Research Summaries

Previous investigations of colloids energized by magnetic fields revealed that they are a form of “active matter”—assemblies of

Cage-like metallic compounds called clathrates have the potential to be used as thermoelectric materials for harvesting waste heat and turning it

Catalysts—specialized chemicals that make catalytic converters function and control a host of chemical processes in industry—are used

Researchers developed a new class of porous materials that have the potential to combine the best properties of inorganic solids and flexible,

In this research, scientists used molecular beam epitaxy to deposit precisely determined quantities of iron (Fe), chromium (Cr) and oxygen (O)

While sifting through metagenomic sequence datasets for a U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Community Science Program project,

Brachypodium distachyon is a small, rapidly growing grass that serves as a model for candidate bioenergy grasses such as Miscanthus

Despite interest in how climate warming affects ecological processes, remarkably little is known about whether similar types of ecosystems respond

Many Arctic clouds are mixed phase. Correctly predicting the partitioning of mass and transitions between these two phases is vital for

Gaps or broken trees, known as windthrows, are a common form of tree mortality in Amazonia. Windthrows affect forest dynamics and carbon storage,