The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced last week that 43 small businesses will participate in the second round of the Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot.
Established in 2012, the award “targets researchers as well as science managers based outside of Germany, who have excelled in their research” by providing 20,000 euros to support a research fellowship.
X-ray physicist Haidan Wen of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has received a DOE Early Career Award, a prestigious research grant for $2.5 million over five years.
Argonne researcher Michael M. Thackeray was recently named 2016 recipient of the E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry by the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Quantitative information on the electric fields surrounding the electrode could improve modeling of the reactions taking place inside a battery, and could allow for more efficient design.