News from 2023


Energy Department discusses Combined Notice of Filings on May 16

The US Energy Department published a one page notice on May 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Savannah River Site-Sponsored Robotics Team Makes Inroads at International Competition

News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM ) contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) once again sponsored a team from Aiken High School to join an international robotics championship competition.


DOE-NETL grant application closes on July 17

Facilitating a Domestic Critical Minerals Future: Carbon Ore, Rare Earths and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) Initiative grant opened on May 17.


Chair Duncan Opening Statement at Markup of Three Bills to Bolster America’s Energy Reliability & Security

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Chair Jeff Duncan (R-SC) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Energy, Climate, & Grid Security Subcommittee markup of three bills to bolster energy reliability and security.


Scientists Study Ice Formation in the Atmosphere

Proposing New Methods to Better Understand This Atmospheric Phenomenon


Putting hydrogen on solid ground: simulations with a machine learning model predict a new phase of solid hydrogen

Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is found everywhere from the dust filling most of outer space to the cores of stars to many substances here on Earth.


Class of 2023: Sierra Tutwiler puts her energy into energy

Sierra Tutwiler always knew she wanted to attend college. But she also knew that getting there wasn’t going to be easy. Her mom worked 60 hours a week in retail just to keep them afloat.


Innovation at Work: Nearly four decades of study filling 46 lab notebooks – all for better batteries

Steve Martin has seven plaques hanging above his office windows, each commemorating an invention or co-invention, each showing off the front page of an official U.S. patent.


Husker duo part of national push for improved biofuels

Lincoln research that aims to transform sorghum into a sustainable feedstock for the bioeconomy is receiving renewed support from the U.S. Department of Energy.


Chemists tackle the tough challenge of recycling mixed plastics

Plastics are everywhere in our daily lives, but not all plastics are created equal ­– far from it.


Newly Observed Effect Makes Atoms Transparent to Certain Frequencies of Light

A newly discovered phenomenon dubbed "collectively induced transparency" (CIT) causes groups of atoms to abruptly stop reflecting light at specific frequencies.


Technology Ventures Inventor Spotlight: Xiangbo "Henry" Meng

Xiangbo "Henry" Meng's research focuses on synthesis of new inorganic, organic and hybrid nanomaterials in precisely controllable modes at the atomic and molecular level, and development of high-performance energy-storage battery systems.


A physicist’s journey to the ‘critical point’ and the ‘strong force’

Yale physicist Helen Caines has arrived at a key juncture in her long campaign to understand the “critical point” and the “strong force” of nuclear matter.


Probing Lithium Ions Near a Solid’s Surface Reveals Clues to Boost Solid-State Battery Performance

An international team of researchers, including nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego, has uncovered nanoscale changes inside solid-state batteries that could offer new insights into improving battery performance.


Vanderbilt grad student awarded extended DOE residency to advance scholarship in transport of subatomic materials

Nicole Moehring, a fifth-year graduate student in interdisciplinary materials science, has been selected for an extended residency to continue her doctoral research at the Savannah River National Laboratory.


Frib Project Receives Doe-sc Office Of Project Assessment Award For 2022

The FRIB Project received the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of Project Assessment Award for 2022 on 11 April 2023 in Washington, DC.


CCRC to receive $14M from DOE in renewal of bioenergy center

The Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI), a multi-institutional initiative based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and co-led by University of Georgia researchers, has been renewed by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of four bioenergy research centers across the nation that advance robust, economical production of plant-based fuels and chemicals.


Energy Department discusses Kaukauna Utilities; Notice Soliciting Scoping Comments on May 17

The US Energy Department published a two page notice on May 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Health Subcommittee Chair Guthrie Opening Statement at Markup to Lower Costs & Increase Transparency

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Health Subcommittee markup to lower costs and increase transparency.


Health Subcommittee Markup Recap: E&C Advances Seven Bills to Lowers Costs and Expand Access to Care

News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans today advanced seven solutions during a Subcommittee on Health markup.