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Frontiers in
Energy Research
Newsletter
Fall 2020

Feature Articles

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    Multi-Scale X-ray Scattering to Address Fundamental Research Questions

    Hassnain Asgar

    Imagine you are kayaking in the middle of your favorite lake on a fine summer day and you decide to touch the water with your hand. You see water ripples on the surface of the water moving in all directions. We can observe the same phenomenon by just dipping a plastic ball in the water. It becomes interesting when we use two plastic balls, because we start to see the interaction of the ripples from both sources.

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    A Crystalline Library of Metal Deposits

    Timothy Goetjen

    Have you ever wondered if the gas used to heat your home or cook your food was destined for greater things? With the increased abundance of domestic natural gas, it is more economically feasible to convert natural gas components to higher value chemicals than to break down imported crude oil.

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    Unlocking dilute alloy catalysts: the key lies just beneath the surface

    Nicholas Marcella

    Scientists at the Integrated Mesoscale Architecture for Sustainable Catalysis (IMASC) Energy Frontier Research Center have demonstrated that specific environmental conditions drive their so called “dilute alloy” catalyst to restructure, resulting in a surface enriched by the active species.

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    Powering up Li-ion batteries with anion redox chemistry

    Daniel Robertson

    Right now, you are probably reading this article on a device powered by a Li-ion battery. In the past decade, these energy storage devices have become ubiquitous in daily life. Improvements to Li-ion batteries have provided major boosts to portable electronics like laptop computers and smartphones. These electronics have evolved to use increasingly sophisticated computing technology that would never be portable without the significant amount of energy stored in the Li-ion batteries that power it.

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Research Highlights

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    Understanding the structure of lignin, the way nature makes it
    Sintu Rongpipi

    Multifunctionality in nature is derived from structural heterogeneity. Biological molecules and their assemblies are highly complex in structure and versatile in function. The well-defined structures of biological molecules enable living organisms to perform complex synthetic functions, producing a wide range of products—from simple small molecules to macromolecular assemblies.

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    The Shape of Water (in Polymers)
    ChoongSze Lee

    Hundreds of feet below Texas Hill Country lies the Edwards Aquifer, which supplies drinking water for nearly two million people in Austin and San Antonio, Texas. The Edwards Aquifer is one of the most unique groundwater systems with water weaving through a series of honeycomb, porous limestones. A few hundred feet above the aquifer, at the University of Texas at Austin, scientists are studying how water flows through similar channels, albeit at a nanometer length scale in soft materials.

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    Sustainability of Renewable Energy Technology
    Malgorzata (Gosia) Chwatko

    Everyone daydreams about the future, about their career, family, or life goals. While dreaming, many of us picture electric cars or reduced reliance on fossil fuels. In some countries, such as France, these goals are already being realized. The entire country is already transitioning to selling only electric vehicles. This green transition is part of a goal for a sustainable world, which begs the question: are solar and wind power technologies sustainable?

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    Mind the “materials gap”
    Cora Went

    What do FM radio, your microwave, 5G cell phone service, light from a lightbulb, and X-rays have in common? They are all forms of electromagnetic waves—oscillating electric and magnetic fields that can travel through space. Electromagnetic waves are everywhere. The wavelength of the radiation, or the distance between consecutive peaks of the wave, determines what kind of radiation it is. FM radio transmits on electromagnetic waves with wavelengths of about a meter.

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    Bamboo? A promising step forward for America’s infrastructure
    Eric Assaf

    When you think about bamboo, you might conjure up images of pandas snacking in a distant jungle. In fact, bamboo finds many versatile uses, in food, construction, and use in the manufacture of textiles, to name a few (Gupta 2008). People have recognized the versatility and utility of bamboo plants for centuries, especially in regions where the plant naturally occurs, and have successfully integrated it into many facets of their societies.

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Nancy M. Washton and Jeffrey G. Holmes, Co-editors-in-Chief

 

Editorial Board
 

  • Hassnain Asgar, Mutli-Scale Fluid-Solid Interactions Architected and Natural Materials (MUSE)
  • Eric Assaf, Alliance for Molecular PhotoElectrode Design for Solar Fuels (AMPED)
  • Malgorzata (Gosia) Chwatko, Center for Materials for Water and Energy Systems (M-WET)
  • Tim Goetjen, Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center (ICDC)
  • Eli Hoenig, Advanced Materials for Energy Water Systems (AMEWS)
  • ChoongSze Lee, Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI)
  • Nicholas Marcella, Integrated Mesoscale Architectures for Sustainable Catalysis (IMASC 2.0)
  • Daniel Robertson, Synthetic Control Across Length-scales for Advancing Rechargeables (SCALAR)
  • Sintu Rongpipi, Center for Lignocellulose Structural and Formation (CLSF)
  • Cora Went, Photonics at Thermodynamic Limits (PTL)

Disclaimer: The opinions in this newsletter are those of the individual authors and do not represent the views or position of the Department of Energy.

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Newsletter Issue Related Articles

Multi-Scale X-ray Scattering to Address Fundamental Research Questions
A Crystalline Library of Metal Deposits
Unlocking dilute alloy catalysts: the key lies just beneath the surface
Powering up Li-ion batteries with anion redox chemistry

Research Highlights

Understanding the structure of lignin, the way nature makes it
The Shape of Water (in Polymers)
Sustainability of Renewable Energy Technology
Mind the “materials gap”
Bamboo? A promising step forward for America’s infrastructure
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