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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have tested the performance of a new device that boosts particle signals.

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A pilot program led by Argonne and the Civic Infrastructure Collaborative uncovers a fun and creative way to make urban transportation more environmentally friendly.

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An international team of scientists captures the first clear evidence in the field of Criegee intermediates, which help form aerosols in the atmosphere that impact air quality and human health.

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Research groups from Argonne National Laboratory receive 2023 Secretary of Energy Honor Awards, considered the highest form of recognition by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Scientists develop a method for examining what happens when nanoelectronic materials switch between conducting and nonconducting phases. This may accelerate the development of neural-like circuits for use in nanoelectronic devices.

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Argonne’s enhanced NERDE data explorer provides community leaders with insights into local economic distress, employment and gross domestic product, local industry clusters, climate risk, and innovation to inform economic resilience planning.

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Eighth-grade girls from the Chicago area attend the laboratory’s Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, designed to inspire young women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

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Niobium has long been considered an underperformer in superconducting qubits. Scientists supported by Q-NEXT, a US DOE quantum center led by Argonne, have now engineered a high-quality niobium-based qubit, taking advantage of niobium’s superior qualities.

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Argonne awarded $4 million to research new materials to develop energy-efficient microchips.

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Analyzing DNA is routine in health care, but some genetic samples come from wilder places. Argonne National Laboratory’s Environmental Sample Preparation and Sequencing Facility has the skills to study nature’s weirdest, rarest genetic material.

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More than 75 college students competed to test their skills in the fundamentals of IT and cybersecurity infrastructure in the DOE CyberForce Program’s inaugural Conquer the Hill — Command Edition competition.

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A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have discovered an intriguing ​“cooperative” behavior among components in batteries that points to an exciting new approach to designing next-generation technologies. The team found that combining two different types of anions, negatively charged ions, with cations, positively charged ions, can significantly improve the overall battery’s performance.

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An ingredient in many toothpastes is sodium fluoride, a compound of fluorine. It is added to protect teeth against decay. But compounds containing fluorine have other practical uses that might surprise you. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory scientists have discovered a fluoride electrolyte that could protect a next generation battery against performance decline.

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory scientists have discovered a new pathway to enhance lithium-sulfur batteries, addressing their major drawback of short lifetimes. The discovery, published in Nature, reveals a previously unknown reaction mechanism that overcomes rapid performance decline in lithium-sulfur batteries.

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The U.S, Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory researchers have invented and patented a new cathode material that could pave the way for eco- and budget-friendly electric vehicles. The material is inspired by earlier work at Argonne that led to the lithium-ion batteries in the Chevy Volt and Bolt. It could help the supply of low-cost and abundant elements for electric vehicle batteries.

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A multi-institutional team reports the first look at electrons moving in real time in liquid water. Their findings could affect studies of radiation-induced processes, such as those in space travel, cancer treatments, nuclear reactors and legacy waste.

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Argonne received two awards for technology commercialization from the Federal Laboratory Consortium.

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To celebrate Black History Month, Argonne is pleased to highlight six employees and one up-and-coming high school STEM student who exemplify how a diverse team drives our science mission forward.

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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have used new generative AI techniques to propose new metal-organic framework materials that could offer enhanced abilities to capture carbon

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Argonne National Laboratory researchers have made new discoveries about the risks of prostate cancer in people with different genetic backgrounds.

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Past attendees of the annual Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing are thriving in careers across the field of high performance computing.

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A newly published study led by researchers from Argonne National Laboratory details early measurements from a new camera at the South Pole Telescope.

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Argonne scientists demonstrate potential of opposed-piston engine powered by zero-carbon hydrogen

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Argonne researchers have shed important new light on what the early signs of battery failure look like.

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Argonne will help a new water-focused innovation engine funded by the National Science Foundation to drive economic development in the Great Lakes region by finding new ways to recover clean water, energy and valuable materials from wastewater.

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The Mildred Dresselhaus Award recognizes Argonne chemist Lin X. Chen’s work in advanced structural dynamic studies.

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Argonne researchers address challenges scientists face in developing lifelong learning models for autonomous devices, such as self-driving cars, and recommends design principles going forward.

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Through its Nexus effort, Argonne National Laboratory is working to closely integrate supercomputers with experiments to help researchers keep pace with the ever-increasing influx of scientific data.

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Edward Schmitt is supporting Argonne’s efforts at the lab’s quantum materials foundry.

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Raeanna Sharp-Geiger will leverage her experience as chief operations officer for Argonne National Laboratory.

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Scientists using Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source have developed a multipurpose nanomaterial to aid in sustainable manufacturing.

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Argonne collaborates with Purdue University on new research aimed at lowering the cost of developing small nuclear reactors.

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Argonne provides graduate students with high-level mentorship and first-hand experience on their theses and STEM journeys

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As an engineer of high-performance molecular qubits, Q-NEXT collaborator and UChicago grad student Chloe Washabaugh takes on the erudite, the everyday and everything in between.

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Argonne received GAIN vouchers to work with ARC Clean Technology, Inc., SHINE Technologies, Global Nuclear Fuels - Americas and Energy Northwest.

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With support from the Q-NEXT quantum center, scientists leverage nanoscale-research facilities to conduct pioneering precision studies of qubits in silicon carbide, leading to a better understanding of quantum devices and higher performance.

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10 postdoctoral researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory were recently recognized at the laboratory’s 2023 Postdoctoral Performance Awards, which were presented in a ceremony on Nov. 9.

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Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory studied how insect communities responded to newly established habitats on solar energy facilities built on retired agricultural land. At the end of five years, all habitat and biodiversity metrics increased.

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ATLAS — the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System — can do even more ​“heavy lifting” for physics and nuclear science than previously thought.

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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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Despite growing up in the Chicago area, Yasleen Muñoz — currently studying environmental biology at Harold Washington City College in Chicago — knew very little about the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Lemont, Ill.Then one day this fall, she received an email out of the blue, inviting her to First Look@Argonne.

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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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As most shoppers looking for a new vehicle know, electric vehicles typically carry a relatively hefty price tag. A primary contributor to this expense are the lithium-ion batteries that power the vehicle. Significantly reducing that cost would bring us closer to transportation solutions that are eco- and wallet-friendly. Researchers at the U.

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An imaging method for sensitive materials conducted at Argonne National Laboratory reveals previously unseen changes in ice even when the temperatures are well below zero degrees Celsius.

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Conventional computer processors have pretty much maxed out their ​“clock speeds” — a measurement of how fast they can toggle on and off — due to limitations of electronic switching.

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Argonne National Laboratory’s Theta supercomputer will be retired at the end of 2023, ending a productive run of enabling scientific breakthroughs in areas ranging from materials discovery to supernova simulations.