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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 2-Jul-2025 17:10 ET (2-Jul-2025 21:10 GMT/UTC)

Floating solar panels could support US energy goals

DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Federal reservoirs could help meet the country’s solar energy needs, according to a new study published in Solar Energy. For the study, Evan Rosenlieb and Marie Rivers, geospatial scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), as well as Aaron Levine, a senior legal and regulatory analyst at NREL, quantified for the first time exactly how much energy could be generated from floating solar panel projects installed on federally owned or regulated reservoirs. (Developers can find specific details for each reservoir on the website AquaPV.)

Journal: Solar Energy

Geochemist Kevin Rosso appointed a Battelle Fellow

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Geochemist Kevin Rosso earns the highest scientific and leadership honor bestowed by PNNL.

ORNL partnership with EPB tests new method for protecting quantum networks

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory joined forces with EPB of Chattanooga and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to demonstrate the first transmission of an entangled quantum signal using multiple wavelength channels and automatic polarization stabilization over a commercial network with no downtime.

The successful trial of this innovation marks another step toward the eventual creation of a quantum internet that could prove to be more capable and secure than existing networks.

Journal: Optics Express
Funder: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, ORNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development

Unlocking the potential of lithium-sulfur batteries

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Argonne researchers have developed a new class of electrolyte additives for lithium-sulfur batteries, improving battery performance by suppressing the unwanted migration of polysulfide ions and reducing the uneven distribution and occurrence of chemical reactions within the system.

Journal: Joule

Aydin elevated to IEEE senior membership

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Emrullah Aydin, an R&D staff associate in the Vehicle Power Electronics Research group at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elevated to senior member status in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE.

Sujan elected National Academy of Inventors Fellow

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Vivek Sujan, a distinguished R&D scientist in the Applied Research for Mobility Systems group at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named a 2024 National Academy of Inventors, or NAI, Fellow.

Pioneering new tool will spur advances in catalysis

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Catalysts do several surprising things to assist with daily life – from bread making to turning raw materials into fuels more efficiently. Now, SLAC researchers have developed a way to speed up the discovery process for a promising new class of these helpful substances called single atom catalysts.

Journal: Chemistry - Methods
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

SLAC will play a key role in DOE’s new research centers for advancing next-generation microelectronics

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Funded by the Department of Energy, these centers are part of an effort that brings together national laboratories, universities and industry to invent and accelerate novel microelectronics technologies to operate efficiently or in extreme environments.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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