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Jenny Yang, Sarah Finkeldei, and Shane Ardo will explore new technologies for energy conversion, carbon capture and nuclear power.

UChicago is part of a team of academic & community leaders in a $25M project to build resilience by studying local climate change effects.

The researchers found that irregularities between grains in the battery can accelerate failure by moving ions faster to one region over another.

The grant is part of a DOE initiative over the next four years to help meet President Biden’s goal of reaching a net-zero emissions economy by 2050.

Piping – that self-assembles, self-repairs, and can connect itself to different biostructures – is a step toward creating a nanotube network.

Research shows that spinning quasiparticles, or magnons, light up when paired with a light-emitting quasiparticle, or exciton.

On-chip laser frequency combs — lasers that emit multiple frequencies simultaneously separated like the tooth on a comb — are a promising technology.

The team concluded that a metal-containing protein known as cytochrome OmcS — which makes up bacterial nanowires — acts as a natural photoconductor.

Award is part of an initiative to invest in clean energy technologies & low-carbon manufacturing to help the U.S. achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

The LSU electrical & computer engineering professor has been appointed to serve as a member of DOE's Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee.