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The Des Moines Register reported on the Secretary of Energy visit to Ames Laboratory on June 17, 2020
The Ames Tribune reported the Secretary of Energy visit to Ames Laboratory on June 17, 2020
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.
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.
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.
Insider - June 2020
Ihor Hlova at Ames Laboratory leads the CMI project "Samarium-iron-nitrogen (SmFeN) as a cost-effective high performance magnet"
Michael Kesler at Oak Ridge National Laboratory leads the CMI project "Enhancing Hydrogenation-disproportionation-desorption-recombination (HDDR) powders"
Aaron Wilson at Idaho National Laboratory leads the CMI Project "Switchable solvent dewatering from recovery of critical materials"
Mary Case at Idaho National Laboratory leads the CMI project "Low-temperature chemical-mediated reduction of rare earth elements"