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Skip to main content EFree Energy Frontier Research in Extreme Environments Center About EFree About EFree Message from the Director Organization Facilities Carnegie Facilities Brillouin Spectroscopy Lab Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Lab Diamond Cell Experiment Preparation Lab Diamond Cell Gas Loading Lab High-pressure Optical Lab Laser heating/High P-T Spectroscopy Lab HP-NSLS Facilities HPCAT Facilities SNAP Job Opportunities Postdoctoral Associate Positions at EFree EFree Reports Twitter EFree Projects New Nanophase Carbons New Solar Materials Novel Electron Transport in Light Element Materials Next Generation Porous Materials Exploratory Projects Science Highlights Science Highlights People Highlights Archived Articles People Management & Executive Committee University Partners Technical Coordinators Students/Postdocs Affiliated Scientists - Carnegie Affiliated Scientists - Other Institutions External Advisory Committee Publications EFree Only Publications All EFree Publications EFree Reports EFree Relevant Documents Outreach DOE Highlight Slides EFree Highlight Talks External Presentations Technology Transfer Outreach Archive Log-in Previous Pause Next Lanthanum Superhydrides Synthesized January 4th, 2018 EFree theorists led by Postdoctoral Associate Hanyu Liu predicted that by tailoring the pressure and composition of a mixture of hydrogen and rare-earth elements, exotic metals would be created, some of which would remain superconducting to nearly room temperature. Their results were published in H. Liu et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA... A high-capacity electrode for rechargeable metal hydride batteries October 20th, 2017 Over the past several decades, the current state-of-the-art alloys for metal hydride (MH) batteries have been LaNi5 based AB5 materials with a reversible capacity of 300 mAh/g. Since the advent of MH batteries, researchers have been searching for early transition metal hydrides to replace AB5 alloys. Replacing the heavy AB5 alloys with... Efficient adsorption of carbon dioxide by a superactivated carbon October 20th, 2017 A fast, reversible, and energy efficient sorbent for the separation of carbon dioxide from mixed gas streams has been sought for energy applications in purifying flue gas and upgrading biogas. Biogas is a methane-rich gas evolved from decomposing organic matter at farms, landfills and wastewater treatment plants. While thousands of... Expanding High-Pressure Neutron Diffraction Applications September 21st, 2017 Extreme conditions research cannot be accomplished without state-of-the-art instruments. Thus, tools must be improved in order to access new domains and to expand the range of properties measured. In high pressure neutron diffraction, for example, one limitation that sample sizes need to be much larger than is the case for x-ray... EFree Science Presented at EFRC PI Meeting August 11th, 2017 The 2017 EFRC PI meeting was held at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington DC on July 24-25. After plenary lectures on the possibilities for exascale computing and the future of quantum information science, the meeting featured highlight presentations from each of the EFRC, CMS and Hub directors, along with technical talks and... See more... People Highlights Fultz Elected to APS Fellowship LinkedIn group created for DOE BES - Early Career Network (ECN) Hoffmann Honored at ACS Symposium Guerette Participates in DOE Early Career Network See More... Student/Postdoc Spotlight Bo Chen - Postdoc, Cornell See More... Program Updates American Conference on Neutron Scattering - Call for Papers Quantum Summer School - Registration Open EFRC Community Newsletter - Summer 2017 EFree Joins EFRC "Silver Team" See More......