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ORNL new material possible boon for lithium ion batteries

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Batteries could get a boost from a discovery that increases power, energy density and safety while dramatically reducing charge time.

Neutron analysis reveals unique atom-scale behavior of 'cobalt blue'

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Neutron scattering studies of "cobalt blue," a compound prized by artists for its lustrous blue hue, are revealing unique magnetic characteristics that could answer questions about mysterious properties in other materials.

Dow Kokam, ORNL sign agreement to boost lithium ion battery performance

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Dow Kokam and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are working together to enhance the Michigan-based company's capabilities to develop and commercialize advanced lithium ion batteries.

Supercomputers and airplanes help model hurricane structure and intensity

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Information from major hurricanes such as Katrina is being put to good use by scientists striving to understand how hurricanes intensify. A research team led by Jon Reisner of Los Alamos National Laboratory is employing the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's Jaguar supercomputer to use data from lightning detectors and even wind instruments mounted on planes flown into the eye of a hurricane to improve atmospheric models. These simulations may lead to more accurate prediction of hurricane intensities.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2011

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

These story tips include "Conquering corrosion"; "Manufacturing -- stress relief"; "Thermal energy misconception"; "Magnet power"; "Cost-effective solar cells" and "Discoveries from simulations."

ORNL microscopy generates new view of fuel cells

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A novel microscopy method is helping scientists probe the reactions that limit widespread deployment of fuel cell technologies.

Breakthrough fusion simulations shed light on plasma confinement

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A research team led by William Tang of the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is developing a clearer picture of plasma confinement properties in an experimental device that will pave the way to future commercial fusion power plants. Over the past three years using resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Tang's team has made continual improvements to tools essential for computationally solving fusion problems.

Special report highlights research at America's leadership computing facilities

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A special report highlights the accomplishments of researchers running large, complex, and often unprecedented simulations on Department of Energy Office of Science supercomputers.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2011

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

July 2011's story tips from ORNL include: "To study questions of why the universe has matter, physicists can try to create another 'Big Bang' somewhere and study how it evolves"; "Films of remarkable order"; and "Palladium power."

Supercomputers aid in understanding the basic building blocks of nature

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team of scientists collaborating under the leadership of Paul Mackenzie of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has been awarded a total of 80 million processor hours at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility for quantum chromodynamics research to help develop a unified theory of how the four forces interact. Physicists believe that more fundamental interactions must unite the presently observed forces.