Materials Sciences and Engineering News

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

New discoveries made about a promising solar cell material, thanks to new microscope

A team of scientists from the Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory developed a new characterization tool that allowed them to gain unique insight into a possible alternative material for solar cells.

Fundamental research improves understanding of new optical materials

Scientists from Ames National Laboratory and Iowa State University developed a colloidal synthesis method for alkaline earth chalcogenides.

Unit cells & electron micrographs of alkaline earth chalcogenide nanocrystals.

Ames National Laboratory research project awarded $4.5M to understand and control properties of rare earth materials

The Department of Energy recently announced the winners for the 2022 Chemical and Materials Sciences to Advance Clean-Energy Technologies and Transform Manufacturing (CEM) awards.