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Researchers use commercial quantum computer to identify molecular candidate for development of more efficient solar cells

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Using the full capabilities of the Quantinuum H1-1 quantum computer, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory not only demonstrated best practices for scientific computing on current quantum systems but also produced an intriguing scientific result.

Yu named AVS Fellow for 2023

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Xiao-Ying Yu, a distinguished scientist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named a Fellow of AVS, the American Vacuum Society.

Improving wildfire predictions with Earth-scale climate models

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Wildfires have shaped the environment for millennia, but they are increasing in frequency, range and intensity in response to a hotter climate. The phenomenon is being incorporated into high-resolution simulations of the Earth’s climate by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with a mission to better understand and predict environmental change.

Stephen K. Streiffer named director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Business Announcement

UT-Battelle, LLC, has appointed Stephen K. Streiffer to be the next director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He currently serves as interim director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and will join ORNL in October.

Geoscientists aim to improve human security through planet-scale POI modeling

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Through an intelligent combination of geotagged social media, global location and natural language data, ORNL’s Junchuan Fan and Gautam Thakur developed MapSpace, a publicly available, scalable land-use modeling framework. By providing data characteristics broader and deeper than satellite imagery alone, MapSpace can generate population analytics invaluable for urban planning and disaster response. The researchers’ findings were published in the International Journal of Digital Earth.

Journal: International Journal of Digital Earth

Spallation Neutron Source accelerator achieves world-record 1.7-megawatt power level to enable more scientific discoveries

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory set a world record when its particle accelerator beam operating power reached 1.7 megawatts, substantially improving on the facility’s original design capability.

‘Secret sauce’ enables new way to fabricate compositionally graded alloys

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Research into a new, unique technology to fabricate composite metal parts for a wide range of applications operating in extreme environments across the aviation, space and energy industries is showing promise for additive manufacturing.

Safe train transport

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers used images from a photo-sharing website to identify crude oil train routes across the nation to provide data that could help transportation planners better understand regional impacts.

Journal: Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Funder: Strategic Partnerships Project with U.S. Department of Transportation

Dry manufacturing process offers path to cleaner, more affordable high-energy EV batteries

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Early experiments at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have revealed significant benefits to a dry battery manufacturing process. This eliminates the use of toxic solvents while showing promise for delivering a battery that is durable, less weighed down by inactive elements and able to maintain high energy storage capacity after use. Such improvements could boost wider EV adoption, helping to reduce carbon emissions and achieve U.S. climate goals.

Journal: Chemical Engineering Journal

Safe train transport

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers used images from a photo-sharing website to identify crude oil train routes across the nation to provide data that could help transportation planners better understand regional impacts.

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