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Conventional alloys, Parkin says, are made up mostly of one material such as aluminum or iron. “The idea is if you design an alloy and then you hit it with a bunch of radiation, it’s just going to scramble everything up,” he explains.

Nuclear, Education & Outreach

| Wisconsin Institute of Energy

September saw Wisconsin Energy Institute researchers across the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus examining how to keep our water and air clean featured across Wisconsin, with notes on industry collaborations making waves online. Below are media coverage highlights for Septemb

Transportation & Fuels, Electricity Systems, Solar, Storage, Energy & Society, Environmental Studies, Sustainable Agriculture, Spinoffs

| Krista Eastman

Midwest Energy News has named UW–Madison associate professor of genetics Chris Todd Hittinger and assistant professor of life sciences communication Neil Stenhouse to its “40 Under 40” list.

Transportation & Fuels, Biofuels & Bioproducts, Plant Genetics & Breeding, Energy & Society, Science Communication

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The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $12.5 million to the University of Wisconsin–Madison to develop an integrated facility that will expand the frontier of astrophysical plasma research.

Electricity Systems

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University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, led by Materials Science and Engineering Professor Xudong Wang and graduate student Yanhao Yu, and their collaborators at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Professors Yue Zhang and Zheng Zhang, are reporting a nanote

Electricity Systems, Solar

| Eric Hamilton

Plants that produce their own nitrogen would require less fertilizer, which would save farmers money and reduce the environmental pollution caused by fertilizer runoff into waterways.

Environmental Studies, Sustainable Agriculture