Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the entrepreneurship program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, was founded in 2016 to help startups grow.
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge and Idaho national laboratories announced a collaboration to expand the domestic supply chain of industrial pressure vessels.
Biomanufacturing uses biological systems to produce chemicals or materials. For example, scientists use microbes' ability to ferment alcohol to develop bio-based fuels. In advanced aviation fuels, new formulas could have better performance and efficiency than current ones.
CRAIC Technologies, a global innovator in UV-Visible-NIR microspectroscopy, today announced new technology updates to its 508PV™ Microscope Spectrophotometer, expanding its capabilities for researchers in the life sciences.
Forge Nano Breaks Ground on a major expansion of its lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in Morrisville, North Carolina, as part of its U.S. battery manufacturing platform and in partnership with Samsung SDI.
Researchers developed isosorbide-based plasticizers that made brittle poly(isosorbide carbonate) more flexible while preserving its ability to undergo ammonolysis after use. The resulting degradation products supported plant growth, including in an edible vegetable, highlighting a new way to design plastics with a useful end-of-life function.
A new type of plastic that turns into a gas when heated and reforms into a solid when cooled has been developed by scientists at the University of Surrey, opening up a new approach to processing and recycling polymers.
Biology doesn’t happen at one scale. Molecular interactions unfold in milliseconds and nanometers, while disease-associated change such as in Alzheimer’s spreads across millimeters of brain tissue. Understanding complex biological systems requires scientists to watch both — ideally at the same time and with the same sample.
A prospective life cycle assessment of 37 metals found that net-zero energy technologies will increase mining-related environmental damage, especially from copper, nickel, and aluminum. Even so, the modeled climate benefits of deeper decarbonization outweighed the added metal burden by roughly 400 to 1.
Researchers showed that alkaline cyanide aerosols interacting with six mineral substrates can spontaneously form mineral-organic hybrid materials, with mineral identity and reaction time shaping the resulting nitrogen-rich organic structures. The findings reveal that minerals can actively influence prebiotic molecular complexity while organic coatings can also stabilize or transform the underlyin…
Researchers built a first-principles database of critical magnetic fields for nearly 7,300 electron-phonon superconductors, revealing unexpectedly large numbers of Type-I materials and predicted upper critical fields reaching 66.9 Tesla.
Future fusion power plants aim to recreate the heart of a star here on Earth to power our future energy needs. While the core fusion plasma will burn at hundreds of millions of degrees, the surrounding structural components must handle sudden, punishing heat loads that rival the extreme temperatures faced by spacecraft upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere.
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated ("Teledyne") and Varex Imaging Corporation ("Varex") jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Teledyne will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Varex for $18.90 per share payable in cash.
The United States has substantial rare earth resources and could sharply expand domestic production through new mining, separation, and recycling projects. However, limited refining and metal-production capacity remains a major bottleneck to building a fully integrated rare earth supply chain.
