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Newswise: Zeroing in on EV batteries with more storage and faster charging
Released: 20-Oct-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Zeroing in on EV batteries with more storage and faster charging
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Currently, the biggest hurdle for electric vehicles, or EVs, is the development of advanced battery technology to extend driving range, safety and reliability.New research has shown how a novel lithium-based electrolyte material (Li9N2Cl3) can be used to develop solid-state batteries that charge faster and store more energy than conventional designs.

Newswise: ORNL scientists close the cycle on recycling mixed plastics
Released: 20-Oct-2023 2:05 PM EDT
ORNL scientists close the cycle on recycling mixed plastics
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used carefully planned chemical design, neutron scattering and high-performance computing to help develop a new catalytic recycling process. The catalyst selectively and sequentially deconstructs multiple polymers in mixed plastics into pristine monomers. The new organocatalyst has proven to efficiently and quickly deconstruct multiple polymers — in around two hours. Such polymers include those used in materials such as safety goggles (polycarbonates), foams (polyurethanes), water bottles (polyethylene terephthalates) and ropes or fishing nets (polyamides), which together comprise more than 30% of global plastic production. Until now, no single catalyst has been shown to be effective on all four of these polymers.

Newswise: Electrons are quick-change artists in molten salts, chemists show
Released: 19-Oct-2023 4:05 PM EDT
Electrons are quick-change artists in molten salts, chemists show
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In a finding that helps elucidate how molten salts in advanced nuclear reactors might behave, scientists have shown how electrons interacting with the ions of the molten salt can form three states with different properties.

Newswise: Neutrons see stress in 3D-printed parts, advancing additive manufacturing
Released: 16-Oct-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Neutrons see stress in 3D-printed parts, advancing additive manufacturing
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Using neutrons to see the additive manufacturing process at the atomic level, scientists have shown that they can measure strain in a material as it evolves and track how atoms move in response to stress.

Newswise: Scientists illuminate the mechanics of solid-state batteries
Released: 7-Oct-2023 9:05 AM EDT
Scientists illuminate the mechanics of solid-state batteries
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a framework for designing solid-state batteries, or SSBs, with mechanics in mind. Their paper, published in Science, reviewed how these factors change SSBs during their cycling.

Newswise: ORNL is poised to have a major role in the future of nuclear physics
Released: 6-Oct-2023 4:05 PM EDT
ORNL is poised to have a major role in the future of nuclear physics
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The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a bastion of nuclear physics research for the past 80 years, is poised to strengthen its programs and service to the United States over the next decade if national recommendations of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, or NSAC, are enacted.

Newswise: Researchers 3D print moon rover wheel prototype with NASA
Released: 6-Oct-2023 12:00 PM EDT
Researchers 3D print moon rover wheel prototype with NASA
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with NASA, are taking additive manufacturing to the final frontier by 3D printing the same kind of wheel as the design used by NASA for its robotic lunar rover, demonstrating the technology for specialized parts needed for space exploration.

Newswise: ORNL, Tennessee State University to partner on research education programs
Released: 6-Oct-2023 10:10 AM EDT
ORNL, Tennessee State University to partner on research education programs
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Tennessee State University have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen research cooperation and provide diverse undergraduate students enriching educational research opportunities at the lab.

Newswise: ORNL, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley partner to provide students research, mentorship opportunities / 

ORNL e UTGRV establecen colaboración para fortalecer la investigación y educación de estudiantes
Released: 6-Oct-2023 10:05 AM EDT
ORNL, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley partner to provide students research, mentorship opportunities / ORNL e UTGRV establecen colaboración para fortalecer la investigación y educación de estudiantes
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The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, known as UTRGV, have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen research cooperation and establish a collaborative program for undergraduate research and education, further cementing relationships and collaboration between the lab and minority-serving institutions. El Laboratorio Nacional de Oak Ridge del Departamento de Energía del EEUU, o DOE, y la Universidad de Texas del Valle del Rio Grande, o UTRGV, han firmado un Memorándum de Entendimiento comprometiéndose a fortalecer la cooperación en la investigación científica y establecer un programa colaborativo para estudiantes de pregrado.

