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14-Feb-2017
Kalinin, Paranthaman elected Materials Research Society fellows
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryGrant and Award Announcement
Two researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sergei Kalinin and Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, have been elected fellows of the Materials Research Society.
9-Feb-2017
ORNL wins four FLC technology transfer awards
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryGrant and Award Announcement
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers win four Federal Laboratory Consortium awards.
2-Feb-2017
Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 2017
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
This tip sheet includes: Vacuum insulation panels prove cost-effective solution for DOD; ORNL noise filter puts end to unwanted EMI; NYC focus of ORNL green commuting study; ORNL process speeds battery production process; and ORNL study sheds new light on traditional welding technique.
2-Feb-2017
Supercomputing, experiment combine for first look at magnetism of real nanoparticle
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
A multi-institution team simulated, for the first time, atomic-level magnetic properties in regions of a real nanoparticle based on experimental data. UCLA and Berkeley Lab's cutting-edge imaging and 3-D reconstruction techniques combined with the 27-petaflop Titan supercomputer at OLCF and the award-winning LSMS magnetic structure code, developed at ORNL, enabled researchers to model the magnetic properties of over a thousand atoms of an iron-platinum nanoparticle -- a material that has applications for next-generation magnetic storage devices.
- Journal
- Nature
- Funder
- DOE/Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
1-Feb-2017
Researchers flip script for Li-Ion electrolytes to simulate better batteries
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
A team led by the California Institute of Technology's Thomas Miller used the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to identify new electrolyte materials with promising properties for lithium-ion conduction in batteries.
- Journal
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
1-Feb-2017
ORNL researchers break data transfer efficiency record
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers have set a new record in the transfer of information via superdense coding, a process by which the properties of particles like photons, protons and electrons are used to store as much information as possible.
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
1-Feb-2017
The shape of melting in two dimensions
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
As part of her team's research into matter's tendency to self-organize, Sharon Glotzer of the University of Michigan ran a series of hard particle simulations to study melting in two-dimensional (2-D) systems. Specifically, the team explored how particle shape affects the physics of a 2-D solid-to-fluid melting transition.
1-Feb-2017
Neutrons identify critical details in bacterial enzyme implicated in gastric cancer
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Neutron analysis at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is helping researchers better understand a key enzyme found in a bacterium known to cause stomach cancer. Understanding the details of this enzyme, and thus the Helicobacter pylori bacteria's metabolism and biological pathways, could be central to developing drugs that act against H. pylori, but that do not attack the stomach's useful bacteria.
- Journal
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health
27-Jan-2017
Haslam visits ORNL to highlight state's role in discovering tennessine
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryBusiness Announcement
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam visited the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory today to congratulate the ORNL team involved in the discovery of the element tennessine, named in recognition of the vital contributions of the state of Tennessee to the international search for new superheavy elements.
- Funder
- U.S. Dept. of Energy's Office of Science