Feature Articles
Timothy Plett
We all have our wish list for batteries. But batteries are compromises, balancing cost, longevity, energy, speed, and so forth. Scientists at the Energy Frontier Research Centers are seeking to minimize these trade-offs through new techniques that study and protect lithium-ion batteries...
Kirsten Chojnicki
Chemical reactions influence how fluids travel for oil recovery, nuclear waste remediation, and other activities. Scientists at several EFRCs are discovering how to improve our understanding of fluids' ETAs...
Michelle A. Harris
What will it take to achieve the diversity needed to solve the nation's toughest energy challenges? Scientists at the EFRCs take on this question and more...
Rhesa Ledbetter
Scientists and educators were inspired to pursue their careers by family, teachers, and even a young inmate. Learn what led these people to dedicate their careers to research...
Nate Thomas
Carving away or growing in new patterns on the materials used in solar cells could change...
Research Highlights
Wrapping up catalysts and light absorbers creates an assembly that can turn light into fuel...
Thought to be insulators, certain frameworks actually conduct electricity and can tolerate rough conditions, making them a promising material for turning sunlight into fuel...
Using a thin, copper-based mesh produces a solar cell that is more efficient and flexible than its counterpart...
A state-of-the-science article shows what can be done with a new X-ray tool that offers never-before-seen details about superconductors...
Turning sunlight into fuels is a dance that has quite intricate steps. Now, scientists have a new way to delve into how it all begins...
Too little and the carbon dioxide isn't captured. Too much and plugs form. The just-right amount didn't exist. It came down to changing...
Interviews
Editor's Note
Some days, it’s about the journey—the dreaming, the planning, the adventures you have along the way. It’s the fantastic Italian restaurant you find because you got lost walking back to your hotel. Or the discoveries scientists make and the inspirations that lead them to dedicate their careers to research. Such as working to replace a brittle metal in a solar cell and finding out you may be closer to solar panels that could be rolled up like a rug. Or studying carbon capture and finding out that the problem isn’t what everyone said it was. This issue of Frontiers in Energy Research offers you a chance to read about the diverse backgrounds, concerns, and discoveries made as the scientists journey to the energy frontiers and beyond.
Editorial Board
- Kirsten Chojnicki, Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security
- Corinne Dorais, Materials Science of Actinides Center
- Lauren Garten, Center for Next Generation of Materials by Design: Incorporating Metastability
- Michelle Harris, Argonne-Northwestern University Solar Energy Research Center
- Nare Janvelyan, Integrated Mesoscale Architectures for Sustainable Catalysis
- Ke Jin, Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution
- Rhesa Ledbetter, Center for Biological Electron Transfer and Catalysis
- Zachary Morseth, Center for Solar Fuels
- Ryan Patet, Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation
- Tim Plett, Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage Energy Frontier Research Center
- Nate Thomas, Light-Materials Interactions Energy Frontier Research Center
- Garrett Williams, Center for Biological Electron Transfer and Catalysis
Kristin Manke, Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis, Editor-in-Chief
Guest Writer
- Sameer Patwardhan, Argonne-Northwestern University Solar Energy Research Center
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.