Research Highlights

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Direct reduction of cerium oxide advances Al-Ce alloying

CMI researchers at Ames National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Eck Industries conducted the research for this highlight

image from backscattered electron micrograph

Hybrid rotor multiple magnets (HRMM) design for traction motors

CMI researchers at Ames National Laboratory conducted the research for this highlight

bar graph shows Peak Torque and Torque/$ Comparison

Determining the Distributions of Surface Sites in Motion

A method was established to study the geometry and arrangement of dynamic surface species.

Interlayer space tuning in MCM-22 type layered zeolites

A first-principles analysis of pillaring in layered zeolitic MCM-22 type materials was carried alongside experimental characterization of pillared MCM-22 variants.

Earth-Abundant Metals Catalyze Energy-Efficient Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)

Replacement of precious metals is achieved for chemical CDR with two earth-abundant metals working in tandem.

Adaptive quantum circuit construction for ground state preparation of multiorbital impurity models

Different variational quantum eigensolvers for ground state preparation of multiorbital embedding impurity models were benchmarked in the presence of hardware noise.

eg impurity-bath model and ground state energy convergence graph

Tuning electronic coupling in bilayer graphenevis-á-vis metal intercalation

Gd intercalation introduces an exceptionally large transverse displacement field acting on the overlying Bernal - stacked bilayer graphene (BLG).

breaking interlayer coupling in graphene

Imaging exciton-plasmon polaritons in WSe2/Au heterostructures

Exciton-plasmon polaritons in WSe2/Au heterostructures are imaged, which show a strong coupling between excitons in WSe2 and surface plasmons on gold.

Accelerating the discovery of novel materials using a machine learning guided framework

Novel low-energy La-Si-P ternary compounds are efficiently predicted by an ML-guided framework which dramatically (~100 times) accelerates the pace of materials discovery.

Terahertz nano-imaging of a perovskite solar cell

Photo-carrier transport is mapped and visualized at the sub-grain level on a perovskite solar cell material with nanometer spatial resolution and terahertz frequency scales.