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Newswise: CyberShake study uses Summit supercomputer to investigate earthquake hazards
Released: 12-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
CyberShake study uses Summit supercomputer to investigate earthquake hazards
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Statewide California Earthquake Center, or SCEC, are unraveling the mysteries of earthquakes by using physics-based computational models running on high-performance computing systems at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The team’s findings will provide a better understanding of seismic hazards in the Golden State.

Newswise: New process allows full recovery of starting materials from tough polymer composites
Released: 8-Feb-2024 2:20 PM EST
New process allows full recovery of starting materials from tough polymer composites
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In a win for chemistry, inventors at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed a closed-loop path for synthesizing an exceptionally tough carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer and later recovering all of its starting materials.

Newswise: ORNL's Jason DeGraw named ASHRAE Fellow
Released: 7-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
ORNL's Jason DeGraw named ASHRAE Fellow
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers, or ASHRAE, selected Jason DeGraw, a researcher with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as one of 23 members elevated to Fellow during its 2024 winter conference.

Newswise: Deciphering dynamics of electric charge
Released: 6-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
Deciphering dynamics of electric charge
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Research led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Marti Checa and Liam Collins has pioneered a groundbreaking approach, described in the journal Nature Communications, toward understanding the behavior of an electric charge at the microscopic level.

Newswise: ORNL’s Sholl elected to National Academy of Engineering
Released: 5-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
ORNL’s Sholl elected to National Academy of Engineering
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

David Sholl, director of the Transformational Decarbonization Initiative at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions in addressing large-scale chemical separation challenges, including carbon dioxide capture, using quantitative materials modeling.

Newswise: New method monitors grid stability with hydropower project signals
Released: 5-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
New method monitors grid stability with hydropower project signals
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have developed an algorithm to predict electric grid stability using signals from pumped storage hydropower projects.

Newswise: Reaping agricultural emissions solutions
Released: 2-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Reaping agricultural emissions solutions
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL climate modeling expertise contributed to a project that assessed global emissions of ammonia from croplands now and in a warmer future, while also identifying solutions tuned to local growing conditions.

Newswise: Grid electronics research to bridge gap to cleaner, more reliable power
Released: 1-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Grid electronics research to bridge gap to cleaner, more reliable power
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are looking for a happy medium to enable the grid of the future, filling a gap between high and low voltages for power electronics technology that underpins the modern U.S. electric grid.

Newswise: Employee-led giving at ORNL nets $967,871 for area nonprofits
Released: 31-Jan-2024 10:05 PM EST
Employee-led giving at ORNL nets $967,871 for area nonprofits
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Employees of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory contributed over $828,000 to local nonprofits through the lab’s employee giving programs in 2023.

Newswise: EPB, ORNL announce plans for research collaborative focused on energy resilience, quantum technology
Released: 26-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST
EPB, ORNL announce plans for research collaborative focused on energy resilience, quantum technology
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Building on $180 million in joint energy-related research, EPB and Oak Ridge National Laboratory marked 10 years of collaboration Friday with the announcement of the new Collaborative for Energy Resilience and Quantum Science, or CERQS.

Newswise: ORNL wins five Federal Laboratory Consortium awards
Released: 24-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
ORNL wins five Federal Laboratory Consortium awards
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers, staff members and licensees from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory received top honors in the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s annual awards competition for excellence in technology transfer, excellence in technology transfer innovation, outstanding researcher and regional technology transfer.

Newswise: Corning uses neutrons to reveal how ‘atomic rings’ help  predict glass performance
Released: 23-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Corning uses neutrons to reveal how ‘atomic rings’ help predict glass performance
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Conducting neutron scattering experiments at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL and Corning scientists discovered that as the number of smaller, less-stable atomic rings in a glass increases, the instability, or liquid fragility, of the glass also increases.

Newswise: Armor for steel
Released: 18-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Armor for steel
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers demonstrated that stainless steel and other metal alloys coated with hexagonal boron nitride, or hBN, exhibit non-stick or low-friction qualities along with improved long-term protection against harsh corrosion and high-temperature oxidation in air.

Newswise: Fungal ‘bouncers’ patrol plant-microbe relationship
Released: 17-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Fungal ‘bouncers’ patrol plant-microbe relationship
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A new computational framework created by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers is accelerating their understanding of who’s in, who’s out, who’s hot and who’s not in the soil microbiome, where fungi often act as bodyguards for plants, keeping friends close and foes at bay.

Newswise: Wagner named associate laboratory director for Energy Science and Technology
Released: 16-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Wagner named associate laboratory director for Energy Science and Technology
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has named Robert Wagner associate laboratory director for the Energy Science and Technology Directorate, effective Feb. 1.

Newswise: Storytelling plants may help find human remains
Released: 3-Jan-2024 3:05 PM EST
Storytelling plants may help find human remains
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jack Orebaugh, a forensic anthropology major at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, used his internship at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to find better ways to search for lost and deceased people using cameras and drones.

Newswise: Revolutionizing resource renewal: Scaling up sustainable recycling for critical materials
Released: 3-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Revolutionizing resource renewal: Scaling up sustainable recycling for critical materials
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at ORNL have developed a technique for recovering and recycling critical materials that has garnered special recognition from a peer-reviewed materials journal and received a new phase of funding for research and development.

Newswise: Tracking roadway savings from coast to coast
Released: 20-Dec-2023 3:05 PM EST
Tracking roadway savings from coast to coast
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have identified the most energy-efficient 2024 model year vehicles available in the United States, including electric and hybrids, in the latest edition of the Department of Energy’s Fuel Economy Guide.

Newswise: Computational scientists generate molecular datasets at extreme scale
Released: 20-Dec-2023 11:05 AM EST
Computational scientists generate molecular datasets at extreme scale
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team of computational scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has generated and released datasets of unprecedented scale that provide the ultraviolet visible spectral properties of over 10 million organic molecules.

Newswise: Innovation Crossroads puts a charge in battery startup, accelerating path from lab to market
Released: 20-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST
Innovation Crossroads puts a charge in battery startup, accelerating path from lab to market
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Rajan Kumar, an engineer and the chief executive officer of Ateios Systems, is a Cohort 2022 fellow in Innovation Crossroads, or IC, a two-year DOE Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program node that helps innovators in energy and advanced manufacturing technologies take their ideas from research to the marketplace.



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