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Haslam visits ORNL to highlight state's role in discovering tennessine

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business 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

Connecting the bytes

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL computer scientist focuses on maximizing utility of Titan.

Largest Populus SNP dataset holds promise for biofuels, materials, metabolites

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have released the largest-ever single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) dataset of genetic variations in poplar trees, information useful to plant scientists as well as researchers in the fields of biofuels, materials science, and secondary plant metabolism.

Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science
Meeting: The Plant and Animal Genome XXV Conference (PAG)

Crystallization method offers new option for carbon capture from ambient air

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a simple, reliable process to capture carbon dioxide directly from ambient air, offering a new option for carbon capture and storage strategies to combat global warming.

Journal: Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2017

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers identify patterns that could be valuable resource for superconductivity research; ORNL researchers developing approaches to preserve forests, wildlife; ORNL supercomputer helping scientists push boundaries; New measurement technique opens pathway to new graphene-based energy, electronic applications; and ORNL cryogenic memory cell circuit could advance pathway to quantum computing.

Ceramic matrix composites take flight in LEAP jet engine

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Ceramic matrix composite (CMC) materials are tough, lightweight and capable of withstanding temperatures 300-400 degrees F hotter than metal alloys can endure. A quarter-century ago, the US Department of Energy began a program, led by DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to support US development of CMC materials. This year, LEAP, a new aircraft engine, became the first widely deployed CMC-containing product. CFM International, a 50/50 joint venture of Safran and GE, manufactures LEAP.

Biology and neutrons collide to unlock secrets of fish ear bones

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientific discovery can come from anywhere, but few researchers can say the answers to their questions would come from the pea-sized bones in the head of a six-foot-long, 200-pound prehistoric freshwater fish.

Neutron diffraction probes forms of carbon dioxide in extreme environments

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Through a Deep Carbon Observatory collaboration, Adam Makhluf of the University of California, Los Angeles's Earth, Space and Planetary Science Department and Chris Tulk of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Chemical and Engineering Materials Division are using neutrons to study the fundamental role carbon dioxide plays in Earth's carbon cycle, especially in the composition of carbon reservoirs in the deep earth and the evolution of the carbon cycle over time.

Funder: Sloan Foundation, US Department of Energy/ Basic Energy Science

Neutrons identify key ingredients of the quantum spin liquid recipe

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Tennessee and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutrons to examine the origins of unusual magnetic behavior in a rare earth-based metal oxide, ytterbium-magnesium-gallium-tetraoxide (YbMgGaO4). The material, discovered in 2015, is known to have strange magnetic properties, putting it in a unique category of materials classified as quantum spin liquids.

Journal: Nature Physics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Georgia Institute of Technology, National Science Foundation

Jefferson Lab-NVIDIA collaboration uses Titan's to boost subatomic particle research

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Jefferson Lab's Robert Edwards has been using computation to inform GlueX experiments at Jefferson Lab as well as corroborate experimental findings.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: SC16