Materials Science Division

December 14, 2011 - Catalysts are one of those things that few people think much about, beyond perhaps in high school chemistry, but they make the world tick. Almost everything in your daily life depends on catalysts: cars, Post-It notes, laundry detergent, beer. All the parts of your sandwich — bread, cheddar cheese, roast turkey.

December 8, 2011 - Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed an extraordinarily efficient two-step process that electrolyzes hydrogen atoms from water molecules before combining them to make molecular hydrogen (H₂), which can be used in any number of applications from fuel cells to industrial processing. 

November 21, 2011 — Materials Scientists watch electrons "melt"

Materials scientists often face the challenge of finding ways to move electrons across interfaces and through a material, according to John Mitchell.

May 2012 - Construction has made significant progress on the new Energy Sciences Building at Argonne. "The ESB will enable highly interactive scientific collaborations by bringing together in one place energy-related scientific research that is presently spread throughout the Argonne campus" – Argonne Director Eric Isaacs

September 2011 — New TRIXS for measuring low energy surface and interfacial electronic structure at in situ conditions

August 8, 2011 — Alexey Snezhko and Igor Aronson, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, have coaxed "micro-robots" to do their bidding.