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SPARKZ licenses ORNL technology to speed up rechargeable battery production

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Energy storage startup SPARKZ Inc. has exclusively licensed a battery cycling technology from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed to enable the rapid production of lithium-ion batteries commonly used in portable electronic devices and electric vehicles.

Story tips: COVID breath-sampling, welding advances and powered by water

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL story tips: COVID breath-sampling, welding advances and powered by water

Funder: National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory; Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Nuclear Energy; NASA, Department of Energy's Office of Science

Neutrons probe molecular behavior of proposed COVID-19 drug candidates

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using neutron experiments and computer simulations, researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory delved into how some of the proposed COVID-19 drug candidates behave at the molecular scale when exposed to water. The results could help experts understand the mechanisms by which drug molecules have the potential to mitigate the impact of viral infection.

Journal: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Funder: National Energy Research Scientific Computer Center, DOE/US Department of Energy

St. Jude Research uses neutrons to shine light on shutting down cancer cells

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

To investigate what happens inside cells when they are at risk of becoming cancerous, scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have been using neutron scattering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The team is searching to better understand the altered state of the nucleolus--a membrane-less organelle inside the cell--when the cell is compromised. Novel insights into cell behavior at the atomic and molecular scales will enable better detection and treatment of cancer in its many forms.

Compelling evidence of neutrino process opens physics possibilities

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The COHERENT particle physics experiment at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has firmly established the existence of a new kind of neutrino interaction. Because neutrinos are electrically neutral and interact only weakly with matter, the quest to observe this interaction drove advances in detector technology and has added new information to theories aiming to explain mysteries of the cosmos.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: Consortium for Non-proliferation Enabling Capabilities, DOE/Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, Korea's Institute for Basic Science

Story tips: Volcanic microbes, unbreakable bonds and flood mapping

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL story tips: Volcanic microbes, unbreakable bonds and flood mapping

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: NASA, DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation; DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; U.S. Air Force

PlanetSense: Stepping in when disaster strikes

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

As Hurricane Dorian raged through the Bahamas, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory worked around the clock to aid recovery efforts for one of the Caribbean's worst storms ever, providing geographic data that guided decisions on everything from where to open emergency shelters to how to staff first-aid centers.

Story tips: Nanoscale commuting, easy driver and defect detection

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL story tips: Nanoscale commuting, easy driver and defect detection.

Journal: Science
Funder: Department of Energy's Office of Science; DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Welcome to Neutrino Alley

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The COHERENT experiment makes the most of the Spallation Neutron Source's neutrino factory with five detectors sited along a 164-foot, or 50-meter, long hallway that has come to be called Neutrino Alley. Here, Marcel Demarteau, director of the Physics Division at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, explains its successes and possibilities.

New engine capability accelerates advanced vehicle research

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the quest for advanced vehicles with higher energy efficiency and ultra-low emissions, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are accelerating a research engine that gives scientists and engineers an unprecedented view inside the atomic-level workings of combustion engines in real time.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

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