Department of Energy Awards Flow Into Argonne

DOE Secretary Rick Perry awarded Argonne with nearly $4.7 million in projects as part of the DOE’s Office of Technology Transition’s Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) in September.
18-Oct-2017 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Exascale and the City

The Argonne-led Multiscale Coupled Urban Systems project will create a computational framework for urban developers and planners to evaluate integrated models of city systems and processes.
17-Oct-2017 10:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Demystifying Nuclear Energy

As part of Argonne’s summer internship program, four college students focused on nuclear energy projects for the laboratory, ranging from the nuts and bolts of a reactor to education and non-proliferation.
13-Oct-2017 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Purple Power: Synthetic ‘Purple Membranes’ Transform Sunlight to Hydrogen Fuel

Argonne researchers have found a new way to produce solar fuels by developing “synthetic purple membranes.” These membranes involve an assembly of lipid nanodiscs, man-made proteins, and semiconducting nanoparticles that, when taken together,...
12-Oct-2017 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Forget About It

Inspired by human forgetfulness – how our brains discard unnecessary data to make room for new information — scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory...
10-Oct-2017 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Lighten Up

To accelerate innovation and adoption of new lightweighting technologies for on-highway vehicles, the Lightweight Materials National Laboratory Consortium, or LightMAT, is overseeing a second directed funding- assistance call. Interested industry...
9-Oct-2017 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Leaning Into the Supercomputing Learning Curve

Scientists need to learn how to take advantage of exascale computing. This is the mission of the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), which held its annual two-week training workshops over the summer.
9-Oct-2017 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Stairway to Science

The ACT-SO program launches high school student on path to Argonne’s student research program, a provisional patent and the pursuit of degree at Washington University in St. Louis.
3-Oct-2017 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites