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Scientists at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), devised a method to improve perovskite solar cells, making them more efficient and reliable wi...

A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a novel way to produce two-dimensional nanosheets by separating bulk materials with nontoxic liquid nitrogen. The environmentally friendly process gene...

After more than two years of planning and construction, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has commissioned a major new facility to explore ways to optimize plasma for the production of nanoparticles.

Argonne National Laboratory has launched a new innovation incubator called Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) that will provide $4.4 million in funds to energy and physical science startups.

In an advance that helps pave the way for next-generation electronics and computing technologies—and possibly paper-thin gadgets—scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed a way ...

Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a possible secret to dramatically boosting the efficiency of perovskite solar cells hidden in the nanoscale peaks and valleys of the cryst...

WASHINGTON –The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced nearly $16 million in funding to help businesses move promising energy technologi...

Preliminary tests have demonstrated that a new device may enable existing breast cancer imagers to provide up to six times better contrast of tumors in the breast, while maintaining the same or better image quality and halving the radiation dose to pat...

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced over $82 million in nuclear energy research, facility access, crosscutting technology development, and infrastructure awards in 28 states. In total, 93 projects were selected to receive funding that ...

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are investigating a new material that might help in nuclear fuel recycling and waste reduction by capturing certain gases released during reprocessing.