5-Nov-2020 Story tips: Ice breaker data, bacterial breakdown, catching heat and finding order DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peer-Reviewed Publication ORNL story tips: Ice breaker data, bacterial breakdown, catching heat and finding order Funder Department of Energy's Office of Science; ORNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development program
29-Oct-2020 ORNL researcher studies individualized isotopes' impact by targeting cancer DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory A radioisotope researcher in the Radioisotope Science and Technology Division at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Davern is focusing on ways to use nanoparticles -- particles 100 nanometers or smaller that can have special properties -- to contain those radioisotopes and deliver them directly to cancer cells, where they can decay into different isotopes that irradiate those cells.
28-Oct-2020 Oak Ridge National Lab industry collaboration enables job growth, N95 mask production in Florida DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory A collaboration between the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Florida-based medical device manufacturer has led to the addition of 500 jobs in the Miami area to support the mass production of N95 respirator masks.
27-Oct-2020 Neutrons chart atomic map of COVID-19's viral replication mechanism DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peer-Reviewed Publication To better understand how the novel coronavirus behaves and how it can be stopped, scientists have completed a three-dimensional map that reveals the location of every atom in an enzyme molecule critical to SARS-CoV-2 reproduction. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron scattering to identify key information to improve the effectiveness of drug inhibitors designed to block the virus's replication mechanism. Journal Journal of Biological Chemistry Funder DOE/US Department of Energy
26-Oct-2020 On-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons could advance quantum devices DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peer-Reviewed Publication An international multi-institution team of scientists has synthesized graphene nanoribbons -- ultrathin strips of carbon atoms -- on a titanium dioxide surface using an atomically precise method that removes a barrier for custom-designed carbon nanostructures required for quantum information sciences. Journal Science Funder Department of Energy
22-Oct-2020 Colorado School of Mines researchers use neutrons to study weld-induced stress relief DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researchers from the Colorado School of Mines used neutrons at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor to measure residual stress of welds used to make large steel tanks that store molten salts for industrial concentrating solar plants.
19-Oct-2020 Additively manufactured components by ORNL headed for TVA nuclear reactor DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL has 3D printed a channel bracket to go into reactors at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant this spring, to demonstrate the viability of pre-qualified additively manufactured reactor components.
14-Oct-2020 Process to recover metals from batteries licensed by Momentum Technologies DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Business Announcement Momentum Technologies Inc., a Dallas, Texas-based materials science company that is focused on extracting critical metals from electronic waste, has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory process for recovering cobalt and other metals from spent lithium-ion batteries. Funder Critical Materials Institute, Momentum Technologies, DOE Technology Commercialization Fund, Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office, DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
9-Oct-2020 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, UT's Tony Schmitz elected to ASPE College of Fellows DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Grant and Award Announcement Tony Schmitz, joint faculty researcher in machining and machine tools at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and mechanical, aerospace and biomedical engineering professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Society for Precision Engineering.
6-Oct-2020 Story Tips: Remote population counting, slowing corrosion and turning down the heat DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peer-Reviewed Publication ORNL Story tips: Remote population counting, slowing corrosion and turning down the heat Funder Office of Science, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Department of Energy