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 E-Mail IMAGE: Pictorial representation of joint experimental and computational study of materials. The study utilized the Advanced Photon Source (upper panel) and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (lower panel). The team addressed the... view more  Credit: Emmanuel Gygi, University of California, San Diego Computer simulations hold tremendous promise to accelerate the molecular engineering of green energy technologies, such as new systems for electrical energy storage and solar e...

SPIE, The International Society for Optics and Photonics, Announces Its 2021 Society Awards Written by AZoOpticsJan 13 2021 The Awards Committee of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, today announced the recipients of its prestigious annual awards. Honoring transformative advancements in multiple areas — including medicine, astronomy, lithography, optical metrology, and community-focused achievements — the Societys awards recognize technical accomplishments as well a...

SPIE announces its 2021 society awards 13 Jan 2021 21 recipients represent achievements across wide range of light-based sciences and key advances made with these technologies. optics.org, has announced the recipients of its prestigious annual awards. Honoring transformative advancements in multiple areas — including medicine, astronomy, lithography, optical metrology, and community-focused achievements — the Societys awards recognize technical accomplishments as well as committed s...

 E-Mail Irvine, Calif., Jan. 11, 2021 - Often admired for their flawless appearance to the naked eye, crystals can have defects at the nanometer scale, and these imperfections may affect the thermal and heat transport properties of crystalline materials used in a variety of high-technology devices. Employing newly developed electron microscopy techniques, researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have, for the first time, measured the spectra of phonons - quant...

 E-Mail IMAGE: An illustration of the chain-reaction process that underlies the photon avalanching mechanism Columbia Engineering researchers have realized in their nanoparticles. In this process, the absorption of a single low-energy photon... view more  Credit: Miko?aj ?ukaszewicz/ Polish Academy of Sciences New York, NY--January 13, 2021--Researchers at Columbia Engineering report today that they have developed the first nanomaterial that demonstrates "photon avalanching," a proces...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Tuned photon-magnon interactions. The teams 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... view more  Credit: Argonne National Laboratory. Scientists tame photon-magnon interaction. Working with theorists in the University of Chicagos Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, researchers in the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Argonne National...

170 Grants Will Support Innovation and Job Creation WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of 170 grants totaling $37

Date Time Insights Through Atomic Simulation A recent special issue in The Journal of Chemical Physics highlights Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) contributions to developing two prominent open-source software packages for computational chemistry used by scientists around the world. PNNL researchers have been instrumental in developing the software packages, called NWChem and CP2K. These programs offer complementary approaches to calculating electronic structure, which is fundam...

Rice Scientists Make Hybrid Particles by Coupling Gold Nanoparticles with Soft Polymers Written by AZoNanoDec 23 2020 Bigger is not always better, but heres something that starts small and gets better as it gets bigger. Just light it up and see. A team led by Rice University chemists Christy Landes and Stephan Link, both associated with the Smalley-Curl Institute, have made hybrid particles that combine the unbeatable light-harvesting properties of plasmonic nanoparticles with the flexibility o...

Rice scientists show how coated nanoantennas retain energy to potentially catalyze chemical reactions Bigger is not always better, but here’s something that starts small and gets better as it gets bigger. Just light it up and see. A team led by Rice University chemists Christy Landes and Stephan Link, both associated with the Smalley-Curl Institute, have made hybrid particles that combine the unbeatable light-harvesting properties of plasmonic nanoparticles with the flexibility of catalytic p...