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Poison control: Chasing the antidote

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A fast-acting antidote to mitigate the effects of organophosphate poisoning requires a reactivator that can effectively and efficiently cross the blood-brain barrier, bind loosely to the enzyme, chemically snatch the poison and then leave quickly. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is using neutron diffraction data towards improving a novel reactivator design.

Horizon31 startup licenses ORNL global communication system for drones

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Horizon31, LLC, of Knoxville, Tenn., has exclusively licensed a novel communication system that allows users to reliably operate unmanned vehicles such as drones from anywhere in the world using only an internet connection. The technology, developed by the startup's founders at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will enable commercial, government and consumer drone use at scale.

Magnum Venus products licenses ORNL co-developed additive manufacturing technologies

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has licensed two additive manufacturing-related technologies that aim to streamline and ramp up production processes to Knoxville-based Magnum Venus Products, Inc., a global manufacturer of fluid movement and product solutions for industrial applications in composites and adhesives.

Story tips: Pandemic impact, root studies, neutrons confirm, lab on a crystal & modeling fusion

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL Story Tips: Pandemic impact, root studies, neutrons confirm, lab on a crystal and modeling fusion.

Journal: Nature Energy
Funder: Department of Energy's Office of Science; Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program; ORNL's Strategic Partnership Project

Ultrafast lasers probe elusive chemistry at the liquid-liquid interface

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Real-time measurements captured by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory provide missing insight into chemical separations to recover cobalt, a critical raw material used to make batteries and magnets for modern technologies. Results published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces track the dynamics of molecules designed to grab cobalt from solutions containing a mixture of similar species.

Journal: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Safer, longer-lasting energy storage requires focus on interface of advanced materials

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

More studies at the interface of battery materials, along with increased knowledge of the processes at work, are unleashing a surge of knowledge needed to more quickly address the demand for longer-lasting portable electronics, electric vehicles and stationary energy storage for the electric grid.

Visual analytics tool plucks elusive patterns from elaborate datasets

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

An ORNL team developed CrossVis, an open-source, customizable visual analytics system that analyzes numerical, categorical and image-based data while providing multiple dynamic, coordinated views of these and other data types.

ORNL-produced plutonium-238 to help power perseverance on Mars

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Mars 2020 will be the first NASA mission that uses ORNL-produced plutonium-238, the first US-produced Pu-238 in more than three decades. ORNL's Pu-238 will help power the Perseverance rover across the planet's surface.

Funder: NASA, DOE/Office of Nuclear Energy

Hybrid inverter integrates distributed energy resources, supports smart grid function

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed an intelligent power electronic inverter platform that can connect locally sited energy resources such as solar panels, energy storage and electric vehicles and smoothly interact with the utility power grid.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of Electricity, Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy-Building Technologies Office
Meeting: 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)

Computational gene study suggests new pathway for COVID-19 inflammatory response

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by Dan Jacobson of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the Summit supercomputer at ORNL to analyze genes from cells in the lung fluid of nine COVID-19 patients compared with 40 control patients.

Funder: ORNL's Laboratory Directed Research and DevelopmentProgram, DOE Office of Science through the National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory, a consortium of DOE national laboratories focused on response to COVID-19

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