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Awards and Recognition

Tomas Polakovic develops the next generation of superconducting particle detectors

Superconducting nanowires have a variety of applications in nuclear physics and cosmology, says the Argonne Fellow.

Materials Science and Engineering, Nanomaterials, About Argonne

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New startups join Argonne’s entrepreneurship program

Clean energy startups embed at Argonne to develop innovative technologies that hold promise for helping mitigate climate change.

Entrepreneurship, Science and Technology Partnerships and Outreach, centers and joint institutes

Leslie Rogers. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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Leslie Rogers explores the mysterious imbalance of matter and antimatter

The Maria Goeppert Mayer fellow is studying a rare form of radioactive decay that has never been observed.

Physics, Medium Energy Physics, About Argonne

Awards and Recognition

Argonne researchers win three 2023 R&D 100 Awards

The R&D 100 Awards have recognized three projects involving Argonne and partners as 2023 winners.

Computational Science, Computational Environmental Science, High Performance Computing

In preparation for teaching data science in their own classrooms, teachers participating in Argonne’s Data Science Institute for High School Teachers had the opportunity to guide students through coding with Jupyter Notebooks.

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Teacher institute empowers teachers to bring data science to the classroom

Workshop connects high school teachers with data science so they can apply new approaches to their lesson plans.

Education, Learning Center, Science and Technology Partnerships and Outreach

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Argonne National Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy multidisciplinary science and engineering research center, where talented researchers work together to answer the biggest questions facing humanity.

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Argonne’s user facilities provide researchers with open access to the most advanced tools of modern science. Each year, nearly 8,000 researchers from academia, industry, and government laboratories use these facilities to perform new scientific research.

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Argonne Impacts: State by State

Argonne’s collaborations across the United States have led to groundbreaking discoveries and development of new technologies that help meet the nation’s needs for sustainable energy, economic prosperity, and security.

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Argonne Research Facilities

Argonne’s labs and facilities provide unique capabilities to the scientific community. Through collaborative research agreements, scientists can obtain access to specialized instrumentation and expertise rarely found elsewhere.

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Collaborative Research

Argonne fosters innovation by uniting teams of researchers on challenges to overcome scientific barriers. Our collaborative centers and institutes bring together the best minds from academia, industry, and the national labs.

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Working at the interface between academia, federal agencies, industry, research institutions and state and local governments, our researchers have cultivated their interdisciplinary expertise in order to best solve national challenges in key areas.

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Unraveling Nature’s deepest mysteries, from the study of subatomic particles, to atoms and molecules that make up our everyday world.

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Research Highlights

Our scientists conduct research that advances the frontiers of science and creates new knowledge. Here you will find some of our most recent research highlights.

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Artistic rendering of water sensor with graphene-based nanolayer and two electrodes attached at top. Alternating current voltages at varying frequencies (wavvy lines) are used to rapidly and non-destructively screen for high-quality sensor devices. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

Pivotal discovery in sensor technology to combat water contamination and more

Major step toward large-scale manufacturing of uniform and reliable smart sensors for real-time monitoring of multiple constituents in water.

Aquatic Science, Water Resources, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Scientists discover unusual ultrafast motion in layered magnetic materials

Cutting-edge ultrafast imaging by several methods revealed ultrafast mechanical motion tied to a change in magnetic state in a layered material. This magnetic effect could have applications in nanodevices requiring ultra-precise and fast motion control.

Materials Science and Engineering, Nanomaterials, Biomedical Engineering

The COVID-19 pandemic has piqued interest in antibody therapies. (Image by Shutterstock.)

Researchers use Argonne X-rays to find the best antibodies

Antibody therapies have a variety of uses, but we need to know which therapies work and which ones don’t. Recent research has discovered a means to determine how effective certain antibodies can be in medical scenarios.

Biology, Animal Biology, Structural Biology

Harnessing the power of water: Argonne and NREL study shows the potential of pumped storage hydropower in Alaska

Alaska is warming faster than any other state. Pumped storage hydropower has the potential to integrate more wind and solar into the energy grid to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions driving climate change in the state.

Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, Energy Technology and Storage

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LINAC2024

LINAC2024 hosted by Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

August 25, 2024|4:00 PM | Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605

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