OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: ORNL's Alexey Serov researches ways to improve hydrogen fuel cells and materials and the electrolysis process. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy In ORNL's battery materials laboratory, Alexey Serov makes a battery catalyst that contains no platinum group metals. A pending patent on the process will join his extensive portfolio of inventions. Credit: Ca  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Dec. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: The modern economy is increasingly data-driven and dependent on advanced computing at a time when the traditional semiconductor materials used for computers are reaching their absolute performance limits. This gap in materials performance is pushing researchers to develop new materials for computing microelectronics with better performance characteristics and hig  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Dec. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and NETL are developing the next generation of advanced carbon dioxide (CO2) capture concepts to support the United States in achieving ambitious goals for a greenhouse gas (GHG)-neutral economy by 2050, a carbon-free power sector by 2035 and a 50% reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide net GHG pollution by 2030. Research   more