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By kmcwalsh on October 3, 2011. The following guest post was written by Wei-Qiang Han, a materials scientist working at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials. Wei-Qiang Han With gasoline prices still hovering near $4 per gallon, scientists at Brookhaven Lab's 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 at the CFN is another development along the road to higher capacity lithium-ion batteries for those...

(Brookhaven National Laboratory/EurekAlert!)  Research solves longstanding problem and opens path for growing crops to produce industrially important high-value fatty acids — Hundreds of naturally occurring specialty fatty acids (building blocks of oils) have potential for use as raw materials for making lubricants, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and more–if they could be produced at large scale by crop plants. But attempts to put genes for making these specialty building blocks into crops have had the opposite effect: Seeds from plants with genes added to make specialty fatty acids accumul...

share: Study Reveals Platinum's Role in Clean Fuel Conversion Identifying specific platinum atoms activated in a water gas shift reaction catalyst could guide the design of less costly efficient catalysts February 10, 2021 Lead author Yuanyuan Li, a research scientist at Stony Brook University's Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Department who has a guest appointment in Brookhaven Lab's Chemistry Division, performs an analysis on a sample using an infrared spectrometer. UPTON, NY—Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University ...

Istvan Dioszegi in 2014. Istvan Dioszegi, a physicist in Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Nonproliferation & National Security (NNS) Department, died on Sept. 29, 2018. He was 64. Dioszegi was active in experimental nuclear physics for more than three decades. “One of the things I was most impressed by was the fact that he had to check everything,” said retired NNS physicist Peter Vanier. “He didn’t take anything at face value. Anything that anybody claimed, he’d go and check it himself and make sure that he believed in it. I think that’s a mark of a good scientist.” This tend...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Biochemist Xiao-Hong Yu's research on specialty fatty acid production in plants got a boost from collaborating with colleagues studying an off-switch that regulates ordinary fatty acid synthesis. view more  Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY - Hundreds of naturally occurring specialty fatty acids (building blocks of oils) have potential for use as raw materials for making lubricants, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and more--if they could be produced at large scale by crop plants. But attempts to put genes for making these specialty building blocks into crops...