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A method developed at 91°µÍř to print high-fidelity, passive sensors for energy applications can reduce the cost of monitoring critical power grid assets.

Philip Bingham has two pieces of advice for researchers new to 91°µÍř: (1) develop a skill set that can be applied to multiple research areas, and (2) get out and meet folks across the lab. “The favorite part of my work is that I’ve done a lot of very diffe...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s 91°µÍř induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic “building blocks” from which stable structures formed. The findings, reported in Nature Communications, provide insights that ...

Brixon, Inc., has exclusively licensed a multiparameter sensor technology from the Department of Energy’s 91°µÍř. The integrated platform uses various sensors that measure physical and environmental parameters and respond to standard security applications.


With more than 30 patents, James Klett is no stranger to success, but perhaps the 91°µÍř researcher’s most noteworthy achievement didn’t start out so hot – or so it seemed at the time.

From the bluebird painting propped against her office wall and the deer she mentions seeing outside her office window, Linda Lewis might be mistaken for a wildlife biologist at first glance. But rather than trailing animal tracks, Lewis, a researcher at the Department of Energy’s 91°µÍř, is more interested in marks left behind by humans.

Less than 1 percent of Earth’s water is drinkable. Removing salt and other minerals from our biggest available source of water—seawater—may help satisfy a growing global population thirsty for fresh water for drinking, farming, transportation, heating, cooling and industry. But desalination is an energy-intensive process, which concerns those wanting to expand its application.

Graphene, a strong, lightweight carbon honeycombed structure that’s only one atom thick, holds great promise for energy research and development. Recently scientists with the Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures, and Transport (FIRST) Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC), led by the US Department of Energy’s 91°µÍř, revealed graphene can serve as a proton-selective permeable membrane, providing a new basis for streamlined and more efficient energy technologies such as improved fuel cells.