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Scientists have discovered that nanoparticles of gold act unusually when close to the edge of a one-atom thick sheet of carbon, called graphene. This could have big implications for the development of new sensors and quantum devices.

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)and Hewlett Packard Enterprise  have unveiled a testbed supercomputer to prepare criti

June 9, 2021 -- Understanding the physical behavior inside an operating nuclear reactor can be done only with simulations on a supercomputer due to the

Six Argonne scientists receive Department of Energys Early Career Research Program Awards.

Lasers, Levitation and Machine Learning Make Better Heat-Resistant Materials Argonne scientists across several disciplines have combined forces to create a new process for testing and predicting the effects of high temperatures on refractory oxides. Cast iron melts at around 1,200 degrees Celsius. Stainless steel melts at around 1,520 degrees Celsius. If you want to shape these materials into everyday objects, like the skillet ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Illustration of the aerodynamic levitation process for studying refractory oxides at their melting points at the APS. A small bead of material is buoyed by gas and heated up by... view more  Credit: (Image by Ganesh Sivaraman/Argonne National Laboratory.) Argonne scientists across several disciplines have combined forces to create a new process for testing and predicting the effects of high temperatures on refractory oxides. Cast iron melts at around 1,200 degrees Cel...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Argonne researchers used supercomputers to optimize the design of piston bowls in heavy-duty engines for Caterpillar Inc. The top designs reduced fuel consumption and soot formation, and others had potential... view more  Credit: (Image by Chao Xu/Argonne National Laboratory.) Argonne is helping Caterpillar improve efficiency and reduce emissions in their heavy-duty diesel engines. Heavy-duty diesel engines still power most large vehicles used in the construction, minin...

 E-Mail IMAGE: (Left) Through neutron scattering experiments, scientists observed distinct patterns of magnetic correlations in superconducting ( "single-stripe magnetism ") and nonsuperconducting ( "double-stripe magnetism ") samples of a compound containing iron (Fe), tellurium (Te), and... view more  Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Scientists characterized how the electronic states in a compound containing iron, tellurium, and selenium depend on local chemical con...

 E-Mail Credit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati Researchers at the University of Cincinnati say a regulatory protein found in skeletal muscle fiber may play an important role in the bodys fight or flight response when encountering stressful situations. The protein, fast skeletal myosin binding protein-C (fMyBP-C), plays a foundational role in the proper regulation of contractile structure and function in the bodys fast twitch muscles -- these muscles produce sudden bursts of power to s...

share: Mapping Performance Variations to See How Lithium-Metal Batteries Fail Using high-energy x-rays, scientists probed different points across a high-energy-density lithium-metal battery—of interest for long-range electric vehicles—and used the data to identify the main failure mechanism April 19, 2021 Brookhaven Lab chemist and Stony Brook University (SBU) professor Peter Khalifah (middle) with SBU graduate students Zhuo Li (left) and Gerard Mattei (right) holding a "pouch cell" battery...