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Argonne receives U.S. Department of Energy funding for four next-generation clean-energy projects

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Grant and Award Announcement

Argonne clean-energy projects are funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Projects build on Argonne’s leading role in decarbonizing the U.S. economy.

Smart diagnostics: How Argonne could use Generative AI to empower nuclear plant operators

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Reports and Proceedings

In a new conference paper, Argonne engineers test advanced AI to see if it could help nuclear power plant operators understand and fix problems more easily.

Researchers discover faster, more energy-efficient way to manufacture an industrially important chemical

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

The reactivity of zirconium on silicon nitride enhances the conversion of propane into propylene, a key commodity chemical needed to make polypropylene. This finding hints at the reactivity researchers might achieve with other nontraditional catalysts.

Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society

Argonne-led research working toward reducing electronic waste with biodegradable luminescent polymers

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Argonne-led research working toward reducing electronic waste with biodegradable luminescent polymers with high light-emitting efficiencies.

Journal: Nature Sustainability

Scientists develop new artificial intelligence method to create material ‘fingerprints’

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Advanced Photon Source and Center for Nanoscale Materials of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new technique that pairs artificial intelligence and X-ray science.

Journal: Nature

Entrepreneurship program at Argonne announces newest cohort of embedded startup founders

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Business Announcement

Five new innovators will join Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne, and develop their startup technologies as part of the elite program’s eighth cohort.

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