Wah-Keat Lee, Lijuan Ruan, and Alistair Rogers—all researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory—explored the complexities, challenges, and opportunities facing the national lab system and DOE as 2023 Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program (OSELP) fellows.
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced that a team led by Dr. Minah Seo of the Sensor Systems Research Center & KU-KIST Graduate School and Prof. Yong-Sang Ryu of School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Health Sciences, Korea University, has developed a non-contact terahertz light sensor.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, and Stony Brook University have developed a universal method for producing a wide variety of designed metallic and semiconductor 3D nanostructures—the potential base materials for next-generation semiconductor devices, neuromorphic computing, and advanced energy applications.
Recently, a research team from Hainan University and East China Normal University designed a site-resolved tunnelling experiment using Ar-Kr+ as a prototype system with an internuclear distance of 0.39 nm to track the electron tunneling via the neighboring atom in the system of sub-nanometer scale.
ASU is developing an underground construction tool that would deploy medium-voltage electrical cables and conduits simultaneously underground with a lower risk to existing utilities, also reducing costs and schedule impacts from reaming and duct pulling tasks.
Emerging research from the Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) suggests it may be easier to use fusion as a power source if liquid lithium is applied to the internal walls of the device housing the plasma.
Conducting neutron scattering experiments at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL and Corning scientists discovered that as the number of smaller, less-stable atomic rings in a glass increases, the instability, or liquid fragility, of the glass also increases.
Researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering achieved a major breakthrough in Redox Flow Desalination (RFD), an emerging electrochemical technique that can turn seawater into potable drinking water and also store affordable renewable energy.
A team from Sandia National Laboratories and New Mexico State University is work to make a vision of a self-healing electrical possible — not with tiny robots, but rather a cutting-edge library of algorithms.
We are tasking our computers with processing ever-increasing amounts of data to speed up drug discovery, improve weather and climate predictions, train artificial intelligence, and much more.
A breakthrough technology has been developed that enables the production of green hydrogen in a more cost-effective and environmentally friendly manner, bringing us closer to a carbon-neutral society by replacing expensive precious metal catalysts.
Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a new, more environmentally friendly way to create conductive inks for use in organic electronics such as solar cells, artificial neurons, and soft sensors. The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, pave the way for future sustainable technology.
The KIER is making a leap towards global collaboration by partnering with prominent European organizations, including the top-rated energy research institute Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie.
Climate change has increased the demand for renewable energy sources, driving hydropower development.
Ghent University researcher Ilse De Looze led the study on the Green Monster with her DustOrigin team and revealed its true nature: "the Green Monster is photobombing the supernova remnant Cas A rather than being part of it".
Many electric vehicles are powered by batteries that contain cobalt — a metal that carries high financial, environmental, and social costs.
MIT researchers have developed a battery-free, self-powered sensor that can harvest energy from its environment.
Scientists have developed a new way to study the shapes of atomic nuclei and their building blocks by modeling the production of particles produced in high-energy electron-nucleus collisions in the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).
Coal is an abundant resource in the United States that has, unfortunately, contributed to climate change through its use as a fossil fuel.
With support from the Q-NEXT quantum center, scientists leverage nanoscale-research facilities to conduct pioneering precision studies of qubits in silicon carbide, leading to a better understanding of quantum devices and higher performance.
10 postdoctoral researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory were recently recognized at the laboratory’s 2023 Postdoctoral Performance Awards, which were presented in a ceremony on Nov. 9.
Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by Dr. Amr S. Helmy, have developed a new method for integrating electro-optic SiO2/ITO heterointerfaces into MIS structures.
A joint study by the University of Tübingen, the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, the University of Osnabrück and the University of Rwanda has found that 80 percent of the energy required in Africa could come from renewable sources by 2040 – if the capacity of existing power plants were fully utilized and all the plants currently on the drawing-board were built.
A composite control scheme for high-speed maglev trains is proposed to address the issues of track irregularities and external disturbances that cause unstable train operation during operation.
