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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

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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.

Oak Ridge establishes carbon fiber composites consortium

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Business Announcement

Fourteen companies have agreed to join with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to establish the Oak Ridge Carbon Fiber Composites Consortium, which will work to accelerate the development, demonstration and commercial application of new low-cost carbon fiber and composites materials in many different industry sectors.

Hydrogen may be key to growth of high-quality graphene

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new approach to growing graphene greatly reduces problems that have plagued researchers in the past and clears a path to the crystalline form of graphite's use in sophisticated electronic devices of tomorrow.

Journal: ACS Nano

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

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

July 2011's story tips from ORNL include: "Nanoscale robots that can flow through blood may yet be a possibility"; "Making Industry Part of the Climate Solution"; "New band magnetism"; "Clean energy production"; and "Thermochemical degradation of plant materials."

It takes 3 to tango

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers who want to understand how and why a nucleus hangs together as it does must take into account the complex interactions known as the three-body force. This conclusion, drawn from simulations on America's most powerful supercomputer, is outlined in the May 20, 2011, edition of Physical Review Letters.

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

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory's recent research is highlighted in this series of news tips.

ORNL researchers win 7 R&D 100 awards

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Grant and Award Announcement

Scientists and engineers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received seven R&D 100 Awards presented by R&D Magazine.

Packing the ions

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Drexel University's Yury Gogotsi and colleagues recently needed an atom's-eye view of a promising supercapacitor material to sort out experimental results that were exciting but appeared illogical. That view was provided by a research team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory computational chemists Bobby Sumpter and Jingsong Huang and computational physicist Vincent Meunier.