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A Nanocrystal Shines On and Off Indefinitely
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
In 2021, lanthanide-doped nanoparticles made waves—or rather, an avalanche—when Changwan Lee, then a PhD student in Jim Schuck’s lab at Columbia Engineering, set off an extreme light-producing chain reaction from ultrasmall crystals developed at the Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Lab.
Clemson University team leads sustainable energy research
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
A group of Clemson University researchers led a study that was recently published in the journal Nature Communications and is aimed at developing advanced materials for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and building a clean and sustainable energy future.
Landmark yeast study provides framework for understanding biodiversity, applications
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Better understanding of the family responsible for nearly all bread, fermented drinks, and biofuels creates a path to finding new strains with potentially useful traits.
New nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
A low-cost, recyclable powder can kill thousands of waterborne bacteria per second when exposed to sunlight.
DOE Announces Over $21 Million to Advance Commercialization of Clean Energy Solutions
By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2023
Release: New Investments Will Increase Access to Clean Energy Technologies and Support America’s Transition to a Clean Energy Economy
Fusion Simulations Reveal the Multi-Scale Nature of Tokamak Turbulence
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Creating efficient, self-sustaining fusion power requires good confinement of the heat in the plasma.
Directly Imaging Quantum States in Two-Dimensional Materials
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
When some semiconductors absorb light, excitons (or particle pairs made of an electron bound to an electron hole) can form.
STAR Physicists Track Sequential ‘Melting’ of Upsilons
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Scientists use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a Department of Energy user facility, to recreate and study the hot particle soup that existed in the very early universe.
To Advance Microbiome Research, the National Microbiome Data Collaborative Ambassador Program Promotes Microbiome Data Standards
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Researchers have predicted that our planet may be home to one trillion species of microbes.
Getting to the Bottom of When the Smallest Meson Melts
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Theorists have performed calculations to predict the temperature at which bottomonium mesons will melt.
Researchers Demonstrate First Precision Gene Editing in Miscanthus
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Adaptable and easy to grow, miscanthus (or silvergrass) shows great potential as a sustainable bioenergy crop.
Getting to the Bottom of When the Smallest Meson Melts
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Theorists have performed calculations to predict the temperature at which bottomonium mesons will melt.
Scientists Develop Inorganic Resins for Generating and Purifying Radium and Actinium
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Targeted alpha therapy can destroy cancerous cells without harming healthy cells.
A Low-Energy ‘Off Switch’ for Quark-Gluon Plasma
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Physicists can create an exotic state of matter known as a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by colliding gold nuclei together.
Energy Department discusses ANR Pipeline Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization and Establishing Intervention and Protest Deadline on June 23
By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2023
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on June 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
Resolving a Mathematical Puzzle in Quarks and Gluons in Nuclear Matter
By Alyssa Marie Dasal | Jun 24, 2023
The building blocks of atomic nuclei are protons and neutrons, which are themselves made of even more fundamental particles: quarks and gluons.
HERACLES beamline to accelerate cathode research
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Cornell is breaking new ground in electron beam research with the HERACLES beamline, a state-of-the-art electron gun that mimics the harsh environments of the world’s largest particle colliders.
‘Noise-cancelling’ qubits developed at UChicago to minimize errors in quantum computers
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Despite their immense promise to solve new kinds of problems, today’s quantum computers are inherently prone to error.
ODU Doctoral Student, Ronglong Fang, Awarded Department of Energy Graduate Fellowship
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Old Dominion University Mathematics doctoral student, Ronglong Fang, will apply his mathematics research skills to help further our understanding of the building blocks of matter in the Department of Energy.
Making the structure of ‘fire ice’ with nanoparticles
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
The structure harnesses a strange physical phenomenon and could enable engineers to manipulate light in new ways