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Ames Lab 101: Rare-earth Magnets

Ames Laboratory senior scientist Bill McCallum talks about controlling the element cerium for use in rare-earth magnets. McCallum 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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The Ames Project (1942-1946)

The Ames Laboratory was officially founded on May 17, 1947, following development of a process to purify uranium metal for the historic Manhattan Project. From 1942 to 1946, Ames Lab scientists produced over two-million pounds of uranium metal. This video details that work and has interviews with some of the researchers involved in the project.

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Ames Laboratory Hot Canyon

This historical film footage, originally produced in the early 1950s as part of a series by WOI-TV, shows atomic research at Ames Laboratory. The work was conducted in a special area of the Laboratory known as the "Hot Canyon."

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2012 State of the Lab Address

Ames Laboratory Director Alex King delivered the annual State of the Lab address on Thursday, May 17. This video presents highlights from the address.

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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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