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For nuclear physics research, thin film isotopic specialty targets are often requested for the use and in charged-particle-induced experiments. There are also tens of radioisotopes that are of interest for medical imaging, industrial and R&D uses. The targets of interest include B, O, Si, and Cr; isotopes of refractory metals, such as Re, Os, Ir are good examples. However, many of the isotopes can ...

Ethylene demand is expected to increase by 50% domestically and worldwide over the next 5 years. Much of this and future growth is likely to be met from shale gas based ethane. Dr. Anne Gaffney of the US-DOE has invented a mixed metal oxide catalyst, M1, for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane (C2- ODH) to ethylene at high conversions and very high selectivities. A major hurdle for commercial ...

Synchrotron-based science has had a great scientific impact and will continue to have great impact going forward. In spite of the large investment in the 3rd generation light sources, most beam lines do not preserve the source’s phase profile or brightness all the way to the sample. For these high brightness light sources, errors are almost completely due to distortion ...

There exists a need to obtain near-real-time information in a wireless tool configuration to be used in dynamic geothermal well conditions, such as when drilling is in progress. A tool which can provide this near real-time information from sensors located near the bit of the drill string will help reduce the hazards and costs associated with geothermal well development by allow ...

There is an urgent need to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from coal burning power plants. Current CO2 capture technologies are too expensive and not economically viable. A new technology that can capture ~90% of the CO2 and significantly reduce the cost of capture is required for commercial viability. This project is aimed at the development of an advanced algae technology that can enable 90% ...

Advances in sensors, experimental instrumentation, and computational technologies provide new opportunities for applied research and development in academia and industry. These same advances dramatic increase the volume, velocity, and variety, the three V’s of Big Data, in experimental data; and concurrently increases in the scale of computational resources required for processing this data. App ...

Accelerating the discovery, development and manufacturing of new advanced materials and novel chemical products “twice as fast at a fraction of the cost,” as outlined by the Materials Genome Initiative supported by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Basic Energy Sciences Program, requires a revolution in scientific knowledge discovery in chemical and materials sciences. This goal can only be a ...

Electric vehicles are creating unprecedented demand for lithium. Most lithium is produced from brine resources. Conventional methods for extracting lithium from brines suffer from low lithium recovery and cannot access the expanded resources needed for mass adoption of electric vehicles. The Department of Energy has supported a great variety of projects relate ...

One of the main roadblocks to higher efficiencies for warm-white LED light sources is spectrally-wide red-emitting bulk phosphors, which emit a significant amount of their energy either in the far red or infrared where the eye’s response is poor or zero. Consequently, employing those phosphors (along with bulk green-yellow emitting ones) will result in desired warmer light sources, however, at ...

SiC is an excellent material for fusion reactor environments, including first wall plasma facing materials and breeder-blanket modules. It is also being considered as structural elements in Small Modular Advanced High-Temperature Reactor (SmAHTR) because of its low-activation, temperature resistance, and radiation damage tolerance compared to most materials. The challenge is in joining the S ...