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27-Aug-2024

NREL advances method for recyclable wind turbine blades

DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) see a realistic path forward to the manufacture of bio-derivable wind blades that can be chemically recycled and the components reused, ending the practice of old blades winding up in landfills at the end of their useful life.

Journal: Science

27-Aug-2024

Work toward a cleaner way to purify critical metals

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Over the past three years, a team of researchers from Sandia National Laboratories has been pioneering an environmentally friendly method to separate critical rare-earth elements from watery mixtures.

Journal: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

27-Aug-2024

Bubbling, frothing and sloshing: Long-hypothesized plasma instabilities finally observed

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

PPPL scientists have observed new details of how plasma interacts with magnetic fields, potentially providing insight into the formation of enormous plasma jets that stretch between the stars.

Journal: Physical Review Research
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, DOE/US Department of Energy

26-Aug-2024

LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Reports and Proceedings

New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe’s invisible mass.

Meeting: TeV Particle Astrophysics 2024

26-Aug-2024

Lighting the way for quantum innovation

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University, two research powerhouses, are collaborating to push the boundaries of quantum technology and transform large-scale optical systems into compact integrated microsystems.

23-Aug-2024

Battelle names Anibal Boscoboinik 'Inventor of the Year'

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Anibal Boscoboinik, a materials scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been named an “Inventor of the Year” by Battelle Memorial Institute for his work on noble gas trapping technology with applications in industry and environmental health.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

22-Aug-2024

Department of Energy announces $36 million to support energy-relevant research in underrepresented regions of America

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

Ensuring that scientific funding goes to states and territories that have typically received smaller fractions of federal research dollars in the past, the Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $36 million in funding for 39 research projects in 19 states via the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). The grants connect innovative ideas from scientists at eligible institutions with leading-edge capabilities at the DOE national laboratories.

22-Aug-2024

Argonne scientists awarded American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Automotive Engineers fellowships

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of Automotive Engineers awards fellowships to two Argonne scientists.