Department of Energy awards $4.6 million to Argonne to support collaborations with industry

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced more than $24 million in funding for 77 projects aimed at advancing commercialization of promising energy technologies and strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Laboratories and...
16-Jul-2019 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

The best of both worlds: how to solve real problems on modern quantum computers

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with researchers at Clemson University and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, have developed hybrid algorithms to run on...
11-Jul-2019 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Giving nanowires a DNA-like twist

Argonne National Laboratory played a critical role in the discovery of a DNA-like twisted crystal structure created with a germanium sulfide nanowire, also known as a “van der Waals material.” Researchers can tailor these nanowires in many...
10-Jul-2019 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Argonne’s Jim Morman Elected Fellow of American Nuclear Society

Jim Morman from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has been elected a fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), the highest grade of membership that the society offers.
3-Jul-2019 10:35 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Scientists seek solar clues in a material with split nature

In a recent study, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory performed a novel type of experiment that reveals new insights concerning how energy moves in methylammonium lead iodide, a promising perovskite...
2-Jul-2019 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Confirmation of old theory leads to new breakthrough in superconductor science

Scientists at Harvard have developed a superconductor that is only one nanometer thick. By studying fluctuations in this ultra-thin material as it transitions into superconductivity, the scientists gained insight into the processes that drive...
28-Jun-2019 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

U.S. Department of Energy Renews Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials

The Department of Energy has announced that, over the next four years, it will invest $32 million to accelerate the design of new materials through use of high-performance computing. One of the seven funded projects is the Midwest Integrated Center...
27-Jun-2019 9:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Practice makes perfect

Argonne researchers are beginning to employ Bayesian methods in developing optimal models of thermodynamic properties. Research available online for the September 2019 issue of the International Journal of Engineering Science focused on hafnium...
26-Jun-2019 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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