tech2018-07-17
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it will award 95 grants totaling $95 million to 80 small businesses in 26 states. Funded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, today’s selections are for Phase II researc....Read more
tech2018-07-17
Berkeley researcher calculates molecules’ electronic structures, hoping to hasten development of new materials, designer drugs and other applications. Source: DOE (science.energy.gov) ....Read more
tech2018-07-17
For the second time, the U.S. Department of Energy renewed funding for a center designed to explore fundamental scientific principles that underpin technologies such as solar energy and fuel cells. Source: DOE (science.energy.gov) ....Read more
tech2018-07-16
The ability to perfectly control the process of laying thin films of material onto the surface of an inexpensive metal may be all it takes to produce more efficient and cheaper particle accelerators for a wide range of applications. Valente-Feliciano, an accelerator physicist at Jefferson Lab, has b....Read more
tech2018-07-13
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have been working for years to replace oil with solid lubricants such as graphene, which is a cheaper and more efficient substitute, one that lasts significantly longer. Source: DOE (science.energy.gov) ....Read more
tech2018-07-13
This year’s annual accelerator shutdown at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is maintenance-driven: to finish the second half of an upgrade to the linear accelerator, change out a target, add components to improve beamline diagnostics, modify vacuum systems and replace and repair magnets. Sou....Read more
tech2018-07-12
Approximately 250 students and professors from science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs at universities in 33 U.S. states arrived at Brookhaven Lab on June 4. Hosted by the Lab's Office of Educational Programs, the participants are now with mentors "in the field"—some in labs and....Read more
tech2018-07-11
When Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) fusion facility set a world record for stellarators recently, a finely tuned instrument built and delivered by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) proved the achievement. The record strongly suggests that the desi....Read more
tech2018-07-11
Zili Wu of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory grew up on a farm in China’s heartland. He chose to leave it to catalyze a career in chemistry. Today Wu leads ORNL’s Surface Chemistry and Catalysis group and conducts research at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, ....Read more
tech2018-07-10
Schuman is a neuromorphic computing researcher on ORNL’s Nature Inspired Machine Learning Team, where she works to figure out what makes the human brain so powerful and how to leverage the theory of biologically inspired computing into practice. Source: DOE (science.energy.gov) ....Read more
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