News By Location

7-May-2024

Study reveals flaw in long-accepted approximation used in water simulations

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Computational scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have published a study in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation that questions a long-accepted factor in simulating the molecular dynamics of water: the 2 femtosecond (one quadrillionth of a second) time step. 

Journal

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

7-May-2024

ORNL, SLAC team up for breakthrough biology projects

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Under DOE’s Integrated Research Infrastructure initiative, a team from ORNL and SLAC is establishing a data portal that will enable Frontier to process the results from experiments conducted by LCLS-II. Scientists and users at LCLS will leverage ORNL’s computing power to study their data, conduct simulations and more quickly inform their ongoing experiments, all within a seamless framework. 

Journal

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

6-May-2024

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

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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.

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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. 

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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.