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30-Apr-2024

Making more batteries with fewer materials

Argonne National Laboratory is working with Talon Metals to develop a process that could dramatically increase the number of electric vehicle batteries produced from mined nickel ore.

30-Apr-2024

New instrument could help scientists tailor plasma to produce more fusion heat

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Scientists at PPPL have finished building a new plasma measurement instrument that could aid efforts to boost the heat of fusion reactions in facilities known as tokamaks.

30-Apr-2024

Adaptable IO System delivers data for high-performance computing science at ORNL

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Since its initial development in 2008 at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the open-source Adaptable IO System framework has become an essential tool for high-performance computing, or HPC, simulations around the world with an ever-evolving array of features and users.

Funder: Advanced Scientific Computing Research

30-Apr-2024

A new paradigm for battery recycling

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne and Toyota are collaborating on a cutting-edge battery recycling process that retains the structure of valuable components. It shows great promise to make battery recycling much more environmentally friendly and profitable.

29-Apr-2024

How artificial intelligence can transform U.S. energy infrastructure

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

A groundbreaking report from the DOE’s national laboratories provides an ambitious framework for using artificial intelligence to accelerate U.S. clean energy deployment in the face of climate change.

29-Apr-2024

Better Plants program leads to carbon reduction, cost savings for US manufacturing

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Helping hundreds of manufacturing industries across the United States increase energy efficiency requires a balance of teaching and training, blended with scientific guidance and technical expertise. It’s a formula for success that researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been providing to the Department of Energy’s Better Plants program for more than a decade.

26-Apr-2024

Scientists are shaking up lithium extraction with a different kind of chemistry

DOE/Ames National Laboratory

Scientists at the Critical Materials Innovation (CMI) Hub, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory have developed a new process, mechanochemical extraction of lithium at low temperatures, or MELLT, to increase and diversify the supply of lithium in the United States.

25-Apr-2024

Argonne plays critical role in consortium to advance fuel cell and electrolyzer manufacturing

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Improving the manufacturing of green hydrogen technologies is key to wide-spread industry adoption. Argonne is part of a consortium dedicated to scaling up, accelerating production and reducing the cost of producing hydrogen fuel cells and electrolyzers.

25-Apr-2024

Unconventional technology enhances composites important to automotive, aerospace and renewable energy industries

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that demonstrates how fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials used in the automotive, aerospace and renewable energy industries can be made stronger and tougher to better withstand mechanical or structural stresses over time.

Journal: Advanced Science

24-Apr-2024

Five facilities at Argonne where climate solutions are front and center

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Learn more about five research centers at Argonne National Laboratory that help researchers bring climate science from the lab to the world.