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ORNL wins 6 R&D 100s

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Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received six R&D 100 awards, presented each year by R&D Magazine in recognition of the year's most significant technological innovations.

Materials for measuring the universe

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Physicists have their own version of the "butterfly effect" that hinges on precise measurements of one of the building blocks of the universe.

July 2013 story tips

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Business Announcement

These tips are about: ENERGY – Big voltage, little package METALLURGY - Graphite foam expansion ENERGY – CoNNECT promotes savings MATERIALS - Safer batteries CLIMATE - Blogging from the Arctic.

New all-solid sulfur-based battery outperforms lithium-ion technology

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion technologies that power today's electronics.

Journal: Angewandte Chemie International Edition

June 2013 story tips

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

The following are story ideas from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory for June 2013.

Research effort deep underground could sort out cosmic-scale mysteries

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Business Announcement

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has begun delivery of germanium-76 detectors to an underground laboratory in South Dakota in a team research effort that might explain the puzzling imbalance between matter and antimatter generated by the Big Bang.

May 2013 story tips from Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

The following are story ideas from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory for May 2013.

ORNL leading study focused on afterlife of electric vehicle batteries

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Business Announcement

Once they've finished powering electric vehicles for hundreds of thousands of miles, it may not be the end of the road for automotive batteries, which researchers believe can provide continued benefits for consumers, automakers and the environment.

ORNL's awake imaging device moves diagnostics field forward

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A technology being developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory promises to provide clear images of the brains of children, the elderly and people with Parkinson's and other diseases without the use of uncomfortable or intrusive restraints.

Journal: Journal of Nuclear Medicine

ORNL microscopy uncovers 'dancing' silicon atoms in graphene

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Jumping silicon atoms are the stars of an atomic scale ballet featured in a new Nature Communications study from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Journal: Nature Communications