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19-Jul-2024

ORNL economist honored at international hydropower conference

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Researcher Rocio Uria-Martinez is the lead author of an influential study published by the Department of Energy's Water Power Technology Office detailing hydropower industry trends.

Meeting: Hydrovision International

18-Jul-2024

Free 3D-printing datasets enable analysis, confidence in printed parts

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has publicly released a new set of additive manufacturing data that industry and researchers can use to evaluate and improve the quality of 3D-printed components. The breadth of the datasets can significantly boost efforts to verify the quality of additively manufactured parts using only information gathered during printing, without requiring expensive and time-consuming post-production analysis.

17-Jul-2024

Game-changing quantum chemistry calculations push new boundaries of exascale Frontier

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers conduct largest, most accurate molecular dynamics simulations to date of two million correlated electrons using Frontier, the world’s fastest supercomputer. The simulation, which exceed an exaflop using full double precision, is 1,000 times greater in size and speed than any quantum chemistry simulation of it's kind.

Funder: Advanced Scientific Computing Research

12-Jul-2024

Along shifting coastlines, scientists bring the future into focus

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In the wet, muddy places where America’s rivers and lands meet the sea, scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are unearthing clues to better understand how these vital landscapes are evolving under climate change.

Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

11-Jul-2024

‘Check out’ that power

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have opened a new virtual library where visitors can check out waveforms instead of books.

The Grid Event Signature Library is an open-access online collection of datasets containing waveforms, which are visual representations of behaviors of the electric grid.

Journal: IEEE Access

11-Jul-2024

Wang named recipient of the 2024 American Welding Society Professor Koichi Masubuchi Award

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Yiyu (Jason) Wang, an R&D associate staff member in the Materials Science and Technology Division at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will receive the Professor Koichi Masubuchi Award from the American Welding Society, or AWS. He will be presented with the honor at the 2024 AWS Annual Meeting in October in Orlando, Florida.

10-Jul-2024

Banana fiber provides ’a-peeling’ fodder for undergraduate research

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Participants in the SM2ART Research Experience for Undergraduates program got the chance to see what life is like in a research setting. REU participant Brianna Greer studied banana fibers as a reinforcing material in making lightweight parts for cars and bicycles.

10-Jul-2024

ARPA-E IGNIITE award launches new initiatives of ORNL researchers Yang and Westover

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Guang Yang and Andrew Westover, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have been selected to join the first cohort of DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E, Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2024, or IGNIITE 2024, program. IGNIITE supports early career scientists and engineers in their work to convert innovative ideas into impactful energy technologies.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

9-Jul-2024

Engineering eco-friendly solvents

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have developed a method leveraging artificial intelligence to accelerate the identification of environmentally friendly solvents for industrial carbon capture, biomass processing, rechargeable batteries and other applications.

1-Jul-2024

Scientists probe chilling behavior of promising solid-state cooling material

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has bridged a knowledge gap in atomic-scale heat motion. This new understanding holds promise for enhancing materials to advance an emerging technology called solid-state cooling.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy