National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) looks ahead: Construction activity

NREL's South Table Mountain campus and National Wind Technology Center will be busy with construction activity for the foreseeable future.     more...

Research and Education at Argonne National Laboratory: special postdoctoral fellowships to be awarded internationally

Argonne offers special postdoctoral fellowships to be awarded internationally on an annual basis to outstanding doctoral scientists and engineers who are at early points in promising careers.     more...

Research and education at Argonne National Laboratory: Career Postdocs Opportunities

Argonne National Laboratory hires top-quality staff who finds personal and professional fulfillment in their work     more...

Argonne National Laboratory Fundamental and Applied Science Achievements: Controlling nanoparticles to receive new energy technology materials

A team of researchers from the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has demonstrated a method that could produce cheaper semiconductor layers for solar cells.     more...

Argonne National Laboratory Fundamental and Applied Science Achievements: Energy Storage Initiative

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Argonne National Laboratory is working in overdrive to develop advanced energy storage technologies to aid the growth of a nascent U.S. battery manufacturing industry     more...

Argonne National Laboratory Fundamental and Applied Science Achievements: Self-assembled "micro-robots"

Alexey Snezhko and Igor Aronson, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, have coaxed "micro-robots" to do their bidding     more...

Argonne National Laboratory fundamental and applied Science Achievements: X-ray lens provides nanomaterials research

A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has developed the new "multilayer Laue lens". This lens focuses high-energy X-rays so tightly     more...

Argonne National Laboratory Fundamental and Applied Science Achievements: From nanoparticles to supraparticles

A new study involving the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has given scientists insight into how tweaking a nanoparticle’s attractive electronic qualities can lead to the creation of ordered uniform “supraparticles.”     more...

Argonne National Laboratory Fundamental and Applied Science Achievements: Magnetism and Superconductivity

Exactly 100 years ago today, physicist Kamerlingh Onnes cooled mercury to 4.2 degrees Kelvin, or -450 Fahrenheit, and discovered that it conducted an electric current perfectly     more...

Argonne National Laboratory fundamental and applied Science Achievements: New fluorescent plastics solar cell technology

For years, scientists have dealt with the problem of trying to increase the efficiency and drive down the cost of solar cells. Now researchers have hit upon a new idea - trying to give the light collected by solar cells     more...