In The News
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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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Ames Lab technology being commercialized
Ames Laboratory technology is being developed commercially by two former graduate research assistants who hope to make Iowa the source for titanium powder used for manufacturing a variety of products from aerospace components to medical implants. In this Innovation article, Joel Rieken and Andy Heidloff talk about their training at Ames Laboratory and how they hope to commercialize titanium processing through their startup company, Iowa Powder Atomization Technologies.
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Ames Laboratory's Travesset featured in Science
New processes that allow nanoparticles to assemble themselves into designer materials could solve some of today's technology challenges, Alex Travesset of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory reports in the Oct. 14 issue of the journal Science.
Go to the Science article or read the ISU News Service news release Iowa State, Ames Lab physicist says nanoparticle assembly is like building with LEGOs.
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DOE Secretary Stephen Chu named R&D Scientist of the Year
Each year, the editors of R&D Magazine choose a scientist they believe embodies the spirit of research and development. For his accomplishments in both the laboratory and as a leader of the world's largest federal body devoted to energy research, Energy Secretary Steven Chu has been selected as 2011 R&D Scientist of the Year.
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