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Old friends find new way of breaking down plastic for recycling

Luzinov and Balema first met more than 20 years ago at Iowa State. While they share a background in chemistry, it wasn’t science that brought them together.

First author: undergraduate internship at Ames Laboratory jump-starts research career

Tyler Del Rose participated in the U.S. Department of Energy’s SULI program at Ames Laboratory while an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan.

Polystyrene waste is everywhere, and it’s not biodegradable. Scientists just found a way to break it down.

Ames Laboratory and their partners from Clemson University have discovered a green, low-energy process to break down polystyrene

Shaking up topology with light

Ames Lab science featured in Nature Materials News & Views

Better Refractory Formulations through Accelerated Scientific Discovery

A tool to optimize powder formulations for metal additive manufacturing will greatly decrease time for new alloy development

Light-induced twisting of Weyl nodes switches on giant electron current

The discovery was made in a category of topological materials that holds great promise for spintronics, topological effect transistors, and quantum computing.

Borrowing from birds, experts reduce search times for novel high-entropy alloys to seconds

Ames Laboratory enhanced an algorithm that borrows its approach from the nesting habits of cuckoo birds, reducing the search time for new high-tech alloys from weeks to mere seconds.

Forging Materials with the ‘Right Stuff’ for Tomorrow’s Energy Systems

Materials are foundational technology, and they will continue to be an important focus of nearly all technology development.

Ames Lab's Rinko appointed to PCAST subcommittee

Ph.D. candidate Emily Rinko to serve on inaugural SPEC subcommittee advising policymakers on student perspectives

Ames Lab scientists contribute to newly published rare earths textbook

“Rare Earth Chemistry,” newly published by De Gruyter, contains a chapter on solid state cooling authored by Ames Laboratory scientists.