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ORNL research to bring more reliable electricity to Puerto Rican microgrids

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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

Unearthing the secrets of plant health, carbon storage with rhizosphere-on-a-chip

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a miniaturized environment to study the ecosystem around poplar tree roots for insights into plant health and soil carbon sequestration.

Journal: Lab on a Chip
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Sensor research helps fight wildfires

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

As climate change leads to larger and more frequent wildfires, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using sensors, drones and machine learning to both prevent fires and reduce their damage to the electric grid. Engineers are honing technology to remotely sense electrical arcing and faulty equipment, as well as the direction of spreading fires.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. Forest Service

Story tips: Drought-resistant crops, hydropower, AI for atomic measurement, controlling refrigerants and recycling e-waste

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL Story tips: Drought-resistant crops, hydropower, AI for atomic measurement, controlling refrigerants and recycling e-waste

Journal: Advanced Engineering Materials
Funder: Biological and Environmental Research, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Water Power Technologies Office, Office of Science, Building Technologies Office, Advanced Manufacturing Office

Magnetic quantum material broadens platform for probing next-gen information technologies

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron scattering to determine whether a specific material’s atomic structure could host a novel state of matter called a spiral spin liquid. By tracking tiny magnetic moments known as “spins” on the honeycomb lattice of a layered iron trichloride magnet, the team found the first 2D system to host a spiral spin liquid.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science

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