Released: 3-Mar-2015 5:05 PM EST
New CMI Process Recycles Valuable Rare Earth Metals From Old Electronics
Ames National Laboratory

Scientists at the Critical Materials Institute have developed a two-step recovery process that makes recycling rare-earth metals easier and more cost-effective.

Released: 25-Mar-2015 2:05 PM EDT
Rare-Earth Innovation to Improve Nylon Manufacturing
Ames National Laboratory

The Critical Materials Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, has created a new chemical process that makes use of the widely available rare-earth metal cerium to improve the manufacture of nylon.

Released: 6-Apr-2015 11:05 AM EDT
“Explosive” Atom Movement Is New Window Into Growing Metal Nanostructures
Ames National Laboratory

Scientists expected to see slow, random movement when they dropped lead atoms on a lead-on-silicon surface. But they saw instead? Fast, organized atoms. The unusual “explosive” movement may represent a new way to grow perfect, tiny metal nanostructures for nanostransistors and nanomagnets.

Released: 24-Apr-2015 2:05 PM EDT
Ames Laboratory Scientists Create Cheaper Magnetic Material for Cars, Wind Turbines
Ames National Laboratory

Cerium is a widely available and inexpensive rare-earth metal. Ames Laboratory scientists have used it to create a high-performance magnet that's similar in performance to traditional dysprosium-containing magnets and could make wind turbines less expensive to manufacture.

Released: 30-Jun-2015 5:05 PM EDT
New CMI Process Recycles Magnets From Factory Floor
Ames National Laboratory

A new recycling method developed by scientists at the Critical Materials Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, recovers valuable rare-earth magnetic material from manufacturing waste.

Released: 30-Jun-2015 5:05 PM EDT
Homegrown Solution for Synchrotron Light Source
Ames National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory advanced ngle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) to help study the electronic properties of new materials.

Released: 31-Jul-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Magnetism at Nanoscale
Ames National Laboratory

As the demand grows for ever smaller, smarter electronics, so does the demand for understanding materials’ behavior at ever smaller scales. Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory are building a unique optical magnetometer to probe magnetism at the nano- and mesoscale.

Released: 14-Aug-2015 12:05 PM EDT
The Critical Second: CMI’s Second Year Doubles Research Milestones
Ames National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy's Critical Materials Institute, led by Ames Laboratory, has more than doubled its research accomplishments in its second year, bringing the total number of invention disclosures to 34.

Released: 1-Oct-2015 5:05 PM EDT
Ames Laboratory Scientists Create an All-Organic UV on-Chip Spectrometer
Ames National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has developed a near ultra-violet and all-organic light emitting diode (OLED) that can be used as an on-chip photosensor.

Released: 1-Oct-2015 5:05 PM EDT
Three Questions With: Ames Laboratory Cybersecurity Manager and Researcher Chris Strasburg
Ames National Laboratory

Ames Laboratory's Chris Strasburg discovered an interest in research while working in systems support and cybersecurity. He’s now the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory’s cybersecurity manager and working toward a Ph.D. in computer science at Iowa State University, studying artificial intelligence approaches, automation of computer languages, and network security.

Released: 12-Oct-2015 4:05 PM EDT
Not Shaken, Not Stirred: New Molecular Modeling Techniques for Catalysis in Unmixed Systems
Ames National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have developed molecular modeling simulations and new theoretical formulations to help understand and optimize catalytic reactions that take place in chemical environments where the reactant “ingredients” for catalysis are not well mixed.

Released: 16-Nov-2015 4:05 PM EST
Rare Earths for Life: An 85th Birthday Visit with Mr. Rare Earth
Ames National Laboratory

While scientists often talk about their life’s work, few lives have been fuller than that of Ames Laboratory’s Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr. who’s being honored for over six decades of research in the rare-earth metals.

Released: 30-Nov-2015 2:05 PM EST
Get Schooled in Rare-Earth Metals: CMI, Iowa State to Offer Unique Materials Science Class
Ames National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute and Iowa State University are offering a unique educational opportunity to get an in-depth overview of the rare-earth metals in a senior and graduate level course offered online spring semester 2016.

