From the Blog

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 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) today released its EM Program Plan, a 2022 priority outlining a decision roadmap the cleanup program will use as a guide over the next two decades.

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.

Meet Laura Fornicola, who leads #NNSA engagements with our nuclear security partners in the United Kingdom, ensuring stability for our nation and our allies. Laura helped grow a two-person team into the Office of International Programs.

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.