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Iowa Powder Atomization Technologies in running for "America's Next Top Energy Innovator"

Please vote for IPAT in America's Next Top Energy Innovator Challenge.

http://energy.gov/americas-next-top-energy-innovator-challenge

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Pat Thiel talks about attending the Nobel Prize ceremony

Pat Thiel, Ames Laboratory senior scientist and Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, was invited to be a guest at the ceremony on December 10th, in Stockholm, Sweden, where Danny Shechtman, Ames Laboratory scientist, received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Following her return to the Lab, Thiel shared some of her recollections of the momentous event.

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SULI student featured in video

Trishelle Copeland-Johnson, a former CCI and SULI student at Ames Laboratory is featured in a video by the University of South Florida, where she is majoring in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering. In the video, she discusses her summer internships at the Ames Laboratory.

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Ames Lab 101: Lead-free Solder

Ames Laboratory senior metallurgist Iver Anderson explains the importance of lead-free solder in taking hazardous lead out of the environment by eliminating it from discarded computers and electronics that wind up in landfills. Anderson led a team that developed a tin-silver-copper replacement for traditional lead solder that has been adopted by more than 50 companies worldwide.

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Ames Lab 101: Lanthanum Decanting

Ames Laboratory scientist Trevor Riedemann explains the process that allows Ames Laboratory's Materials Preparation Center to produce some of the purest lanthanum in the world. This and other high-purity rare-earth elements are used to create alloys used in various research projects and is playing a crucial role on the Planck satellite mission.

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Ames Lab 101: VE Suite

Ames Laboratory scientist Mark Bryden talks about virtual engineering and the advantages it gives engineers when they can "walk through" designs visually.

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Ames Lab 101: C6 Virtual Engineering

Ames Laboratory scientist Doug McCorkle explains the importance of virtual engineering and talks about the C6. The C6 is a three-dimensional, fully-immersive synthetic environment residing in the center atrium of Iowa State University's Howe Hall.

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Ames Lab 101: Technology Transfer

Ames Laboratory Associate Laboratory Director, Sponsored Research Administration, Debra Covey discusses technology transfer. Covey also discusses Ames Laboratory's most successful transfer, lead-free solder.

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Ames Lab 101: Next-Generation Power Lines

Ames Laboratory scientist Alan Russell discusses the need to develop new power lines that are stronger and more conductive as a way to address the problem of the nation's aging and inadequate power grid.

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Ames Lab 101: Rare Earths

"Mr. Rare Earth," Ames Laboratory scientist Karl Gschneidner Jr., explains the importance of rare-earth materials in many of the technologies we use today -- ranging from computers to hybrid cars to wind turbines. Gschneidner is a world renowned rare-earths expert at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory.

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