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Gang Seob “GS” Jung: Solving scientific puzzles using computational models

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jung, a member of the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate at ORNL, is using his fellowship to develop essential tools of multiscale models for universal materials. He is interested in modeling materials using computational science to help develop new technology for new materials.

New report ensures hydropower sustainability amid climate change

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has provided hydropower operators with new data to better prepare for extreme weather events and shifts in seasonal energy demands caused by climate change.

Industry partners use ORNL software tool to trim carbon footprint of buildings

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Business Announcement

Two years after the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory provided a model of every building in America, commercial partners are using the tool for tasks ranging from designing energy-efficient buildings and cities to relating energy efficiency to real estate value and risk. International companies like Google and SmithGroup are sharing the benefits by making the resulting data publicly available.

Lab experiments support COVID-19 bradykinin storm theory

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A new paper published in Nature Communications adds further evidence to the bradykinin storm theory of COVID-19’s viral pathogenesis — a theory that was posited two years ago by a team of researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, NIH/National Institutes of Health

ORNL research to bring more reliable electricity to Puerto Rican microgrids

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Business Announcement

To provide more affordable, reliable and sustainable electricity to underserved communities like these, scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are partnering with local organizations, nonprofits and universities to build resilience into independent microgrids powered by renewable energy. ORNL is developing a technology that will manage groups of small microgrids as a cluster, enhancing their reliability even when damaged.

Story tips: Inland water carbon emissions on the rise, sealed with silica, cancer-fighting chemistry, improving materials for energy storage, using math to predict SARS-CoV-2 protein mutations

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Story tips from Oak Ridge National Laboratory including: inland water carbon emissions on the rise, sealed with silica, cancer-fighting chemistry, improving materials for energy storage, and using math to predict SARS-CoV-2 protein mutations.

Journal: Global Change Biology
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation

ORNL to lead new center on polymer electrolytes for energy storage

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Grant and Award Announcement

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been selected to lead an Energy Frontier Research Center, or EFRC, focused on polymer electrolytes for next-generation energy storage devices such as fuel cells and solid-state electric vehicle batteries.

Five ORNL technologies identified for investment toward commercialization

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Business Announcement

Five technologies invented by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been selected for targeted investment through ORNL’s Technology Innovation Program.

Libby Johnson: On the frontier for nuclear safety

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory physicist Elizabeth “Libby” Johnson (1921-1996), one of the world’s first nuclear reactor operators, standardized the field of criticality safety with peers from ORNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her work came on the heels of two incidents involving nuclear materials that took the lives of two government researchers at the end of the Manhattan Project.

Seven ORNL technologies win R&D 100 research awards

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their technologies have received seven 2022 R&D 100 Awards, plus special recognition for a battery-related green technology product.

Funder: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Vehicle Technologies Office, Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Advanced Manufacturing Office, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, Building Technologies Office, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. National Science Foundation, Tennessee Valley Authority, Electric Power Research Institute

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