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ORNL microscopy finds evidence of high-temperature superconductivity in single layer

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Electron microscopy at is pointing researchers closer to the development of ultra-thin materials that transfer electrons with no resistance at relatively high temperatures.

New York cybersecurity company licenses ORNL's Data Diode

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Lock Data Solutions has licensed a technology from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed to protect a company's data from internal and external threats

Titan helps unpuzzle decades-old plutonium perplexities

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

First produced in 1940, plutonium is one of the most electronically complicated elements on Earth -- and because of its complexities, scientists have been struggling to prove the existence of its magnetic properties ever since. Finally, that struggle is over, thanks to a timely combination of theory, algorithm and code developments, neutrons experiments, and Titan -- the second-most-powerful supercomputer in the world.

Building champions: National Science Bowl offseason

DOE/Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Five-time National Science Bowl champion Mira Loma HS keeps an intense -- and pizza fueled -- training regimen through the summer and fall.

ORNL demonstrates road to supercapacitors for scrap tires

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Some of the 300 million tires discarded each year in the United States alone could be used in supercapacitors for vehicles and the electric grid using a technology developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Drexel University.

Journal: ChemSusChem

ORNL integrated energy demo connects 3-D printed building, vehicle

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research demonstration unveiled today at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory combines clean energy technologies into a 3-D printed building and vehicle to showcase a new approach to energy use, storage and consumption.

Nano-trapped molecules are potential path to quantum devices

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Single atoms or molecules imprisoned by laser light in a doughnut-shaped metal cage could unlock the key to advanced storage devices, computers and high-resolution instruments.

Journal: Physical Review A

New ORNL catalyst addresses engine efficiency, emissions quandary

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A catalyst being developed by researchers could overcome one of the key obstacles still preventing automobile engines from running more cleanly and efficiently.

Journal: Angewandte Chemie

Researchers mine information from next-generation subsurface flow simulations

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Virginia Tech researcher James McClure and his research team are using resources at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility located at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to improve understanding of transport phenomena in multiphase systems.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2015

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This tip sheet includes ORNL lamp simulates sun in tests for NASA; ORNL model examines diabetes progression; Hybrid lubricant holds great promise for engine efficiency; ORNL, partners score success with wireless charging demo; New software helps in design of quantum computers, batteries