Released: 1-Dec-2015 12:05 PM EST
Need Rare-Earths Know-How? The Critical Materials Institute Offers Lower-Cost Access to Experts and Research
Ames National Laboratory

The Critical Materials Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation, is looking to strengthen its network of industrial, commercial, educational and government partners through a newly revamped and lower-cost affiliate membership program.

Released: 8-Dec-2015 10:05 AM EST
Ames Laboratory-Developed Titanium Powder Processing Gains International Customer Base
Ames National Laboratory

Titanium powder created with Ames Laboratory-developed gas-atomization technology has hit the market. Praxair Inc. now offers fine, spherical titanium powder for additive manufacturing and metal injection molding of aerospace, medical and industrial parts. It marks the first time large-scale amounts of titanium powder are available to industry with a potential for low-cost, high-volume manufacturing.

Released: 9-Dec-2015 12:05 PM EST
Mr. Rare Earth Easing Into Retirement
Ames National Laboratory

When Karl A. Gschneidner Jr. began work on his Ph.D. at Iowa State University and hired on as an Ames Laboratory graduate researcher in metallurgy, Dwight Eisenhower was serving his first term in the White House. Now, more than six decades later, Gschneidner is formally retiring effective Jan. 5, 2016 after a distinguished career that led him to become internationally recognized as Mr. Rare Earth.

Release date: 4-Jan-2016 2:05 PM EST
ames laboratory scientist s calculation featured on cover of physical review letters
Ames National Laboratory

Research performed by U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory Associate Scientist Durga Paudyal was recently featured on the cover of the November 13, 2015, issue of Physical Review Letters.

Released: 4-Jan-2016 3:05 PM EST
Ames Laboratory Scientist’s Calculation Featured on Cover of Physical Review Letters
Ames National Laboratory

Research performed by U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory Associate Scientist Durga Paudyal was recently featured on the cover of the November 13, 2015, issue of Physical Review Letters.

Released: 7-Jan-2016 1:05 PM EST
Four Ames Laboratory Physicists Named “Highly Cited” by Thomson Reuters
Ames National Laboratory

Four Ames Laboratory physicists -- Paul Canfield, Sergey Bud'ko, Thomas Koschny, and Costas Soukoulis -- were recently named to Thomson Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers 2015.

Released: 11-Jan-2016 10:05 AM EST
Ames Laboratory Scientist Named to National Academy of Inventors
Ames National Laboratory

Ames Laboratory scientist Iver Anderson has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

Released: 21-Jan-2016 5:05 PM EST
Ames Laboratory DNP-NMR Spectrometer Offers Higher Speed, More Precision
Ames National Laboratory

In just a little over a year of operation, the U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory’s dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer has successfully characterized materials at the atomic scale level with more speed and precision than ever possible before.

Released: 4-Feb-2016 3:05 PM EST
Canfield to Head APS Condensed Matter Division
Ames National Laboratory

Ames Laboratory physicist Paul Canfield has been elected to a four-year leadership stint for the Condensed Matter Physics Division of the American Physical Society. But he's also the star of an APS video explaining condensed matter's role in everyday life which led to an animated documentary, “So Close and Such a Stranger: a documentary about Condensed Matter Physics.”

Released: 12-Feb-2016 3:05 PM EST
How True Is Conventional Wisdom About Price Volatility of Tech Metals?
Ames National Laboratory

Preliminary research by the Colorado School of Mines (Mines) and funded by the Critical Materials Institute (CMI) suggests that conventional wisdom about the high price volatility of by-product metals and minerals is generally true, but with several caveats.

Released: 25-Feb-2016 3:05 PM EST
Ames Laboratory Will Lead New Consortium to Research Caloric Materials, Advance Refrigeration Technology
Ames National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory will be the home of a new research consortium for the discovery and development of more environmentally friendly and energy-efficient refrigeration technologies, sponsored by DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).