Newswise: ORNL to lead new center to create sustainable chemical industry processes
Released: 29-Sep-2023 7:05 PM EDT
ORNL to lead new center to create sustainable chemical industry processes
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been selected to lead an Energy Earthshot Research Center, or EERC, focused on developing chemical processes that use sustainable methods instead of burning fossil fuels to radically reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions to stem climate change and limit the crisis of a rapidly warming planet.

Newswise:Video Embedded light-activated-acid-drives-energy-efficient-on-demand-release-of-captured-co2
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Released: 28-Sep-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Light-activated acid drives energy-efficient, on-demand release of captured CO2
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Using light instead of heat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers found a way to release carbon dioxide from a solvent used in direct air capture to trap this greenhouse gas.

Newswise: ORNL supports EPA human health risk assessment calculators, databases
Released: 27-Sep-2023 10:05 AM EDT
ORNL supports EPA human health risk assessment calculators, databases
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

For 25 years, scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have used their broad expertise in human health risk assessment, ecology, radiation protection, toxicology and information management to develop widely used tools and data for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of the agency’s Superfund program.

Newswise: Q&A with Xiaohan Yang: Transforming plants for a cleaner future
Released: 27-Sep-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Q&A with Xiaohan Yang: Transforming plants for a cleaner future
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientist Xiaohan Yang’s research at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory focuses on transforming plants to make them better sources of renewable energy and carbon storage.

Newswise: ORNL launches Center for AI Security Research to study AI’s impacts on society, security
26-Sep-2023 7:30 AM EDT
ORNL launches Center for AI Security Research to study AI’s impacts on society, security
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced the establishment of its Center for AI Security Research, or CAISER, to address threats already present as governments and industries around the world adopt artificial intelligence and take advantage of the benefits it promises in data processing, operational efficiencies and decision-making.

Newswise: World-class neutron source takes a break for major Proton Power Upgrade
Released: 26-Sep-2023 12:30 PM EDT
World-class neutron source takes a break for major Proton Power Upgrade
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory — already the world’s most powerful accelerator-based neutron source — will be on a planned hiatus through June 2024 as crews work to upgrade the facility. Much of the work — part of the facility’s Proton Power Upgrade project — will involve building a connector between the accelerator and the planned Second Target Station at SNS.

Newswise: Benefit breakdown, 3D printed vs. wood molds
Released: 21-Sep-2023 4:05 PM EDT
Benefit breakdown, 3D printed vs. wood molds
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have conducted a comprehensive life cycle, cost and carbon emissions analysis on 3D-printed molds for precast concrete and determined the method is economically beneficial compared to conventional wood molds.

Newswise: Researchers advance topological superconductors for quantum computing
Released: 20-Sep-2023 4:10 PM EDT
Researchers advance topological superconductors for quantum computing
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Quantum computers process information using quantum bits, or qubits, based on fragile, short-lived quantum mechanical states. To make qubits robust for applications, researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory sought to create a new material system.

Newswise: New recycling method fights plastic waste
Released: 20-Sep-2023 4:05 PM EDT
New recycling method fights plastic waste
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Almost 80% of plastic in the waste stream ends up in landfills or accumulates in the environment. Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have developed a technology that converts a conventionally unrecyclable mixture of plastic waste into useful chemicals, presenting a new strategy in the toolkit to combat global plastic waste.

Newswise: From atomic nuclei to astrophysics, collaborative program builds basis for scientific discoveries
Released: 18-Sep-2023 5:05 PM EDT
From atomic nuclei to astrophysics, collaborative program builds basis for scientific discoveries
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is leading two nuclear physics research projects within the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing, or SciDAC, program from the Department of Energy Office of Science. One of the projects is called Nuclear Computational Low-Energy Initiative, or NUCLEI. The other is Exascale Nuclear Astrophysics for FRIB, or ENAF.

Newswise: Scientists uncovered mystery of important material for semiconductors at the surface
Released: 14-Sep-2023 4:05 PM EDT
Scientists uncovered mystery of important material for semiconductors at the surface
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team of scientists with Oak Ridge National Laboratory has investigated the behavior of hafnium oxide, or hafnia, because of its potential for use in novel semiconductor applications.



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