Researchers at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered an enzyme that digests cellulose almost twice as fast as the current leading enzyme on the market. NREL researchers first discovered the enzyme in a microorganism found in the Valley of Geysers on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in 1990.  The team’s paper “Revealing Nature’s […]

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a way to microscopically view battery electrodes while they are bathed in wet electrolytes, mimicking realistic conditions inside actual batteries. The research was published in the December 11’s issue of Nano Letters.  The techniques are good news for scientists studying battery materials […]

A quick look over the server records and Google Analytics shows we English speaking folks are not the only ones here.  So as well as a Happy New Year in your humble writer’s own language here are some more, not all, but a lot more and hopefully those languages missed will appreciate the wish, sincerely […]

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