Zhiyu Hu believes it is possible to match nature's highly efficient method to convert chemicals into thermal energy at room temperature, and he has data and a published paper to support his theory.
1) PHYSICS -- Stirring the Big Bang soup. 2) CHEMISTRY -- Molecules in jail. 3) ENERGY -- Heat pumps and more. 4) ENERGY -- Nuclear fuel study. 5) ENVIRONMENT -- Tracking truck emissions.
1) TRANSPORTATION -- Securing Russian railcars. 2) MATERIALS -- Cooling it with magnetism. 3) AUTOMOBILES -- Silicon carbide power. 4) COMPUTING -- Maximizing computational power.
The Department of Energy has awarded UT-Battelle an overall performance rating of "Outstanding" for the company's management of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The rating is the highest awarded by DOE and comes after an evaluation of ORNL's performance from October 2003 through September 2004.
Jeffrey Wadsworth, director of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Millions of people at risk of becoming blind could one day be helped by an Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology originally intended to understand semiconductor defects.
1) MATERIALS -- A layer at a time. 2) HOMELAND SECURITY -- Safe harbors. 3) GEOGRAPHY -- Case closed. 4) GENETICS -- Biosystems approach to skull disorder.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Air Force have launched a program to help Air Force personnel upgrade their technical knowledge and skills and raise their awareness of potentially useful ORNL research and technology.
1) FORENSICS -- The telltale tree. 2) MATERIALS -- Next-generation steel. 3) NANOSCIENCE -- On a butterfly's wings. 4) SENSORS -- Advanced fuel cells.
Christmas costs can make us all a bit less jolly, but there are a number of ways even Ole St. Nick can save money throughout the year and help offset the high cost of the holiday.
Dr. James B. Roberto, deputy director for science and technology at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the National Materials Advancement Award from the Federation of Materials Societies.
1) MATERIALS -- Cool under pressure; 2) MATERIALS -- Better distributed energy; 3) PHYSICS -- Stellar nova simulations; 4) ENERGY -- Cleaner, cheaper coal power.
Four researchers working at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are among the 308 to be elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Patients with cancers previously next to untreatable may have new hope because of a license agreement between Isotron of Norcross, Ga., and UT-Battelle, which manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Four new instruments installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor this year make the facility an even more attractive destination for researchers around the world.
1) ENERGY EFFICIENCY -- Doing the Texas two-step; 2) COMPUTING -- Seeing is believing; 3) MATERIALS -- Beneath the surface; 4) TRANSPORTATION -- Next-generation sensors; 5) ENVIRONMENT -- Nature's healing hand.
A technology that can scan living small animals and other biological objects has been honored as project of the year by the Southeastern Region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium.
An award-winning system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to clean up perchlorate pollution is now also helping scientists determine whether the contamination is natural or man-made.
1) FUSION -- A twisted doughnut. 2) GEOGRAPHY -- A vision for security. 3) BUILDINGS -- After the flood. 4) BIOLOGY -- Mimicking nature. 5) ENERGY EFFICIENCY -- Frostless in frost.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced today that Vanderbilt University has joined the laboratory's "core universities." ORNL's core universities assume a scientific leadership role in working with the laboratory to help shape the research agenda for more than one billion dollars in science and technology programs.
With the recent "warm commissioning" of its linear accelerator, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) has passed a crucial test and milestone on its way to completion in 2006.
Johney Boyd Green Jr., a researcher with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been recognized as one of the 50 most important black research scientists in America.
Laetitia Delmau of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been named by Technology Review magazine as one of the world's top young innovators. Delmau joins the "TR100" group of 100 selected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's science publication.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers, using a state-of-the-art microscope and new computerized imaging technology, have pushed back the barrier of how small we can see--to a record, atom-scale 0.6 angstrom.
Fundamental questions that particle physicists have pondered for decades might be answered when a $9.2 million neutron physics beam line is built at the Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source on Chestnut Ridge.
Jian Shen of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a Department of Energy recipient of the latest Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), presented today in a White House ceremony.
1) SIMULATION -- New generation optoelectronics. 2) ENERGY -- An untapped resource. 3) TRANSPORTATION -- A road to better highways. 4) AIR QUALITY -- Immediate analysis. 5) CHEMISTRY -- The big squeeze.
You might say some scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory hang with a fast crowd. More and more, NASCAR teams seeking a racing edge are making pit stops at ORNL's High Temperature Materials Laboratory for high-tech tips to better performance.
Hundreds of barges, tow boats and recreational craft passing through Watts Bar on the Tennessee River will be monitored for nuclear material as part of an effort to thwart terrorists.
The Department of Homeland Security's recent selection of Memphis as a "best practices" model for high-tech security measures could speed the implementation of similar technologies in other cities.
1) Transmission: Grains of insight into the grid; 2)Energy: More bang for the buck; 3)Biology: Good vibrations
An electricity meter that sometimes runs backwards is just one of the cool aspects of near-zero-energy homes.
Thomas Lee Ferrell of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society for his invention of the photon scanning tunneling microscope.
Tuan Vo-Dinh, a UT-Battelle corporate fellow, director of the Center for Advanced Biomedical Photonics, and leader of the Advanced Biomedical Science and Technology Group in the Life Sciences Division, has been elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
After just two months, a partnership between ORNL and the Institute at Biltmore has hit full stride in support of entrepreneurs and economic development in Western North Carolina.
1) MATERIALS -- Power to Saturn; 2) PHYSICS -- Old in the tooth; 3) CHEMISTRY -- Photons on missions.
A technology with proven environmental, forensics and medical applications has received a shot in the arm because of an invention.
Researchers and engineers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won three R&D 100 Awards, pushing their national lab-leading total to 119 since the awards began in 1963.
Schools, hospitals, dormitories and theaters could be a lot more comfortable during steamy summers because of a partnership between Oak Ridge National Laboratory and industry.
Thousands of special agents created at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are on missions 24 hours a day as they work to uncover threats to national security.
1) Materials -- Tricking the sun; 2) Superconductors -- Solving a mystery; 3) Environment -- Mapping carbon flux
A study might help explain whether there is a relationship between inhalation of small particles, reduced heart rate variability and death.
Touting potential economic benefits to Tennessee, the state's head of economic development helped dedicate a new $10 million facility Friday to house the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), one of the world's most powerful research reactors, is marking a milestone this month -- its 400th fuel cycle since it began operation in 1966.
1) Health -- Environmental respiration risks; 2) Automobiles -- Sparking a revolution; 3) Chemistry -- Sophisticated separations
Researchers have developed a nanoscale technology for investigating biomolecular processes in single living cells. The new technology enables researchers to monitor and study cellular signaling networks, including the first observation of programmed cell death in a single live cell.
Spring's lush green lawns and hot pink shoes contribute at least in a small way to the world's total carbon picture, say researchers.
New atom-scale images promise to provide researchers the ability to predict and model the properties and behavior of advanced ceramic materials.
Scientists and researchers around the nation are closer to being connected via high-speed networks that live up to their promise because of an agreement between ORNL and National LambdaRail.
1) Protective gear -- High-tech for first responders; 2) Chemistry -- Self-organizing polymers; 3) Space -- Fuel for the future; 4) Automobiles -- Look ma, no belts.
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