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EHPRG conference in Uppsala
Olga Degtyareva, the recipient of 2010 EHPRG Award and former GL postdoc, stands beside Maddury Somayazulu (r) and Ho-kwang (Dave) Mao (l), director of EFree, at the 2010 European High Pressure Group conference held in Uppsala.
R. Mayanovic gives highlights talk
Robert Mayanovic and postdoc Hao Yan, Missouri State University, visited the Geophysical Laboratory on 21-22 July. Bob gave a presentation, entitled, "Metal ion adsorption on Fe3O4 nanoparticles in supercritical aqueous fluids", and discussed possible collaborations with EFree and other Lab scientists.
Diamonds, Earth's Core and Mineral Field Trip
Dr. Lin at UT Austin participated in the UTeach Outreach Program by leading a theme presentation and a lab tour, “UTeach Outreach: Diamonds, Earth's Core and Mineral Field Trip”, to ten groups of fourth graders from the Austin Independent School District (AISD).
New Instrument Development Team for SNAP neutron beamline formed
On May 26th 2010, EFree Partners attended a meeting at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in TN. Focusing on developments of the SNAP high pressure diffractometer.
Gas loading system built in UT-Austin
Afu Lin and Roger Gary have successfully built a HP gas loading system at UT-Austin's Mineral Physics Lab. at the Jackson School of Geosciences. It is packed into a small cart for flexibility and safety.
In photo are Afu Lin and Roger Gary showing off their gas loading system.
About EFree
Energy Frontier Research in Extreme Environments center (EFree) at the Geophysical Lab is one of the Department of Energy's 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs), a program initiated in 2009. Ho-kwang (Dave) Mao is the director.
Extreme environments of pressure and temperature have long been known to affect radical changes on the structure and properties of matter. The goal of the EFree Center is to explore these and, in particular, to uncover new materials with important relevance for energy based applications. Our focus is to conduct the fundamental research which will underpin the technological advances of the future. The Center’s broad partnership encompasses 8 partner universities and 6 national laboratories, in an effort that is coordinated by the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. We hope to accelerate the progress of science by exploiting through a large-scale, multifaceted research program.
DOE News
| About the DOE, Basic Energy Sciences Division and the Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC). BES-sponsored workshop reports which resulted from The “Basic Research Needs” Workshop Series used to help identify research directions for a decades-to-century energy strategy are available at the BES website. |