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ORNL’s Vasudevan elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Rama Vasudevan, a research scientist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, or APS.

Energy Secretary breaks ground on new isotope facility at ORNL

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for the U.S. Stable Isotope Production and Research Center. The facility is slated to receive $75 million in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act. It will produce stable isotopes on a large scale, meeting the nation’s increasing demands for isotopes needed in medicine, industry, science and national security.

Racing company licenses innovative ORNL fast-charging battery technologies

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Marc-Antoni Racing has licensed a collection of patented energy storage technologies developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The technologies focus on components that enable fast-charging, energy-dense batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles and grid storage.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Deep learning makes X-ray CT inspection of 3D-printed parts faster, more accurate

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Reports and Proceedings

A new deep-learning framework developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is speeding up the process of inspecting additively manufactured metal parts using X-ray computed tomography, or CT, while increasing the accuracy of the results. The reduced costs for time, labor, maintenance and energy are expected to accelerate expansion of additive manufacturing, or 3D printing.

Bringing custom microbes to the business of recycling plastic

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists working on a solution for plastic waste have developed a two-step chemical and biological process to break down and upcycle mixed plastics into valuable bioproducts, as described in the journal Science. The project, which involves multiple institutions, draws on synthetic biology expertise at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to engineer a microbe that converts deconstructed plastic waste into building blocks for next-generation materials.

Journal: Science
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

New measurements quantifying qudits provide glimpse of quantum future

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using existing experimental and computational resources, a multi-institutional team has developed an effective method for measuring high-dimensional qudits encoded in quantum frequency combs, which are a type of photon source, on a single optical chip.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Swiss National Science Foundation

Story tips: Reducing molten salt’s corrosive effect. VERIFI-ing and tracking carbon’s big footprint. Moss genome study identifies two new species. Ultrasound for battery health

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Story tips from Oak Ridge National Laboratory including reducing molten salt’s corrosive effect, VERIFI-ing and tracking carbon’s big footprint, moss genome study identifies two new species and ultrasound for battery health.

Journal: New Phytologist

Earth System Grid Federation launches effort to upgrade climate projection data system

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The Earth System Grid Federation, a multi-agency initiative that gathers and distributes data for top-tier projections of the Earth’s climate, is preparing a series of upgrades that will make using the data easier and faster while improving how the information is curated.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy, NASA Headquarters, U.S. National Science Foundation

Scientists develop tech to manage two-way power flow to commercial buildings

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently demonstrated a new technology to better control how power flows to and from commercial buildings equipped with solar, wind or other renewable energy generation. The team designed a hybrid AC/DC power electronics hub to act as a gatekeeper between the larger grid and subsystems including renewables, generators and battery storage.

Taking it to the streets: ORNL models climate solutions for US cities

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are deploying their broad expertise in climate data and modeling to create science-based mitigation strategies for cities stressed by climate change as part of two U.S. Department of Energy Urban Integrated Field Laboratory projects.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

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