In The News
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BBC News - US to build $120m rare earth research institute
BBC News technology reporter Katia Moskvitch writes about the announcement by the U.S. Department of Energy to locate a $120 Innovation Hub for Critical Materials at the Ames Laboratory. The Critical Materials Institute will be a partnership of four national laboratories, seven research universities and seven industrial partners charged with finding ways to reduce the criticality of rare earth materials used in most new technologies.
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Ames Lab Awarded Big Money
WHO-TV covered the announcement of the location of a $120 million DOE Innovation Hub for Critical Materials at the Ames Laboratory. Channel 13 reporter Aaron Brilbeck interviewed Ames Lab Director Alex King and included video of rare-earth research taking place at the lab. (Go to article)
Other media outlets covering the CMI announcement included:
Des Moines Register:
Ames Tribune 
Omaha World-Herald 
United Press International (wire service) 
Talking Points Memo 
RE News 
Clean Technica 
Smart Grid News 
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Discovering the keys to improved biofuel catalysts
Biomass Magazine carried a news story on the work by a collaborative team of scientists at the Ames Laboratory's Division of Chemical and Biological Science into study of nanospheres as catalysts in improved processes for refining biofuels and producing other chemicals. The story was the result of a news release on the research.
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IPAT wins Pappajohn Iowa Business Plan Award
The Des Moines Register's Marco Santana talks with Iowa Powder Atomization Technologies founders Andrew Heidloff and Joel Rieken after the Ames Lab startup company's business plan was selected as the winning entry in the Pappajohn Iowa Business Plan Competition. IPAT received $25,000 for having the top business plan.
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Office of Science chief Brinkman featured in International Innovation
In an article in International Innovation, DOE Office of Science Director Dr William F. Brinkman outlines the Office's efforts to address increasing energy requirements, which include research initiatives aimed at developing new technologies.
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Young-Jin Lee's research in R&D magazine
R&D magazine carried the Ames Laboratory news release on research by Young-Jin Lee on a new mass spectroscopy techniques that are helping plant biologists get their first glimpses of never-before-seen plant tissue structures. The new method opens up new realms of study, ones that might have long-ranging implications for biofuels research and crop genetics.
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Magnet research makes New York Times
New York Times reporter Jim Witkin writes about efforts to develop new types of magnets for use in hybrid and electric vehicles, including research by Ames Lab senior metallurgist Bill McCallum who is working to develop a rare-earth magnet that uses more abundant cerium in place of neodymium. McCallum's work is being funded through a recent grant by ARPA-E, the Department of Energy's advanced research agency.
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Ames Lab's Bill McCallum featured in National Geographic Article
National Geographic correspondent Catherine T. Yang quotes Ames Lab senior materials scientist Bill McCallum in a story, "While Rare-Earth Trade Dispute Heats Up, Scientists Seek Alternatives" in the National Geographic's Daily News section. The story is part of a special series that explores energy issues. For more, visit The Great Energy Challenge.
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Lead-free solder becomes top earner for Ames, ISU
On Jan. 5, R&D Magazine carried the Ames Lab press release announcing that lead-free solder had taken over the top spot in the amount of royalty revenue generated by a technology developed at Ames Laboratory.
The environmentally-friendly solder was the first cost-effective, broadly useable alternative to tin-lead solder, a toxic but necessary ingredient in a range of popular—and proliferating—consumer electronics.
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Ames Laboratory spinoff in running as America's Next Top Energy Innovator
Iowa Powder Atomization Technologies is one of several companies vying for the title of America's Next Top Energy Innovator as part of a program sponsored by the Department of Energy to help start-up companies license technology developed at the national laboratories. The public will be able to vote early in 2012 to help choose the company that will be honored as the Top Energy Innovator.
IPAT, based in Nevada, Iowa, is using gas atomization technology developed at Ames Laboratory to make titanium powder with processes that are ten times more efficient than traditional powder-making methods — significantly lowering the cost of the powder to manufacturers.
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