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ORNL chemical sampling interface features simplicity, speed

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In mere seconds, a device that can identify and characterize a solid or liquid sample.

Journal: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

DOE event marks beginning of landmark ecosystem experiment

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Scientists are getting a glimpse of the future with a large-scale experiment designed to answer questions about how carbon-rich peatlands will respond to projected warming of the climate and increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Carbon number crunching

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A booming economy and population led China to emerge in 2006 as the global leader in fossil-fuel carbon emissions, a distinction it still maintains. But exactly how much carbon China releases has been a topic of debate, with recent estimates varying by as much as 15 percent.

Viral comparisons

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

An Oak Ridge National Laboratory team of comparative genomics and computational science researchers compared approximately 4,000 complete virus genomes downloaded from a public database known as GenBank. By compressing the sequence files, the team created a virus dendrogram that maps out the relationships among all the different virus families.

BESC creates microbe that bolsters isobutanol production

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Another barrier to commercially viable biofuels from sources other than corn has fallen with the engineering of a microbe that improves isobutanol yields by a factor of 10.

Journal: Metabolic Engineering

The pressure is on

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers with Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source have developed technology to squeeze materials with a million times the pressure of the earth's atmosphere while studying them with neutrons. When they bombard these materials with neutrons, the materials provide an unprecedented picture of the changing nature of matter under extreme pressure.

Eyes on the prize

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Recently, the Department of Energy Office of Science's Nanoscale Science Research Centers at Argonne, Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos/Sandia and Oak Ridge national laboratories jointly organized a workshop at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to discuss opportunities and challenges as imaging and data sciences merge. Those efforts will likely aid the Materials Genome Initiative, which aims to speed new materials to the global marketplace.

Critical Materials Institute rare-earth recycling invention licensed to US Rare Earths

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A new technology that aids in the recycling, recovery and extraction of rare earth minerals has been licensed to US Rare Earths, Inc.

New ORNL hybrid microscope offers unparalleled capabilities

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A microscope being developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will allow scientists studying biological and synthetic materials to simultaneously observe chemical and physical properties on and beneath the surface.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology

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

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This tip sheet includes: intelligent agent-based software to be showcased at Smithsonian; Supercomputer speeding design, deployment of lightweight powertrain materials; ORNL process produces hydrogen from switchgrass; Sampling probe system identifies bioactive compounds in fungi and ORNL technique could accelerate advances in materials science.