Materials Sciences and Engineering News

New quantum echo discovered in superconductors

Scientists at the U. S. Department of Energy Ames National Laboratory and Iowa State University have discovered an unexpected "quantum echo" in a superconducting material. This discovery provides insight into quantum behaviors that could be used for next-generation quantum sensing and computing technologies.

Ames National Laboratory scientist and inventor Iver Anderson retires

The Copper Country and curiosity were the bedrock of an inventive career in materials science.

Researchers address material challenges to make commercial fusion power a reality

Researchers from the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) Ames National Laboratory and Iowa State University are leading efforts to overcome materials challenges that could make commercial fusion power a reality.

Diagram of the first wall of a fusion reactor.

The future of more sustainable cooling and heating technology could be just around the corner

A team of researchers from the U. S. Department of Energy Ames National Laboratory developed a magnetocaloric heat pump that matches current vapor-compression heat pumps for weight, cost, and performance.

Image of heat pump designed by the Ames Lab team.

Researchers find unexpected excitations in a Kagome layered material

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy Ames National Laboratory have discovered an unexpected chiral excitation in the kagome layered topological magnet TbMn6Sn6.

Technology Review: How new magnets could accelerate climate action

Ames National Laboratory scientist Matt Kramer is an expert source on magnetism in this MIT Technology Review news story about Minnesota-based start-up Niron Magnetics,

Rice University, Ames Lab team up on "stacked pancake" physics of magnetism

Rice University teamed up with Ames National Laboratory to explain the behavior of magnetic materials

New superalloy could cut carbon emissions from power plants

Sandia Laboratory partnered with Ames National Laboratory, Iowa State University, and Bruker Corporation.

Ames Lab scientist models a first: a pinwheel-shaped chiral nanostructure

An Ames Laboratory scientist is a co-author of a paper published in Nature, of a newly discovered tetrahedral shaped chiral nanostructure

Ames Lab science featured in Optics & Photonics News

Recent solar cell discoveries at Ames National Laboratory were featured in Optics & Photonic News