Argonne scientists use AI to identify new materials for carbon capture

Metal-organic framework (MOF) materials can be used in many different applications, from catalysts to energy converters

16-Feb-2024 - GenerativeAItechniques, machine learning and simulations give researchers new opportunities to identify environmentally friendly metal-organic framework materials. Carbon capture is a critical technology in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other industrial facilities. But ...

Machine learning program for games inspires development of groundbreaking scientific tool

New AI tool models in record time the behavior of clusters of nanoparticles

05-May-2022 - We learn new skills by repetition and reinforcement learning. Through trial and error, we repeat actions leading to good outcomes, try to avoid bad outcomes and seek to improve those in between. Researchers are now designing algorithms based on a form of artificial intelligence that uses ...

Causes for defects in 3D printing

Paving way for better results

26-Feb-2019 - Additive manufacturing's promise to revolutionize industry is constrained by a widespread problem: tiny gas pockets in the final product, which can lead to cracks and other failures. New research led by teams from Carnegie Mellon University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne ...

Nickel for thought

Compound shows potential for high-temperature superconductivity

20-Jun-2017 - A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has identified a nickel oxide compound as an unconventional but promising candidate material for high-temperature superconductivity. The team successfully synthesized single crystals of a metallic trilayer ...

High-energy X-rays give industry affordable way to optimize cast iron

09-Dec-2015 - Cast iron can be modified through the manufacturing process to optimize its mechanical and physical properties, such as strength and durability. But the manufacturing process is as much art as science, producing good results yet not capturing cast iron's full potential. Controversy still exists ...

One direction: Researchers grow nanocircuitry with semiconducting graphene nanoribbons

15-Oct-2015 - In a development that could revolutionize electronic ciruitry, a research team from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the surface of a germainum ...

Scientists develop environmentally friendly way to produce propylene oxide using silver nanoclusters

09-Apr-2010 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new class of silver-based catalysts for the production of the industrially useful chemical propylene oxide that is both environmentally friendly and less expensive. “The production of propylene oxide has ...

Argonne scientists prove unconventional superconductivityin new iron arsenide compounds

Inelastic neutron scattering is sensitive to sign of superconducting gap

14-Jan-2009 - Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used inelastic neutron scattering to show that superconductivity in a new family of iron arsenide superconductors cannot be explained by conventional theories. "The normal techniques for revealing unconventional ...

A Boost for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research

29-Jan-2007 - The development of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles is another step closer. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) have identified a new variation of a familiar platinum-nickel alloy that is the ...