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Sandia engineer Tony Garcia recognized with a prestigious 2023 Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers STAR of Today award for technical achievement.

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Just like a book can’t be judged by its cover, a material can’t always be judged by its surface. But, for an elusive conjectured class of materials, physicists have now shown that the surface previously thought to be “featureless” holds an unmistakable signature that could lead to the first definitive observation.

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The software tool sorts through messy data to reveal what’s really going on with solar panels on cloudy and sunny days.

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Researchers from Osaka University and their collaborating partners improve the efficiency of thermoelectric conversion from a semiconductor, which could help optimize the efficiency and sustainability of the global digital transformation.

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RUDN University professor strengthened ordinary concrete with epoxy resin. The author was the first to show that in this way it is possible to make concrete 80-100% stronger, taking into account the corrosive influence of an aggressive environment.

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The researchers have addressed challenges in data retention and endurance of these devices by developing a silver-dispersive chalcogenide thin film.

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New findings debunk previous wisdom that solid-state qubits need to be super dilute in an ultra-clean material to achieve long lifetimes. Instead, cram lots of rare-earth ions into a crystal and some will form pairs that act as highly coherent qubits, shows paper in Nature Physics.

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Researchers move a step closer to making conventional optoelectronic devices more lightweight and flexible.

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Ethylene is sometimes called the most important chemical in the petrochemical industry because it serves as the feedstock for a huge range of everyday products.

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Argonne is leading a U.S. Department of Energy-funded project to safely speed up medical isotope production through a remotely-operated “hot box.”

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An insight into preventing perovskite semiconductors from degrading quickly, discovered at the University of Michigan, could help enable solar cells estimated to be two to four times cheaper than today's thin-film solar panels.

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Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a neural implant that provides information about activity deep inside the brain while sitting on its surface.

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Semiconductors in photoelectrochemical cells can convert water into hydrogen for fuel. To develop this technology, researchers have developed a technique to measure these devices’ photovoltage, or energy output, quantitively. The technique avoids the difficulty of attaching wires to the front of the semiconductors in contact with water.

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In an AI-based exploration of 160 billion organic molecules, Argonne National Laboratory scientists identified about 40 liquid hydrogen carriers that could one day fuel cars, trucks, buses, trains and ships and generate energy for consumers.

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In this work, researchers from South China University of Technology (SCUT) successfully synthesized a Cr3+ doped perovskite-type LaAlO3 mechanoluminescence (ML) phosphor.

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A study published today in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability has found that green ammonia could be used to fulfil the fuel demands of over 60% of global shipping by targeting just the top 10 regional fuel ports.

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The convergence of artificial intelligence, cloud, and high-performance computing to accelerate scientific discovery is the focus of a multi-year collaboration between Microsoft and PNNL.

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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a new theoretical model explaining one way to make black silicon, an important material used in solar cells.

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Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are essential engineering systems that protect human health and ecological sustainability by eliminating pollutants.

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New 2023 patent data rankings highlight escalating areas of R&D activity, according to an annual patent study by Digital Science company IFI CLAIMS.

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The construction industry as a CO2 sink? Researchers at Empa's Concrete & Asphalt lab are working on this. By incorporating biochar into concrete, they are exploring the potential of CO2-neutral or even CO2-negative concrete.

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Irvine, Calif., Jan 4, 2024 — With a split-second muscle contraction, the greater blue-ringed octopus can change the size and color of the namesake patterns on its skin for purposes of deception, camouflage and signaling.

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New study sheds light on the previously overlooked Mongolian Arc—a monumental wall system in eastern Mongolia spanning 405 kilometers.

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Jack Orebaugh, a forensic anthropology major at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, used his internship at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to find better ways to search for lost and deceased people using cameras and drones.

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Scientists at ORNL have developed a technique for recovering and recycling critical materials that has garnered special recognition from a peer-reviewed materials journal and received a new phase of funding for research and development.

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New research featuring faculty from Binghamton University, State University of New York reveals how corrosion happens on the atomic level.

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Binghamton University, State University of New York Distinguished Professor and Nobel Laureate M. Stanley Whittingham has been chosen as the joint winner of the $3 million 2023 VinFuture Grand Prize in recognition of his contributions to the invention of lithium-ion batteries.

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The Korean artificial sun, KSTAR, has completed divertor upgrades, allowing it to operate for extended periods sustaining high-temperature plasma over the 100 million degrees.

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Researchers from Princeton University, City University of Hong Kong, and University of Kassel have developed a high-speed focal scanning method for laser processing that that can significantly improve processing times.

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Women engineers at Sandia National Laboratories achieved significant recognition in 2023 from the Society of Women Engineers. These accolades included Advocating Women in Engineering, Distinguished New Engineer and 10 patent recognition awards.

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The research team led by Research Director Hyuneui Lim of the Nano-Convergence Manufacturing Systems Research Division and Principle Researcher Youngdo Jung of the Department of Nature-Inspired System and Application of the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials(KIMM), developed a real-time and multimodal tactile perception system capable of providing multi-tactile information in real time inspired by human tactile perception, and announced the outcome of the research in the renowned journal “Soft Robotics.”

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The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) announced the development of a new modular construction method capable of building structures by assembling modular components within a short time, particularly in cases of emergencies or disasters

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With the rise in machine learning applications and artificial intelligence, it's no wonder that more and more scientists and researchers are turning to supercomputers. Supercomputers are commonly used for making predictions with advanced modeling and simulations. This can be applied to climate research, weather forecasting, genomic sequencing, space exploration, aviation engineering and more.

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A newly developed, highly conductive copper wire could find applications in the electric grid, as well as in homes and businesses.

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The U.S. Department of Energy has approved funding for three projects focused on integrating scientific computing with user facility light sources.

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As industrial computing needs grow, the size and energy consumption of the hardware needed to keep up with those needs grows as well.

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Eric Burger has been named a 2023 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

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University of West Florida faculty and undergraduate students recently developed Pulsed Medical LED goggles for the early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease.

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David Kaplan, the Stern Family Endowed Professor of Engineering at Tufts University, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

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Martin Green, Scientia Professor and world-leading silicon cell pioneer at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia, has won the 2023 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy from the University of Louisville.

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Researcher’s honor is awarded to less than 3% of Laboratory’s scientific staff.

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In geospatial exploration, the quest for efficient identification of regions of interest has recently taken a leap forward with visual active search (VAS).

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Kelli Kizer, APS procurement manager, ensures the success of the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade.

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A seemingly simple shift in lithium-ion battery manufacturing could pay big dividends, improving electric vehicles’ ability to store more energy per charge and to withstand more charging cycles.

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Jinming Gao, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, and Pharmacology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been selected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in recognition of his efforts to develop innovative nanotechnology platforms to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment.