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1-Aug-2024
Innovation Crossroads welcomes seven entrepreneurs for Cohort 2024
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryBusiness Announcement
Seven entrepreneurs comprise the next cohort of Innovation Crossroads, a Department of Energy Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program node based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The program provides energy-related startup founders from across the nation with access to ORNL’s unique scientific resources and capabilities, as well as connect them with experts, mentors and networks to accelerate their efforts to take their world-changing ideas to the marketplace.
1-Aug-2024
Five ORNL researchers complete pilot commercialization coaching program
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Five researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently completed an eight-week pilot commercialization coaching program as part of Safari, a program funded by DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions, or OTT, Practices to Accelerate the Commercialization of Technologies, or PACT.
1-Aug-2024
Energy I-Corps steeps scientists in the world of business, commercialization
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Energy I-Corps pairs teams of researchers, often with no business background or knowledge, with industry mentors through an immersive two-month training program where the scientists define their technology’s value propositions, conduct stakeholder discovery interviews and develop viable market pathways. Two ORNL teams participated in Cohort 18, which concluded in March, helping commercialize the fruits of their research.
31-Jul-2024
Nuclear physicists question origin of radioactive beryllium in the solar system
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryScientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory led studies of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, which existed when the solar system came into being some 4.5 to 5 billion years ago. They probed whether this isotope can be formed in sufficient quantities during the massive explosions of gigantic stars in their death throes, called supernovae.
- Journal
- Physical Review C
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- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
30-Jul-2024
New method detects environmentally unfriendly chemicals
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Substances called polyethylene glycols, or PEGs, are widely used in industry, medical, cosmetics and personal care products. The problem is, when they enter the environment and build up, they can harm ecosystems and natural resources. Existing approaches to detecting these environmentally unfriendly chemicals — such as chromatography or bulk mass spectrometry — fall short because they lack the necessary sensitivity. However, new research led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated an effective technique for identifying PEGs in the environment.
- Journal
- Scientific Reports
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- U.S. Department of Energy
29-Jul-2024
Frontier simulations could help build a better diamond
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The world’s fastest supercomputer helped researchers simulate synthesizing a material harder and tougher than a diamond — or any other substance on Earth. The study used Frontier to predict the likeliest strategy to synthesize such a material, thought to exist so far only within the interiors of giant exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.
22-Jul-2024
New software provides advanced grid simulation capabilities
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed new software using electromagnetic transient analysis, a type of electric grid simulation, to speed up calculations that more accurately predict how modern power electronics will affect grid operations. This provides an essential tool for planning, design and operation of the modern power grid as it incorporates new renewable power generation and electric vehicle chargers.
22-Jul-2024
Artificial intelligence tools secure tomorrow’s electric grid
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and partner institutions have launched a project to develop an innovative suite of tools that will employ machine learning algorithms for more effective cybersecurity analysis of the U.S. power grid.
19-Jul-2024
DOE opens bids to construct ORNL’s next-generation supercomputer
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryBusiness Announcement
The Department of Energy released a request for proposals today to advance its leadership in high-performance computing, inviting vendors to submit their plans for a successor to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s exascale (a quintillion or more calculations per second) supercomputer, Frontier.