News Releases

Ames Lab-led research team wins a $12.8M boost from the Department of Energy to tackle plastic upcycling science

A multi-institutional team of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, which has been working on the problem for almost three years, is growing into the Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP) Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC), with $12.8 million in funding over four years.

Ames Laboratory’s Perras named to Early Career Research Program

Ames Laboratory associate scientist Frederic Perras is one of 76 researchers selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science from across the nation to receive significant funding for research as part of DOE’s Early Career Research Program.

Using chaos as a tool, scientists discover new method of making 3D-heterostructured materials

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and their collaborators from Iowa State University have developed a new approach for generating layered, difficult-to-combine, heterostructured solids, materials, composed of layers of dissimilar building blocks that display unique electronic transport and magnetic properties that are governed by quantum interactions between their structurally different building blocks, and open new avenues for electronic and energy applications.

Energy Secretary Brouillette visits Ames Laboratory for update on critical materials research

The Energy Secretary toured Ames Laboratory Facilities today.

Secretary Brouillette to Travel to Iowa and Idaho

On Wednesday, June 17, 2020, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette will be in Ames, Iowa, to tour the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames National Laboratory and DOE’s Critical Materials Institute (CMI). The CMI is a DOE Energy Innovation Hub led by Ames Laboratory and supports early-stage research to advance innovation in U.S. manufacturing.

New discovery: skyrmions can split like biological cells

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered that skyrmions— a type of quasiparticle with properties that could lead to the next generation of data storage and transfer— reproduce by splitting in a way very similar to biological cell division.

Lograsso named Critical Materials Institute Director

Thomas Lograsso has been named director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute (CMI) at Ames Laboratory. He currently serves as the interim director, and his appointment to the permanent position will be effective immediately.

Ames Lab scientists find another clue to explain unconventional superconductivity

Physicists have successfully performed measurements of an iron-based superconductor in a but difficult-to-reach regime where critical quantum fluctuations dominate the physics.

diagram demonstrating the presence of quantum phase transitions within a superconducting material

New discovery helps close the gap towards optically-controlled quantum computation

Finding the beat: New discovery settles a long-standing debate about photovoltaic materials

Ames Lab settles a long-standing debate about photovoltaic materials