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6-May-2024

Quietly making noise: Measuring differential privacy could balance meaningful analytics and healthcare data security

ORNL researchers Vandy Tombs and Robert Bridges have developed a new method that improves on the standard method of differential privacy to allow healthcare data sharing while maintaining high levels of privacy.

3-May-2024

Tweaking isotopes sheds light on promising approach to engineer semiconductors

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated that small changes in the isotopic content of thin semiconductor materials can influence their optical and electronic properties, possibly opening the way to new and advanced designs with the semiconductors.

Journal: Science Advances

2-May-2024

New eco-friendly lubricant additives protect turbine equipment, waterways

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed lubricant additives that protect both water turbine equipment and the surrounding environment.

Journal: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

1-May-2024

Researchers offer US roadmap to close the carbon cycle

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and six other Department of Energy national laboratories have developed a United States-based perspective for achieving net-zero carbon emissions. The roadmap was recently published in the journal Nature Reviews Chemistry.

Journal: Nature Reviews Chemistry

1-May-2024

At the Climate READi workshop: Resilient power systems in the context of climate change

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions joined industry stakeholders in exploring solutions for power grid climate resilience at the Climate READi Southeast workshop co-hosted by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and ORNL’s Water Power Program on April 10-11.

Funder: Electric Power Research Institute, ORNL Water Power Program

30-Apr-2024

Adaptable IO System delivers data for high-performance computing science at ORNL

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Since its initial development in 2008 at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the open-source Adaptable IO System framework has become an essential tool for high-performance computing, or HPC, simulations around the world with an ever-evolving array of features and users.

Funder: Advanced Scientific Computing Research

29-Apr-2024

Better Plants program leads to carbon reduction, cost savings for US manufacturing

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Helping hundreds of manufacturing industries across the United States increase energy efficiency requires a balance of teaching and training, blended with scientific guidance and technical expertise. It’s a formula for success that researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been providing to the Department of Energy’s Better Plants program for more than a decade.

26-Apr-2024

Curran named Fellow of SAE, ASME

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Scott Curran, group leader for Fuel Science and Engine Technologies Research at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named a Fellow of SAE International and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, or ASME.

26-Apr-2024

Divining peak groundwater

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Reports and Proceedings

New research predicts peak groundwater extraction for key basins around the globe by the year 2050. The map indicates groundwater storage trends for Earth’s 37 largest aquifers using data from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory GRACE satellite.

Journal: Nature Sustainability

25-Apr-2024

Unconventional technology enhances composites important to automotive, aerospace and renewable energy industries

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that demonstrates how fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials used in the automotive, aerospace and renewable energy industries can be made stronger and tougher to better withstand mechanical or structural stresses over time.

Journal: Advanced Science