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Ames Lab chosen to lead new Energy Frontier Research Center

The new EFRC will research ways to upcycle plastics into more valuable materials.

Secretary Brouillette Tours Ames Laboratory

On Wednesday, June 17, 2020, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette toured Ames Laboratory on the campus of Iowa State University with Lab Director Adam Schwartz. As one of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) 17 National Labs, Ames is dedicated to researching critical materials, science, and engineering for the benefit of American manufacturing and innovation via its Critical Materials Institute.

Ames Tribune: Energy secretary says research at Ames Lab is critical to reducing reliance on China for rare minerals

The Ames Tribune reported the Secretary of Energy visit to Ames Laboratory on June 17, 2020

Research conducted at Ames lab critical to national security, U.S. official says

The Des Moines Register reported on the Secretary of Energy visit to Ames Laboratory on June 17, 2020

Des Moines Register report on the U.S. Secretary of Energy visit to Ames Laboratory: CMI Director Tom Lograsso (left) describes the award winning, patented acid-free dissolution process developed by CMI researchers to U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, who looks at sample of shredded hard disk drive in the CAMPS laboratory.

Secretary of Energy responds to Trump's criticism of renewable energy industry

KCCI-TV reports on the Secretary of Energy visit to Ames Laboratory on June 17, 2020

KCCI report on US Secretary of Energy visiting Ames Laboratory on Iowa State University campus

Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette lauds Ames Laboratory materials effort

In an op-ed published in the Des Moines Register, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouilette lauded research being conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory as playing "a key role in advancing transformational research, development, and solution deployment across the entire critical materials supply chain."

CMI researchers Ikenna Nlebedim and Denis Prodius review samples for the acid-free dissolution process they developed at Ames Laboratory

Paul Canfield elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Canfield is part of a new class of more than 250 members elected to the academy this year.

Ames Tribune: Congressmen tour Ames Lab, tout innovation in rare earth minerals

Four US Representatives toured the Ames Laboratory, including visiting the Advanced Powder Synthesis facility, Controlled Atmospheric Materials Processing System (CAMPS), the Materials Preparation Center and the Sensitive Instrument Facility (SIF).

Tom Lograsso, interim CMI Director, shows samples to US Representatives visiting Ames Laboratory

In hot pursuit of 21st century cooling

Ames Laboratory's research efforts in caloric materials was highlighted in a recent article from APS Physics.

Paper named one of Nanoscale's most popular in 2019

A journal paper published by Pat Thiel and fellow researchers at Ames Laboratory was one of the most popular published in Nanoscale in 2019.