, Energy, Lithium Ion Batteries, Mechanical Engineering, Smartphones

Scientists may have figured out how dust particles can stick together to form planets, according to a Rutgers co-authored study that may also help to improve industrial processes. In homes, adhesion on contact can cause fine particles to form dust bunnies. Similarly in outer space, adhesion causes dust particles to stick together. Large particles, however, can combine due to gravity – an essential process in forming asteroids and planets. But between these two extremes, how aggregates grow has largely been a mystery until now.

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Keywords: Planets, dust, Particles, industrial processes, static electricity, Homes, Outer Space, Asteroids, Microgravity, interplanetary space, electrical charges, Aggregates, Magnets, Earth, fluidized bed reactors, Pharmaceuticals, plastics, reactor vessels, Reactors, electrical polarization, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Rutgers, New Jersey, NJ, University of Duisb

Antonino Miceli is the group leader of the Detectors Group in the X-ray Science Division of the Advanced Photon Source at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, a senior fellow at the Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering, and a senior scientist at the University of Chicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering.

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Keywords: X-Ray Spectroscopy, Chemistry, Early Career Award, Early Career Research Program, early career researchers

More and more electronics manufacturers are favoring organic LED displays for smartphones, TVs and computers because they are brighter and offer a greater color range.

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Keywords: Electronics, Semiconductors, Coupling

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an innovative control system for repurposed electric vehicle battery packs to store electricity for home use and are scaling up the technology to a large, power grid-level project.

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Keywords: Electric Vehicles, electric vehicle batteries, second use batteries, control system, Power Grid, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, grid energy storage

Columbia, NYU, Northeastern, St. John’s, SUNY Albany, SCCC, and USMA at West Point participated in the nationwide cyberdefense competition.

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Keywords: cyberforce, cyberdefense, Competition, Cybersecurity, Event, Nationwide, Energy Security, Energy Infrastructure, Cyberattack, National Security, Red Teaming, Workforce Development, Columbia University, New York University, Northeastern University, State University of New York, SUNY Albany, University at Albany, Suffolk County Community College, West Point, N

A team of Florida State University researchers studying new methods to remove toxic heavy metals from biosolids — the solid waste left over after sewage treatment — found the key is a brief spin through a microwave. The method removed three times the amount of lead from biosolids compared to conventional means and could reduce the total cost of processing by more than 60 percent, making it a possible engineering solution to help produce fertilizer and allow more people to live with clean soil and water.

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Keywords: Biosolids

UK's Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) has received a $1.8 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to transform coal tar pitch into high-value carbon fiber for use in aircraft, automobiles, sporting goods and other high-performance materials.

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Keywords: coal, coal tar pitch, Carbon Fiber, University Of Kentucky, Center for Applied Energy Research, Department of Energy (DOE)