Released: 11-Mar-2016 2:35 PM EST
Ames Laboratory Scientists Join Consortium to Research Lightweight Materials
Ames National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory will play a key role in the Lightweight Materials National Lab Consortium, or LightMAT.

Released: 21-Mar-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Sisters in Science
Ames National Laboratory

Emma and Molly White and Ru-Shyan and Ru-Huey Yen, a pair of twin sisters and close friends who met in high school 16 years ago, went on to careers in STEM

Released: 31-Mar-2016 10:05 AM EDT
Waste Stream to Energy Source: What if America’s Next Big Fuel Source Is Its Trash?
Ames National Laboratory

National Laboratory researchers want to create energy conversion technologies designed to mine the carbon out of waste processes that traditionally have been an environmental burden to the planet.

Released: 11-Apr-2016 12:05 PM EDT
Ames Laboratory Physicists Discover New Type of Material That May Speed Computing
Ames National Laboratory

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered a topological metal, PtSn4 (platinum and tin), with a unique electronic structure that may someday lead to energy efficient computers with increased processor speeds and data storage.

Released: 15-Apr-2016 4:05 PM EDT
Ames Laboratory Scientist Inducted Into National Academy of Inventors
Ames National Laboratory

U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory senior metallurgist Iver Anderson was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) at a special ceremony in Washington, D.C. today at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Released: 25-Apr-2016 4:05 PM EDT
Giving Back to National Science Bowl
Ames National Laboratory

In the 1990s, Dean Jens and Doug Fuller were high school students playing on teams from Ankeny High School that were competing to secure coveted spots in the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl (NSB) ® competition. Today, they’re professionals, fathers, and devoted alumni whose annual volunteer commitment to the NSB allows them to give back to a competition that helped shape their lives.

Released: 10-May-2016 5:05 PM EDT
Finding the Next New Tech Material: The Computational Hunt for the Weird and Unusual
Ames National Laboratory

Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory are turning to the world of computation to guide their search for the next new material. Their program uses software code developed to map and predict the distinct structural, electronic, magnetic stable and metastable features that are often the source of an advanced material’s unique capabilities.

Released: 10-May-2016 5:05 PM EDT
Energy Secretary Moniz Dedicates New Research Facility at Ames Laboratory
Ames National Laboratory

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz emphasized the role of materials research in clean energy innovation Friday May 6 at the dedication of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory Sensitive Instrument Facility.

Released: 12-May-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Solving the Biomass Puzzle
Ames National Laboratory

Biomass holds great promise as a petroleum replacement, but unlocking its true potential remains a puzzle. A group of researchers at Iowa State University and the U.S Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory hope to develop the pieces of that puzzle to create a clearer picture of what takes place within a plant and how that applies to its downstream uses as biomass.

Released: 9-Jun-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Ames Laboratory Scientists Leave Their Mark on Future Researchers
Ames National Laboratory

Ames Laboratory scientists support the Department of Energy's commitment to STEM science through three distinct education programs.

Released: 20-Jun-2016 2:05 PM EDT
CMI Taps the Power of Supercomputing to Find Rare-Earth Refining Alternatives
Ames National Laboratory

A research project led by the Critical Materials Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub, has identified agents for the separation of rare-earth metals that are potentially much less costly and better-performing than those currently used.

Released: 22-Jul-2016 3:05 PM EDT
Newly Discovered Material Property May Lead to High Temp Superconductivity
Ames National Laboratory

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory have discovered an unusual property of purple bronze that may point to new ways to achieve high temperature superconductivity.

Released: 25-Jul-2016 1:05 PM EDT
Ames Laboratory Scientists Receive DOE Award to Help Commercialize Promising Technology
Ames National Laboratory

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Ames Laboratory senior metallurgist Iver Anderson and postdoctoral research associate Emma White have been awarded a $325,000 grant from the DOE’s Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF).

Released: 27-Jul-2016 3:05 PM EDT
Ames Laboratory PhD Student Is Awarded Margaret Butler Fellowship
Ames National Laboratory

U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University PhD student Colleen Bertoni has been named this year’s recipient of the Margaret Butler Fellowship in Computational Science.

