KERI's Eco-Friendly Insulating Gas Passes International Standards in Fault Current Interruption Tests, Accelerating the Development of Eco-Friendly Power Equipment and Paving the Way to Replace SF6, the Most Potent Greenhouse Gas
One of the largest studies to date finds the current generation of EV owners drive far fewer miles than owners of gas vehicles, translating to lower emissions savings from EVs.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Michael McGuire has received the lab’s Director’s Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology and the Distinguished Researcher award for his leadership and contributions to materials research.
Leading modeling experts from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and other institutions are sounding the alarm about the urgent need for improved energy system models in a recent Nature Energy paper.
The Geospatial Energy Mapper (GEM) from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is an interactive online mapping tool with an extensive catalog of mapping data for energy planning.
Networked intelligent devices and sensors can improve the energy efficiency of consumer products and buildings by monitoring their consumption in real time. Miniature devices like these being developed under the concept of the Internet of Things require energy sources that are as compact as possible in order to function autonomously.
The USA is likely to see consistent job growth from the transition to net zero, but the gains will be unevenly distributed, shows a new analysis. The analysis, conducted by Imperial College London researchers and published today in Nature Climate Change, shows that some states will need new policies to ensure a ‘just’ transition.
Defects in two-dimensional (2D) materials can give these materials special properties, but analyzing defects for useful variants is time consuming. Researchers developed an automated method to analyze these materials that combines scanning tunneling microscopy with artificial intelligence and machine learning.
The future of experimental particle physics is exciting – and energy intensive. SLAC physicists are thinking about how to make one proposal, the Cool Copper Collider, more sustainable.
Gaps in state and federal monitoring mean rural, poor, non-white and elderly communities disproportionally experience harmful health effects from compressor station pollution.
Researchers apply a ceramic conductor to a polymer electrolyte to increase conductivity
Researchers led by Professor KANG Kisuk of the Center for Nanoparticle Research within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), have announced a major breakthrough in the field of next-generation solid-state batteries. It is believed that their new findings will enable the creation of batteries based on a novel chloride-based solid electrolyte that exhibits exceptional ionic conductivity.
Researchers at Argonne are harnessing the power of machine learning to enhance the safety and efficiency of next-generation nuclear reactors. Using a specialized model, researchers may be able to detect anomalies in reactor operations even when they are masked by other noises, ensuring a safer energy future.
A team led by a University of Illinois chemistry professor recently created copper molecules that can transfer electrons at least an order of magnitude faster than previously reported. Finding faster, more efficient ways to transfer electrons between synthetically made molecules could lead to more efficient energy conversion technology, like solar panels.
Two researchers in the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have won a grant totaling $457,963 to study 3D magnetic reconnection.
Evaporation is happening all around us all the time, from the sweat cooling our bodies to the dew burning off in the morning sun. But science’s understanding of this ubiquitous process may have been missing a piece all this time.
Industry needs better ways to diagnose the batteries that power these devices to ensure their safety, performance and reliability from inception to recycling.
For the first time ever, Argonne researchers demonstrate a semiconductor coating technique for use on the powder form of sulfur-containing, solid battery electrolytes.
In response to a renewed international interest in molten salt reactors, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a novel technique to visualize molten salt intrusion in graphite.
In a ground-breaking first, researchers have fabricated a scalable nanocellulose based aerogel film radiative cooler with strong light scattering ability. These coolers not only show well passive cooling capacity but exhibit superior anti-dust performance for longtime using.
High-efficiency scattering exceptional point (EP) at non-Hermitian metasurface has numerous alluring optical properties but still is unexplored in the visible. Scientists in China and Singapore reported a universal paradigm for achieving a high-efficiency EP in the visible by leveraging interlayer loss to accurately control the interplay between the lossy structure and scattering lightwaves. This work paves a new avenue toward the design of versatile optical metasurface platforms involving the EP or higher-order EP.
Multimode fiber (MMF) lasers can be invaluable for various applications, including high-energy pulse generation, precision measurement, and nonlinear microscopy. They also serve as an outstanding testbed for nonlinear spatiotemporal physics. The generation of ultrashort pulses in nonlinear multimode resonators relies upon spatiotemporal mode-locking (STML), which involves synchronization in both spatial and temporal dimensions. This review focuses on the fundamentals of STML, with a particular emphasis on the dynamics under large intermode dispersion. Recent progresses in spatiotemporal measurement techniques, exotic nonlinear dynamics of spatiotemporal dissipative solitons (STDS), and spatial mode engineering in MMF lasers are covered. We also provide an outlook on future perspectives for STML.
