A Strategy to Accelerate Cutting-Edge Materials Innovation

In 2011, President Obama launched a Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), a broad, cross-sector effort to work toward doubling the pace of advanced materials discovery, innovation, manufacture, and commercialization in the United States.

Instrument set to revolutionize materials characterization

A team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, Ill., and Ohio University, Athens, devised a powerful technique that simultaneously resolves the chemical characterization and topography of nanoscale materials down to the height of a single atom.