Released: 15-Aug-2016 11:15 AM EDT
New Material Discovery Allows Study of Elusive Weyl Fermion
Ames National Laboratory

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered a new type of Weyl semimetal, a material that opens the way for further study of Weyl fermions, a type of massless elementary particle hypothesized by high-energy particle theory and potentially useful for creating high-speed electronic circuits and quantum computers.

Released: 7-Sep-2016 9:05 AM EDT
New perovskite research discoveries may lead to solar cell, LED advances
Ames National Laboratory

“Promising” and “remarkable” are two words U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory scientist Javier Vela uses to describe recent research results on organolead mixed-halide perovskites.

Released: 15-Sep-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Ames Laboratory’s Frederic Perras Awarded Banting Fellowship
Ames National Laboratory

Frédéric Perras, a post-doctoral researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has been awarded a Banting Fellowship by the Government of Canada and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Released: 27-Sep-2016 1:05 PM EDT
Ames Lab Discovers Way to Make Alane a Better Hydrogen Fuel Option for Vehicles
Ames National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, in collaboration with several partners, have discovered a less-expensive, more energy-efficient way to produce alane – aluminum trihydride – a hydrogen source widely considered to be a technological dead-end for use in automotive vehicles.

Released: 6-Oct-2016 3:05 PM EDT
New Equipment Allows Ames Laboratory, ISU Researchers to Simulate Commercial Materials Processing
Ames National Laboratory

New equipment installed as the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory lets researchers precisely control and measure what happens to materials during an array of simulated industrial processes from casting and forging to sintering and extrusion.

Released: 7-Oct-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Critical Materials Institute Announces Domestic Rare-Earth Magnet Partnership with INFINIUM
Ames National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute announced today a new partnership with INFINIUM, a metals production technology company, to demonstrate the production of rare-earth magnets sourced and manufactured entirely in the U.S.

   
Released: 10-Oct-2016 4:05 PM EDT
Ames Laboratory’s Debra Covey awarded Mid-Continent FLC Professional of Year Award
Ames National Laboratory

Debra Covey, associate lab director and director of Sponsored Research Administration at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has been named the 2016 Technology Transfer Professional of the Year by the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Mid-Continent Region.

Released: 12-Oct-2016 12:05 PM EDT
Critical Materials Institute Announces Multi-Faceted Research Partnership with Rio Tinto to Explore Recovery of Critical Minerals and Metals
Ames National Laboratory

The Critical Materials Institute (CMI) – a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory – announced today an important new research initiative in partnership with Rio Tinto, a mining and metals company. The new initiative aims to ensure that the United States fully leverages domestic mineral and metal resources necessary for global leadership in clean energy manufacturing.

Released: 13-Oct-2016 12:05 PM EDT
Ames Laboratory Senior Scientist Paul C. Canfield Receives James C. McGroddy Prize
Ames National Laboratory

Professor Paul C. Canfield, a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory has been awarded the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials by the American Physical Society (APS).

Released: 17-Oct-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Ames Laboratory to Receive $3 Million to Develop Instrument to Study Plant Cell Walls
Ames National Laboratory

A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory will be developing new instrumentation aimed at determining the chemical and structural makeup of plant cell walls. The group is receiving $1 million a year for three years from the DOE’s Office of Science to develop a subdiffraction Raman imaging platform that will provide an unprecedented look at the specific chemical structures of plant cell walls and then determine how best to deconstruct plant material as a source of biofuels.

Released: 18-Oct-2016 3:05 PM EDT
Ames Laboratory Scientists Gain Insight on Mechanism of Unconventional Superconductivity
Ames National Laboratory

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and partner institutions conducted a systematic investigation into the properties of the newest family of unconventional superconducting materials, iron-based compounds. The study may help the scientific community discover new superconducting materials with unique properties.

Released: 23-Nov-2016 11:05 AM EST
Ames Laboratory Scientists Create New Compound, First Intermetallic Double Salt with Platinum
Ames National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory are being credited with creating the first intermetallic double salt with platinum.


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