Research Summaries

Green leafy plants readily convert sunlight into energy-dense fuels. Conventional solar cells don’t. Why not? A key reaction, splitting water

Scientists developed a new and robust process that converts components of lignocellulosic biomass into high-performance high-value PSAs that have

When forming bonds with oxygen or participating in reactions involving oxygen atom transfer, the early actinide elements, protactinium through

While scientists have studied water for a long time, there’s still much that they don’t know. A particularly interesting aspect is

As part of a study on carbon cycling in soils, researchers deeply sequenced 60 soil metagenomes across a single grassland meadow at the Angelo

The SPRUCE experiment is applying warming (0 to +9 degrees Celsius above ambient) and carbon dioxide (ambient and elevated) treatments to

This study builds on the team’s previous research, which established clear links between a protein complex that senses sugar levels in plant

All SRF particle accelerators to-date use liquid helium to maintain the extremely cold temperatures necessary for sustaining superconductivity.

Rare earth element-containing materials are irreplaceable and used widely in technologies such as lighting, displays, biological sensors, lasers,

The chemical reactions behind soot particle formation have long been a mystery. The reactions, which turn gaseous hydrocarbons into a solid that