Joan Koka, Argonne National Laboratory One of the largest challenges facing the 3-D printing industry is how to ensure high-quality reproducibility of parts. Without better insights into how to detect and stop defects, the technology has limitations when producing commodity parts. That much-needed insight is at industrial designers’ fingertips now, thanks to a new tool…

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have found a new way to produce solar fuels by developing completely synthetic bionano machinery to harvest light without the need for a living cell. The researchers’ technique, reported in ACS Nano as a “synthetic purple membrane,” is an important step toward producing clean fuels…