Simulation shows the pairing of silicon and carbon vacancies into a divacancy in silicon carbide. Red shows void volumes at defect sites. Upper left: qubit.…
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The IMCA-CAT beamline at the Advanced Photon Source, where work was done to determine the structure of Pfizer’s new COVID-19 antiviral treatment candidate. Credit: Image…
Rice University graduate student Wenbin Li prepares a 2D perovskite solar cell for testing in a solar simulator. Rice engineers boosted the efficiency of cells…
Superionic water is found in ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Credit: LLNL Using the Advanced Photon Source, scientists have recreated the structure of ice formed…
Direct recycling is the least energy-intensive method of recycling a lithium-ion battery. Credit: ReCell Center How do we make battery recycling cost effective? Scientists at…
Experiments will give scientists a closer look at how exploding stars create world’s heaviest elements. How do the chemical elements, the building blocks of our…
Unplanned discovery could lead to future pivotal discoveries in batteries, fuel cells, devices for converting heat to electricity and more. Scientists normally conduct their research…
Researchers at Argonne have demonstrated an on-chip quantum circuit and realized strong coupling between a superconducting resonator and a magnetic device. This earlier research introduced…
Masitinib, an existing drug used to treat tumors in animals, may be an effective treatment against many types of coronaviruses, including the one that causes…
Ultrafast electron microscope in Argonne’s Center for Nanoscale Materials. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Ultrafast electron microscope opens up new avenues for the development of sensors…
Argonne-driven technology is part of a broad initiative to answer fundamental questions about the birth of matter in the universe and the building blocks that…
New method for information processing: The coherent information exchange (black undulating lines) between magnons (shaded red area) and microwave photons (shaded blue area) is controlled…
3D model of Taspase1, illustrating the two halves of the active enzyme. Credit: Image by Jose M. Martin-Garcia Using Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source,…
Frog eggs like those pictured here release zinc when fertilized, much like mammalian eggs do. Credit: Image by Tero Laakso/licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Scientists…
Llamas naturally generate antibodies that are smaller than those of humans—and easy for scientists to manipulate. Antibodies drawn from llamas named Winter (center, looking left)…
Artist’s conception of polar vortices moving in ferroelectric material. These small groupings of atoms must be excited with high-frequency electric fields to move, but studying…
Graphical representation of the proton. The large spheres represent the three valence quarks, the small spheres represent the other quarks that make up the proton,…
Visualization of the Last Journey simulation. Shown is the large-scale structure of the universe as a thin slice through the full simulation (lower left) and…
This half-meter-long prototype of a niobium-tin superconducting undulator magnet was designed and built by a team from three U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories. The…