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Letting in the light

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is developing a low-cost, transparent, anti-soiling coating for solar reflectors to optimize energy efficiency while lowering operating and maintenance costs and avoiding negative environmental impacts.

ORNL study advances quest for better superconducting materials

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nearly 30 years after the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, many questions remain, but an Oak Ridge National Laboratory team is providing insight that could lead to better superconductors.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

ORNL-UT researchers invent 'sideways' approach to 2-D hybrid

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have pioneered a new technique for forming a two-dimensional, single-atom sheet of two different materials with a seamless boundary.

Journal: Science

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2014

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This release focuses on: "The road to efficiency"; "Zero Energy Ready Homes"; and "Cross-disciplinary research is yielding new insight into the carbon cycle, contaminated soils and soil fertility."

Supercomputers help ORNL researchers identify key molecular switch that controls cell behavior

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

If scientists can control cellular functions such as movement and development, they can cripple cells and pathogens that are causing disease in the body.

Journal: Nature Communications

Titan simulates earthquake physics necessary for safer building design

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers with the Southern California Earthquake Center are using ORNL's Titan supercomputer to prepare the state for its next big earthquake.

Simulation shuffles protons and electrons

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Plants solved the solar energy challenge billions of years ago, with photosynthesis.

ORNL devises recipe to fine-tune diameter of silica rods

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By controlling the temperature of silica rods as they grow, researchers at the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could be setting the stage for advances in anti-reflective solar cells, computer monitors, TV screens, eye glasses and more.

Journal: Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, December 2013

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

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

Chaotic physics in ferroelectrics hints at brain-like computing

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Unexpected behavior in ferroelectric materials explored by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory supports a new approach to information storage and processing.

Journal: Nature Physics