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28-Mar-2022
Bioenergy scientists discover genetic pathway for better biofuel processing
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A team of researchers working with the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has discovered a pathway to encourage a type of lignin formation in plants that could make the processing of crops grown for products such as sustainable jet fuels easier and less costly.
- Journal
- Science Advances
8-Mar-2022
Smithsonian exhibit honors ORNL’s Amy Elliott with life-sized statue recognizing women in STEM
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist Amy Elliott is one of 120 women featured in a new exhibit, IfThenSheCan, at the Smithsonian to commemorate Women's History Month. A life-size 3D printed statue of Elliott, a manufacturing scientist, is now on display in the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C., through March 27.
- Funder
- Office of Science, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Advanced Manufacturing Office
4-Mar-2022
Traffic-based analyses of buildings advance smart city capabilities
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
To determine how these daily mobility patterns affect energy usage, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory partnered with the Smart City Division within the City of Chattanooga’s Department of Information Technology. Benefits from this work could ultimately include more efficient heating and cooling of buildings based on their populations and faster, better informed responses in emergency scenarios.
- Journal
- Building Simulation
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy
1-Mar-2022
ORNL’s Brian Fricke named ASHRAE Fellow
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryGrant and Award Announcement
The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers, or ASHRAE, selected Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Brian Fricke as one of 25 members elevated to fellow grade during its 2022 winter conference.
1-Mar-2022
Story tips: Beneath the skin, crustacean-inspired cotton, automating clean water, samples in space and capturing furnace emissions
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
ORNL story tips: Beneath the skin, crustacean-inspired cotton, automating clean water, samples in space and capturing furnace emissions
- Journal
- Science Translational Medicine
- Funder
- Office of Science, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Office, Advanced Manufacturing Office, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Advanced Scientific Computing Research
1-Mar-2022
ORNL, TVA partner to drive decarbonization, explore carbon-free technologies
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryBusiness Announcement
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA, are joining forces to advance decarbonization technologies from discovery through deployment through a new memorandum of understanding, or MOU.
24-Feb-2022
COVID-19 in the classroom: Simulating the spread
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A team led by Rao Kotamarthi at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is using supercomputers at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to study how aerosol viral particles are distributed in a ventilated classroom as part of COVID-19 research.
- Funder
- Biological and Environmental Research, Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research
- Meeting
- 74th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
21-Feb-2022
Carbon-negative platform turns waste gases into valuable chemicals
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed carbon capture technology that harnesses emissions from industrial processes to produce acetone and isopropanol, known as IPA. These widely used chemicals serve as the basis of thousands of products, from fuels and solvents to acrylic glass and fabrics.
- Journal
- Nature Biotechnology
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy
18-Feb-2022
ORNL experts help measure new world record for fusion energy
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Diagnostics experts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory played a key role in this month's fusion milestone at the Joint European Torus (JET) by measuring what was happening inside the plasma.