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TextOre license puts ORNL's Piranha in its tank

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

TextOre's licensing of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Piranha is enabling the Virginia-based company to introduce a powerful search and mining tool capable of processing large amounts of text data from the Internet.

ORNL, industry collaboration puts spotlight on solar

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Four manufacturers of solar energy components are working with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to address some of their biggest challenges.

ORNL's Pennycook named Materials Research Society Fellow

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Stephen Pennycook of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been elected to the class of 2011 fellows of the Materials Research Society.

Key plant traits yield more sugar for biofuels

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New clues about plant structure are helping researchers from the DOE's BioEnergy Science Center narrow down a large collection of poplar tree candidates and identify winners for future use in biofuel production.

Neutron analysis yields insight into bacteria for solar energy

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Structural studies of some of nature's most efficient light-harvesting systems are lighting the way for new generations of biologically inspired solar cell devices.

Story tips from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory March 2011

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Tracking and protecting information stored on an organization's network could be more secure with a system developed by a team led by Justin Beaver of ORNL's Computational Sciences and Engineering Division. Electricity generated by the ocean is gaining steam with a demonstration plant off the coast of Kona, Hawaii. Making the most of biomedical imaging data will be a huge focus for dozens of professionals participating in the 3rd Annual Biomedical Science and Engineering Conference March 15-17.

BESC scores a first with isobutanol directly from cellulose

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the quest for inexpensive biofuels, cellulose proved no match for a bioprocessing strategy and genetically engineered microbe developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center.

Simulating gasification

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A process called gasification can turn carbonaceous fuels -- coal, petroleum, or biomass -- into syngas, a cleaner-burning fuel mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

Tried and true recipes

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nuclear reactor technology research dwindled away when nuclear power fell out of favor several decades ago.

Tracking forest threats

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Alerts from an early warning system developed in part by DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could help protect forests across the US from the threats of insects, disease and wildfire.