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AI discovers new nanostructures
Researchers used artificial intelligence to rapidly discover new self-assembled nanostructures
18-Jan-2023
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have successfully demonstrated that autonomous methods can discover new materials. Theartificial intelligence(AI)-driven technique led to the discovery of three new nanostructures, including a first-of-its-kind ...
X-rays reveal elusive chemistry for better EV batteries
High energy x-rays to investigate the solid-electrolyte interphase, a chemical layer in batteries that's key to stabilizing lithium metal anodes
08-Dec-2022
Researchers around the world are on a mission to relieve a bottleneck in the clean energy revolution:batteries. From electric vehicles to renewable grid-scale energy storage, batteries are at the heart of society’s most crucial green innovations—but they need to pack more energy to make these ...
A radical new approach in synthetic chemistry
Pulse radiolysis experiments help reveal how unpaired electrons at one end of a molecule can initiate chemistry at 'distant' locations
28-Nov-2022
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory helped measure how unpaired electrons in atoms at one end of a molecule can drive chemical reactivity on the molecule’s opposite side. As described in apaperrecently published in theJournal of the American ...
Engineering Duckweed to Produce Oil for Biofuels, Bioproducts
Scientists drive oil accumulation in rapidly growing aquatic plants
14-Oct-2022
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have engineered duckweed to produce high yields of oil. The team added genes to one of nature’s fastest growing aquatic plants to “push” the synthesis of fatty ...
Tuning electrode surfaces to optimize solar fuel production
An electrode material with modified surface atoms generates more electrical current, which drives the sunlight-powered reactions that split water into oxygen and hydrogen
24-Feb-2021
Scientists have demonstrated that modifying the topmost layer of atoms on the surface of electrodes can have a remarkable impact on the activity of solar water splitting. As they reported in Nature Energy on Feb. 18, bismuth vanadate electrodes with more bismuth on the surface (relative to ...
Making high-temperature superconductivity disappear to understand its origin
Scientists have collected evidence suggesting that a purely electronic mechanism causes copper-oxygen compounds to conduct electricity without resistance at temperatures well above absolute zero
06-Feb-2020
When there are several processes going on at once, establishing cause-and-effect relationships is difficult. This scenario holds true for a class of high-temperature superconductors known as the cuprates. Discovered nearly 35 years ago, these copper-oxygen compounds can conduct electricity ...
New function for plant enzyme could lead to green chemistry
Discovery may inspire development of better industrial catalysts
11-Dec-2019
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new function in a plant enzyme that could have implications for the design of new chemical catalysts. The enzyme catalyzes, or initiates, one of the cornerstone chemical reactions needed to synthesize a ...
Cause of cathode degradation identified for nickel-rich materials
Combination of research methods reveals causes of capacity fading, giving better insight to design advanced batteries for electric vehicles
18-Mar-2019
A team of scientists including researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have identified the causes of degradation in a cathode material for lithium-ion batteries, as well as possible remedies. Their findings, ...
Carrying and releasing nanoscale cargo with 'nanowrappers'
Nanocubes for biomedicine, catalysis and beyond
08-Jan-2019
This holiday season, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)--a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory--have wrapped a box of a different kind. Using a one-step chemical synthesis method, they engineered hollow metallic ...
Detecting light in a different dimension
Polymer nanostructures longer than wide make graphene a better light detector
14-Nov-2018
Scientists from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) have dramatically improved the response of graphene to light through self-assembling wire-like nanostructures that conduct electricity. The improvement could pave the way for the development of graphene-based detectors that can quickly ...
