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Argonne X-ray Scientist Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Argonne X-ray Scientist Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

January 11, 2012 - (0) comments

Argonne X-ray scientist Chris Jacobsen has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Jacobsen is an associate division director at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source for Imaging and Microscopy in the X-ray [...]

OSTP Releases Federal STEM Investment Inventory

OSTP Releases Federal STEM Investment Inventory

January 11, 2012 - (0) comments

Greetings from D.C.  U.S. federal agencies have a total budgetary commitment of approximately $3.4 billion in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education initiatives across 252 distinct “investment” efforts.  These efforts are categorized and [...]

Making Molecular Hydrogen More Efficiently

Making Molecular Hydrogen More Efficiently

January 11, 2012 - (0) comments

When it comes to the industrial production of chemicals, often the most indispensable element is one that you can’t see, smell, or even taste. It’s hydrogen, the lightest element of all. Researchers at the [...]

Universal Electrochromic Smart Window Coating

Universal Electrochromic Smart Window Coating

January 11, 2012 - (0) comments

Delia Milliron and colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have developed an electrochromic nanocomposite material to dynamically control heat and light through windows depending on comfort demands and environmental fluctuations. Specifically, the technology modulates [...]

SSC Pacific’s Sea Water Antenna System Conserves Real Estate

SSC Pacific’s Sea Water Antenna System Conserves Real Estate

January 11, 2012 - (0) comments

SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) seeks to commercialize a system for a sea water antenna through patent licensing and collaborative commercial partnerships.  The device uses varying heights of sea water streams as antenna [...]

Rapier Ship Detection System

Rapier Ship Detection System

January 11, 2012 - (0) comments

SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) seeks to commercialize a software program that automatically detects ships from high-resolution commercial overhead imagery and quickly outputs the results in various user-friendly formats.  The RAPid Image Exploitation [...]

E. Coli Bacteria Engineered to Eat Switchgrass and Make Transportation Fuels

E. Coli Bacteria Engineered to Eat Switchgrass and Make Transportation Fuels

January 11, 2012 - (0) comments

A milestone has been reached on the road to developing advanced biofuels that can replace gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels with a domestically produced clean, green, renewable alternative. Researchers with the U.S. Department of [...]

Rotatable Scanning Probe Microscopy Head

Rotatable Scanning Probe Microscopy Head

January 11, 2012 - (0) comments

SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) seeks commercial partners for licensing or collaborative agreements for its rotatable multi-cantilever scanning probe microscopy head, which consolidates several scanning probe tips into a rotating array.  There are [...]

Hans Christen elected Fellow of American Physical Society

Hans Christen elected Fellow of American Physical Society

January 11, 2012 - (0) comments

Hans Christen of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Christen, a distinguished research staff member and group leader [...]

Nanocrystals Go Bare: Berkeley Lab Researchers Strip Material’s Tiny Tethers

Nanocrystals Go Bare: Berkeley Lab Researchers Strip Material’s Tiny Tethers

January 11, 2012 - (0) comments

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a universal technique for stripping nanocrystals of tether-like molecules that until now have posed as obstacles for their [...]

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