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Released: 27-Feb-2019 4:05 PM EST
Scientists measure exact edge between superconducting and magnetic states
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have developed a method to accurately measure the “exact edge” or onset at which a magnetic field enters a superconducting material.

Released: 23-Jan-2019 12:05 PM EST
Taking magnetism for a spin:
Ames National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered the relaxation dynamics of a zero-field state in skyrmions, a spinning magnetic phenomenon that has potential applications in data storage and spintronic devices.

Released: 9-Jan-2019 12:05 PM EST
What should we do about single-use plastics?
Ames National Laboratory

A whole host critical plastic uses--- from the polypropylene syringes in your doctor’s office to the polystyrene packaging around your chicken at the grocery store--- probably aren’t going away any time soon. What should we do with this waste?

Released: 2-Jan-2019 4:20 PM EST
Physicists Uncover New Competing State of Matter in Superconducting Material
Ames National Laboratory

A team of experimentalists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and theoreticians at University of Alabama Birmingham discovered a remarkably long-lived new state of matter in an iron pnictide superconductor, which reveals a laser-induced formation of collective behaviors that compete with superconductivity.

Released: 19-Dec-2018 4:05 PM EST
Crystallizing success: New crucible design makes materials research safer, more accurate
Ames National Laboratory

Paul Canfield, a condensed matter physicist at Ames Laboratory, teamed up with LSP Industrial Ceramics, Inc., to build a better piece of lab equipment that now carries his name: Canfield crucible sets.

Released: 11-Dec-2018 10:05 AM EST
Costas Soukoulis elected to National Academy of Inventors
Ames National Laboratory

Costas Soukoulis, Ames Laboratory senior scientist and Iowa State University Frances M. Craig Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor, has been named as a 2018 National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow.

Released: 7-Nov-2018 2:05 PM EST
Scientists shuffle the deck to create materials with new quantum behaviors
Ames National Laboratory

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides or TMDCs—materials composed of metal nanolayers sandwiched between two other layers of chalcogens— have become extremely attractive to the research community due to their ability to exfoliate into 2D single layers.

Released: 18-Oct-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Pushing the (Extra Cold) Frontiers of Superconducting Science
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Ames Laboratory has developed a method to measure magnetic properties of superconducting and magnetic materials that exhibit unusual quantum behavior at very low temperatures in high magnetic fields.

Released: 2-Oct-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Critical Materials Institute takes major step toward printed anisotropic magnets
Ames National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute has taken a major step toward printed, aligned anisotropic magnets via additive manufacturing processes.

Released: 1-Oct-2018 4:00 PM EDT
Coming Soon to Exascale Computing: Software for Chemistry of Catalysis
Ames National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory is launching a four-year, $3.2 million project to develop software that will bring the power of exascale computers to the computational study and design of catalytic materials.

Released: 30-Aug-2018 3:30 PM EDT
Scientists Predict Superelastic Properties in a Group of Iron-Based Superconductors
Ames National Laboratory

A collaboration between scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main has computationally predicted a number of unique properties in a group of iron-based superconductors, including room-temperature super-elasticity.

Released: 28-Aug-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Rare-Earth Magnet Recycling Tech Wins Innovation Award
Ames National Laboratory

Researchers at the Critical Materials Institute (CMI) and Ames Laboratory invented a magnet recycling process in which magnets are dissolved in water-based solutions, recovering more than 99 percent purity rare earth elements.

25-Jul-2018 1:00 PM EDT
Unusual Rare Earth Compound Opens Doorway to New Class of Functional Materials
Ames National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered an earlier unknown discontinuous magnetoelastic transition in a rare-earth intermetallic. The mechanism of the material’s changing magnetic state is so unusual, it provides new possibilities for discovery of similar materials.

Released: 18-Jul-2018 11:05 AM EDT
The Relationship Between Charge Density Waves and Superconductivity? It’s Complicated.
Ames National Laboratory

For a long time, physicists have tried to understand the relationship between a periodic pattern of conduction electrons called a charge density wave (CDW), and another quantum order, superconductivity, or zero electrical resistance, in the same material. Do they compete? Co-exist? Co-operate? Do they go their separate ways?

Released: 5-Jul-2018 10:05 AM EDT
Ames Laboratory to lead new Center for Advancement of Topological Semimetals
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Ames Laboratory will receive $10.75 million over four yearrs for a new Center for Advancement of Topological Semimetals as one of the Department of Energy's Energy Frontier Research Centers.

Released: 21-Jun-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Ames Laboratory’s Ke Earns DOE Early Career Research Award
Ames National Laboratory

Ames Laboratory scientist Liqin Ke is one of 30 scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) national laboratories to be selected for funding as part of the DOE’s Early Career Research Program.

Released: 15-May-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Two Cool: A Pair of Patents Filed on Breakthrough Materials for Next-Gen Refrigerators
Ames National Laboratory

Scientists at the research consortium CaloriCool® are closer than ever to the materials needed for a new type of refrigeration technology that is markedly more energy efficient than current gas compression systems.

Released: 9-May-2018 1:30 PM EDT
Revealing the Mysteries of Superconductors: Ames Lab’s New Scope Takes a Closer Look
Ames National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has successfully demonstrated that a new type of optical magnetometer, the NV magnetoscope, can map a unique feature of superconductive materials that along with zero resistance defines the superconductivity itself.

Released: 1-May-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Ames Lab Takes the Guesswork Out of Discovering New High-Entropy Alloys
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has developed a method of computational analysis that can help predict the composition and properties of as-yet unmade high performance alloys.

Released: 19-Apr-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Rare Earth Magnet Recycling Is a Grind. This New Process Takes a Simpler Approach
Ames National Laboratory

A new recycling process developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute (CMI) turns discarded hard disk drive (HDD) magnets into new magnet material in a few steps, and tackles both the economic and environmental issues typically associated with mining e-waste for valuable materials.



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