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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

Scientists record rapid carbon loss from warming peatlands

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a direct relationship between climate warming and carbon loss in a peatland ecosystem. Their study published in AGU Advances provides a glimpse of potential futures where significant stores of carbon in peat bogs could be released into the atmosphere as greenhouse gases.

Journal: AGU Advances
Funder: Biological and Environmental Research program, DOE/US Department of Energy

Love-hate relationship of solvent and water leads to better biomass breakup

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron scattering and supercomputing to better understand how an organic solvent and water work together to break down plant biomass, creating a pathway to significantly improve the production of renewable biofuels and bioproducts.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: Department of Energy, Office of Science

Colleen Iversen on belowground ecology

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

After working on a climate change experiment that showed plants adapt to additional carbon dioxide by putting extra carbon into their roots, Colleen Iverson has been on a mission to understand the role of roots in the environment, especially the tundra.

Athena Safa Sefat: Then and now

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Athena Safa Sefat is a Senior Research Scientist and a former Wigner Fellow in the Materials Science & Technology Division of the Physical Sciences Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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