Sentences with phrase «national laboratory discovered»

One sentence summary: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered that on large palladium particles, the abundance of active hydrogen atoms promotes the formation of methane from carbon dioxide, but on the smaller particles, less hydrogen is available and the reaction produces carbon monoxide.

The Argonne National Laboratory discovered that while metal fuel grows under use, it grows a certain amount, and then stops growing.

In one sentence: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered transient species and reaction pathways in a common electrochemical system interface using liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry and a vacuum - compatible electrochemical microfluidic reactor.

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered cobalt and nickel complexes that activate hydrogen enabling the spent fuel to be recycled.

Results: In an unprecedented find, a research team including scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered that the three electronic and electrochemical properties having to do with the energy necessary for electrons and molecules to assemble or break apart are not always correlated.

Not exact matches

Over lunch in the staff cafeteria, theoretician John Ellis explains that this idea has already fallen out of fashion, mainly because that theory supposed to be a quark - gluon plasma smooth, disconnected gas, but earlier this year, physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory caught a glimpse of the quark - gluon plasma and discovered that it looks much more like a thick, viscous liquid.

The first conclusive evidence of such a violation was finally discovered late last year by collaborators on an experiment named BaBar at Stanford University's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

It may not seem like a material as thin as an atom could hide any surprises, but a research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) discovered an unexpected magnetic property in a two - dimensional material.

So in 1999, it was with much fanfare that Kenneth Gregorich, a nuclear chemist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and his colleagues announced that they had discovered two new elements not in the table.

Scientists at the U.S Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have discovered a new way to generate very low - resistance electric current in a new class of materials.

Now, a large team of astronomers led by Charles Alcock of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, has used the Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile to study a microlens that was discovered in 1993.

Joint research by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory has discovered a way to predict the emerging structures and bulk properties of new materials of this kind as they are crafted from variations of existing recipes.

In a paper published online this month in Nano Letters, the Penn State team and colleagues from UT Dallas, the Naval Research Laboratory, Sandia National Lab, and labs in Taiwan and Saudi Arabia, discovered that the tungsten diselenide layer grew in perfectly aligned triangular islands 1 - 3 microns in size that slowly coalesced into a single crystal up to 1 centimeter square.

In February the world was treated to a transcontinental eureka moment: Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russia announced they had discovered two new chemical elements.

The chemical mechanism, discovered by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, could also broaden our understanding of basic chemical reaction processes involving common helpers, called catalysts, like copper and gold.

In October Raymond Davis Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania and Brookhaven National Laboratory shared a Nobel Prize for detecting solar neutrinos and discovering that the sun emits far fewer than expected of these ghostly subatomic particles — a finding that exposed a serious flaw in our understanding of fundamental natural laws.

This, after discovering nearly 5,000 supernovae in the last two decades,» said Peter Nugent, Senior Scientist and Division Deputy for Science Engagement in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who co-authored the study.

At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a team discovered that fixing broken bonds deep inside the material stabilized the catalyst and let it thrive in hot water.

Supported by National Institutes of Health grants, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the University of Tennessee (UT), and the UT — ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS) discovered a molecular «switch» in a receptor that controls cell behavior using detailed molecular dynamics simulations on a computer called Anton built by D. E. Shaw Research in New York City.

Scientists studying plant biochemistry at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered new details about biomolecules that put the brakes on oil production.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have discovered that as plants develop they craft their root microbiome, favoring microbes that consume very specific metabolites.

Jan. 3, 2018 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have discovered novel ways to extend the capabilities of two - photon lithography (TPL), a high - resolution 3D printing technique capable of producing nanoscale features smaller than one - hundredth the width of a human hair.

Now a group led by scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Northwestern University has reported a shortcut for discovering and improving metallic glass — and, by extension, other elusive materials — at a fraction of the time and cost.

An international team of scientists ---- including several researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory ---- has discovered an anode battery material with superfast charging and stable operation over many thousands of cycles.

In one sentence: Using computer simulations, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's scientists discovered that carbon sequestering minerals can form without water - slurping carbonic acid; rather, a water layer forms on a mineral's surface, leaves atomic voids that carbon dioxide fills, and mineralizes in minutes.

Now Dr. Xue - Bin Wang at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is bringing ions and molecules together in clusters to better discover their properties and predict their behavior.

«The integration of complex genomic data sets enabled us to discover an intricate array of genomic changes and validate one specific change that occurs in the vast majority of all ovarian cancers,» said lead author Paul T. Spellman, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif. «Significantly, we have also found new information regarding the role that the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes play in determining survival.»

A recent study, conducted by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and published in the journal Nature Communications, discovered a link between diminishing Arctic sea ice and the buildup of high ridges of atmospheric pressure over the North Pacific.