3-Jun-2015 BESC, Mascoma develop revolutionary microbe for biofuel production DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peer-Reviewed Publication Biofuels pioneer Mascoma LLC and the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center have developed a revolutionary strain of yeast that could help significantly accelerate the development of biofuels from nonfood plant matter. Meeting 31st International Fuel Ethanol Workshop
3-Jun-2015 US joins the world in a new era of research at the Large Hadron Collider DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Business Announcement Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider started recording data from the highest-energy particle collisions achieved on Earth. This new data will enable an international collaboration to study the Higgs boson, search for dark matter and develop a more complete understanding of the laws of nature. Oak Ridge National Laboratory led an equipment upgrade for LHC's A Large Ion Collider Experiment, which aims to learn more about conditions of the early universe.
2-Jun-2015 Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 2015 DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peer-Reviewed Publication This tip sheet contains suitability mapping, safer landings, Rooftop A/C retrofit, and clothes dryers that could use vibrations instead of heat.
27-May-2015 The 'why' of models DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory An international team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Macquarie University, the University of Western Sydney and the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry set out to assess how two Free-Air CO2 Enrichment projects compared to eleven vegetation models that simulate various ecological processes. Instead of only benchmarking whether or not an individual model matched the experimental data, the researchers developed an 'assumption-centered' approach to evaluate why certain models performed better than others.
21-May-2015 Shape-shifting plastic DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Washington State University and the University of Idaho have developed a process to make a thermoset that can be reshaped and reused. The new plastic is a shape-memory polymer, so named because the material can 'remember' its original shape and return to it after being deformed with heat or other forces.
15-May-2015 One of HFIR's YounOne of HFIR's youngest usergest Users Impresses Staff with School Research Project DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Cameron Roberts, a recent High Flux Isotope Reactor visiting research user, stands out from the usual queue of university academics, industry R&D staff, and DOE scientists -- this user is a junior in high school.
14-May-2015 ORNL demonstrates first large-scale graphene fabrication DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peer-Reviewed Publication One of the barriers to using graphene at a commercial scale could be overcome using a method demonstrated by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
13-May-2015 Digitizing neurons DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Supercomputing resources at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will support a new initiative designed to advance how scientists digitally reconstruct and analyze individual neurons in the human brain.
12-May-2015 ORNL group leads calorimeter upgrade for Large Hadron Collider experiment DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Run-2 for the Large Hadron Collider -- the world's largest and most powerful particle collider -- began April 5 at CERN. In preparation, Thomas M. Cormier, who leads the LHC Heavy Ion group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, led an upgrade of the electromagnetic calorimeter used for LHC's experiment called ALICE (for A Large Ion Collider Experiment). This detector measures the energies of high-energy electrons and gamma rays emitted from the quark-gluon plasma.
11-May-2015 ORNL superhydrophobic glass coating offers clear benefits DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peer-Reviewed Publication A moth's eye and lotus leaf were the inspirations for an antireflective water-repelling, or superhydrophobic, glass coating that holds significant potential for solar panels, lenses, detectors, windows, weapons systems and many other products. Journal Journal of Materials Chemistry C