The software tool sorts through messy data to reveal what’s really going on with solar panels on cloudy and sunny days.
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory studied how insect communities responded to newly established habitats on solar energy facilities built on retired agricultural land. At the end of five years, all habitat and biodiversity metrics increased.
Humans store water in huge metal towers and deep concrete reservoirs. But nature’s water storage is much more scenic – the snowpack that tops majestic mountains.
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has named Robert Wagner associate laboratory director for the Energy Science and Technology Directorate, effective Feb. 1.
The equations that describe physical systems often assume that measurable features of the system — temperature or chemical potential, for example — can be known exactly.
A RUDN University mathematician with colleagues from China and Saudi Arabia developed a neural network that increased the energy efficiency of a wireless network built on drone routers.
A RUDN University mathematician with colleagues from Egypt, China, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan proposed a stable and fast approach for optimal resource allocation in a wireless network on drones. This will allow for economical use of battery power on drones while ensuring maximum network throughput.
or over two decades, Sasin School of Management has been pushing forth sustainability efforts in Thailand and Sasin’s Southeast Asia through Sustainability & Entrepreneurship Center.
Is it possible to amp up the energy production of mitochondria, the “power centers” of cells, without also boosting potentially harmful byproducts? If so, such a method could be used to treat a host of neurodegenerative diseases in which impaired mitochondria are believed to play a central role.
It’s possible to significantly reduce the temperatures of a major city in a hot desert climate while reducing energy costs, a new study by UNSW Sydney shows.
Ethylene is sometimes called the most important chemical in the petrochemical industry because it serves as the feedstock for a huge range of everyday products.
Georgia Tech researchers have engineered one of the world’s first yeast cells able to harness energy from light, expanding our understanding of the evolution of this trait — and paving the way for advancements in biofuel production and cellular aging.
Semiconductors in photoelectrochemical cells can convert water into hydrogen for fuel. To develop this technology, researchers have developed a technique to measure these devices’ photovoltage, or energy output, quantitively. The technique avoids the difficulty of attaching wires to the front of the semiconductors in contact with water.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a new theoretical model explaining one way to make black silicon, an important material used in solar cells.
Using the DOE-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, the Dark Energy Survey has obtained the largest supernova sample ever using a single telescope.
As most shoppers looking for a new vehicle know, electric vehicles typically carry a relatively hefty price tag. A primary contributor to this expense are the lithium-ion batteries that power the vehicle. Significantly reducing that cost would bring us closer to transportation solutions that are eco- and wallet-friendly. Researchers at the U.
Margaux Lopez is one of a team of engineers preparing the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile for the arrival of the largest digital camera ever built for astrophysics and cosmology.
Not only do many bats die at wind turbines, the turbines also displace some species from their habitats over large areas.
Assistant Professor Olugbenga Moses Anubi’s project “Concurrent Learning Cyber-Physical Framework for Resilient Electric Power System,” or CyberPREPS, will allow energy transmission systems to keep functioning in the wake of cyberattacks.
Seismic events that coincided with sudden drops in pressure within the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural gas pipelines in September 2022 alerted the world to the rupture of pipelines in the western Baltic Sea.
Scientists at ORNL have developed a technique for recovering and recycling critical materials that has garnered special recognition from a peer-reviewed materials journal and received a new phase of funding for research and development.
New research featuring faculty from Binghamton University, State University of New York reveals how corrosion happens on the atomic level.
A unique n-TiO2/BaTiO3/p-TiO2 heterojunction has been designed which couples with piezoelectric effect and p-n junction.
Plasma confinement in a tokamak can potentially cause pressure gradients that lead to instabilities in the plasma, disrupting tokamak performance.
Binghamton University, State University of New York Distinguished Professor and Nobel Laureate M. Stanley Whittingham has been chosen as the joint winner of the $3 million 2023 VinFuture Grand Prize in recognition of his contributions to the invention of lithium-ion batteries.
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