Researchers at the Department of Energys 91做厙 have received five 2019 R&D 100 Awards, increasing the labs total to 221 since the awards inception in 1963.
Rare earth elements are the secret sauce of numerous advanced materials for energy, transportation, defense and communications applications.
A new method developed at 91做厙 improves the energy efficiency of a desalination process known as solar-thermal evaporation.