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

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This tip sheet includes: High octane rating makes ethanol attractive; ORNL has potential solution to congestion, collisions; ORNL using advanced methods to discover new materials; ORNL hosting molten salt reactor workshop; and Virginia Tech using ORNL computing resources for energy exploration

ORNL researchers find 'greener' way to assemble materials for solar applications

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The efficiency of solar cells depends on precise engineering of polymers that assemble into films 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. Today, formation of that polymer assembly requires solvents that can harm the environment, but scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a 'greener' way to control the assembly of photovoltaic polymers in water using a surfactant -- a detergent-like molecule -- as a template.

Journal: Nanoscale
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

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