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Employee-led giving at ORNL nets $944,000 for area nonprofits

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Employees of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory gave nearly $800,000 to local nonprofits through the lab’s employee giving programs in 2021. ORNL’s managing contractor, UT-Battelle, provided an additional $144,000 in corporate contributions.

Precision machining produces tiny, light-guiding cubes for advancing info tech

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Drilling with the beam of an electron microscope, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory precisely machined tiny electrically conductive cubes that can interact with light and organized them in patterned structures that confine and relay light’s electromagnetic signal. This demonstration is a step toward potentially faster computer chips and more perceptive sensors.

Journal: Small
Funder: US Department of Energy Office of Science

Three ORNL scientists elected AAAS fellows

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Three scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.

Secretary’s Honor Awards recognize dozens of ORNL employees

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

More than 50 current employees and recent retirees from ORNL received Department of Energy Secretary’s Honor Awards from Secretary Jennifer Granholm in January as part of project teams spanning the national laboratory system. The annual awards recognized 21 teams and three individuals for service and contributions to DOE’s mission and to the benefit of the nation.

Supercomputing for swift protein modeling

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team at Arizona State University used the nation's fastest supercomputer, Summit at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to simulate millions of structures and gain new insights into how proteins transition to different shapes.

Journal: Matter
Funder: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery, NIH/National Institutes of Health

Supercomputing exposes potential pathways for inhibiting COVID-19

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

To explore the inner workings of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a novel technique.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Polymer upcycling of common plastic adds toughness, recyclability to structural adhesives

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used polymer chemistry to transform a common household plastic into a reusable adhesive with a rare combination of strength and ductility, making it one of the toughest materials ever reported.

Taking on decarbonization in the ag sector: ORNL summit highlights focus areas

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Energy and sustainability experts from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, industry, universities and the federal government recently identified key focus areas to meet the challenge of successfully decarbonizing the agriculture sector, as well as scientific resources that the U.S. Department of Energy’s national laboratories can bring to the table.

Artificially altered material could accelerate neuromorphic device development

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Neuromorphic devices — which emulate the decision-making processes of the human brain — show great promise for solving pressing scientific problems, but building physical systems to realize this potential presents researchers with a significant challenge. An international team has gained additional insights into a material compound called vanadium oxide, or VO2, that might be the missing ingredient needed to complete a reliable neuromorphic recipe.

Journal: Physical Review B
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Research Foundation of Korea

Ultra Safe Nuclear licenses ORNL method to 3D print advanced reactor components

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A novel method to 3D print components for nuclear reactors, developed by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been licensed today by Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation.

Funder: Office of Nuclear Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Advanced Manufacturing Office

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