Physicists William Raphael “Raph” Hix of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and John Lajoie, who will join ORNL on Nov. 6 from Iowa State University, have been elected Fellows of the American Physical Society.
Navid Shirzadi uses deep learning models that hybridize existing forecasting models
The incentive to develop an offshore wind farm can diminish with just a five percent reduction in capacity, based on economic considerations," says PhD candidate Eirik Finserås at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen (UiB).
Biological potassium ion channels allow selective permeation of larger K+ (ionic radius of 1.3 Å) over smaller Na+ (1.0 Å) with selectivity ratio over 1000-fold.
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $11.4 million for six projects in quantum information science (QIS) with relevance to fusion and plasma science.
Solar energy is one of the most promising ways to power the world of the future. However, creating more efficient solar cells requires finding new and better materials.
The federal government designated the New Energy New York (NENY) project led by Binghamton University a hub for battery innovation.
An international team of researchers including a team from the Center for the Advancement of Topological Semimetals (CATS), an Energy Frontier Research Center under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science led by Ames National Laboratory, experimentally demonstrated a new type of nonlinear Hall effect.
Researchers at the Beckman Institute will conduct electrochemical reactions in microdroplets to produce clean hydrogen, sequester carbon dioxide, and store renewable energies like wind and solar inexpensively and sustainably. Their project, called DROPLETS, received $4.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science through its Energy Earthshots Initiative.
Polyoxometalate (POM)-based nanohybrids potentially offer a step-change in sustainability across a wide variety of industries, but research into the substances is in its infancy. A group of researchers has produced a comprehensive review of the sector’s progress and challenges yet to be overcome.
Detection of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by interrupted energy transfer
Plant biologists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have engineered enzymes to modify grass plants so their biomass can be more efficiently converted into biofuels and other bioproducts.
Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne National Laboratory, seeks innovators to embed at Argonne and develop their clean energy or climate technologies.
Powered by the Australian sun, the University of Michigan Solar Car Team's Astrum was the fourth challenger-class car to cross the finish line today after five days of racing in the 2023 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge.
Ninety-seven percent of U.S. dams don’t make electricity. A new tool could help tap that resource.
The National Science Foundation has awarded up to $21.4 million for the design of telescopes for CMB-S4, an international experiment that will study the cosmic microwave background and help us understand the beginning, history, and makeup of the universe. Berkeley Lab leads the project for DOE and also plays a lead role in technology development.
LaserNetUS funding will allow scientists to take advantage of the Matter in Extreme Conditions instrument and ultrabright X-rays at the Linac Coherent Light Source to explore fundamental plasma science and inertial fusion energy research and technology.
Researchers develop a compound that can store hydrogen energy at room-temperature for an extended period of time
An ideal radiative cooler requires accurate spectral control capability with high efficiency, stability, and scalability. Flexible cooling films represent a cost-effective solution but lack of accuracy in spectral control. Polymer metasurface with periodically arranged three-dimensional (3D) trench structures made by roll-to-roll printing can provide high-performance radiative cooling. The impressive cooling power and temperature deduction on a clear sky midday have been achieved, promising broad practical applications in energy saving and passive heat dispersion fields.
Drs. SuDong Park, Byungki Ryu, and Jaywan Chung of the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) developed a new thermoelectric efficiency formalism and a high-efficiency multistage thermoelectric power generator module. This innovation can boost nuclear battery performance, crucial for space probes, and has attracted attention from the German Aerospace Research Institute.
As bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have grown in market share, they’ve been criticized for their heavy carbon footprint: Cryptocurrency mining is an energy-intensive endeavor.
Read the latest research news on air pollution, nanoplastics, waterborne illnesses and more in the Pollution channel on Newswise.
With a buoy of Inflation Reduction Act funding, Jefferson Lab is helping design and build a first-of-its-kind collider in New York to learn more about matter at the smallest scale.
Sandia National Laboratories is collaborating with New Mexico-based CSolPower LLC to develop an affordable method of storing energy from renewable sources. The primary goal of the partnership is to transition to zero-carbon solar and wind energy for generating electricity.
DOE’s CyberForce Competition on Nov. 4, led by Argonne National Laboratory, aims to bolster cybersecurity knowledge and skills among students and professionals, addressing critical infrastructure and cyber-physical threats.
It's viable to produce low-cost, lightweight solar panels that can generate energy in space, according to new research.
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