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(U.S. Department of Energy)  Removing CO2 from the Atmosphere will Help America Achieve Net-Zero Emissions, Create Jobs —  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today (March 5, 2021) announced up to $24 million for research into technology that captures carbon emissions directly from the air, replicating the way plants and trees absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). This technology, known as direct air capture, has the potential to create good-paying jobs, advance America’s fight against climate ch...

DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers Support QIS Research to Advance Energy, Economic, and National Security DOE/US Department of Energy WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced plans to provide $30 million for Quantum Information Science (QIS) research that helps scientists understand how nature works on an extremely small scale--100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. QIS can help our nation solve some of the most pressing and complex challenge...

DOE to award up to $24M to advance direct air carbon capture technology 2. (DE-FOA-0002481) 2 from ambient air, this FOA also considers the removal of CO 2 from partially concentrated air (e.g., building HVAC exhaust) and from natural fluids (e.g., the ocean and surface waters) that received their CO 2 directly from ambient air. DOE is seeking innovative fundamental research in three topical areas: Novel Energy Transfer Mechanisms for Regeneration of and Mass Transport in Direct Air Capture Sy...

Two of the three research studies -- led by Jacqueline Douglass, M.D., Ph.D. candidate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Emily Han-Chung Hsiue, M.D., Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins--report on a precision medicine immunotherapy approach that specifically kills cancer cells by targeting mutant protein fragments presented as antigens on the cancer cell surface. Although common across cancer types, p53 mutations have not been successfully targeted with drugs. Genet...

Researchers report advance in quantum processing By: Richard C. Lewis  |  2021.02.24  |  06:20 pm Diamonds have been admired for their beauty, but they may have an even more practical application. A team of theoretical physicists, led by the University of Iowa, report that diamonds may be used to speed up computer search algorithms, decode encrypted messages, or provide highly-secure communications by manipulating information at the quantum level—the microscopic world inhabited by at...

B, E) C-ω curves of the Si diode (B), perovskite thin single crystal (C), and perovskite thin film solar cell (E) measured at difference dc biases. The dashed lines show the calculated C D and F) SCASP-simulated C-ω curves of a trap-free perovskite thin single crystal (D) and a perovskite thin film solar cell (F). Nonetheless, even under the framework in which carrier density and profile distance directly from CV measurement are used to represent those from DLCP measurement, the followin...

By kmcwalsh on October 3, 2011. The following guest post was written by Wei-Qiang Han, a materials scientist working at Brookhaven Labs Center for Functional Nanomaterials. Wei-Qiang Han With gasoline prices still hovering near $4 per gallon, scientists at Brookhaven Labs Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) are helping to develop electric vehicles capable of driving hundreds of miles on a single charge. A new compound of five tin atoms and one iron atom (FeSn 5) created a...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to invest $25 million in fundamental science to lay the groundwork for technology that finds reuses for plastic waste, makes strides toward addressing the global plastic waste crisis, and reduces the climate impacts of plastic production.

Better understanding plastics underlying chemistry may revolutionize how we use these ubiquitous materials DOE/US Department of Energy Too much natural gas. A small adjustment to an experiment. These ingredients came together to produce one of the most influential materials ever invented. Researchers at Berkeley Labs Molecular Foundry user facility developed a polymer that they can break down and recreate. It could lead to cyclical plastics that can be recycled over and over again. Image court...

Scientists tame photon-magnon interaction. Tuned photon-magnon interactions. The team’s device is in the center. Arrow indicates direction of spin excitation for magnons. The purplish shroud represents reflectance measurements. The separated darker lines on each side that intersect at the top indicate tunable strong photon-magnon coupling. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.) Working with theorists in the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, researchers in th...