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History of insightful HIV research inspires neutron scattering approach to studying COVID-19

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

What began as novel investigations into HIV, abruptly pivoted to the novel coronavirus as it began to spread across the globe. Now, ORNL researchers are using neutrons to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 protease--a protein enzyme that enables the virus to replicate within the human body. Insights on the protein structure and its behaviors will be used to create more accurate models for simulations in aims of finding drug inhibitors to block the virus's ability to reproduce.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory welcomes 6 new research fellows to Innovation Crossroads

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Oak Ridge National Laboratory welcomed six technology innovators to join the fourth cohort of Innovation Crossroads, the Southeast's only entrepreneurial research and development program based at a US Department of Energy national laboratory.

Crystalline 'nanobrush' clears way to advanced energy and information tech

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory synthesized a tiny structure with high surface area and discovered how its unique architecture drives ions across interfaces to transport energy or information. Their 'nanobrush' contains bristles made of alternating crystal sheets with vertically aligned interfaces and plentiful pores. 'These are major technical accomplishments and may prove useful in advancing energy and information technologies,' said ORNL's Ho Nyung Lee, who led the study.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

VENUS construction on track for ORNL's newest neutron imaging instrument

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers and engineers at the Spallation Neutron Source are making progress on the construction of VENUS, the facility's newest neutron scattering instrument for studying materials in exciting new ways that are currently not possible for open research programs in the US.

Story tips: Shuffling atoms, thinning forests, fusion assembly and nuclear medicine

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL Story Tips: Shuffling atoms, thinning forests, fusion assembly and nuclear medicine.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/Biological and Environmental Research, DOE Isotope Program, DOE/US Department of Energy, DOE/Fusion Energy Sciences division, National Institutes of Health

As ORNL builds novel reactor, nuclear industry benefits from technology

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at DOE's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory working on the Transformational Challenge Reactor, a microreactor built using 3D printing, find their work may revolutionize manufacturing in the nuclear industry -- and in other industries, too.

Supercomputing aids scientists seeking therapies for deadly bacterial disease

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team led by Abhishek Singharoy, assistant professor at Arizona State University, has used the Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to simulate the structure of a possible drug target for the bacterium that causes rabbit fever. By simulating a protein called Francisella lipoprotein 3 (Flpp3), the team revealed the different possible states the protein can exist in and is virtually screening compounds that might interfere with the protein.

Story tips: Mining for COVID, rules to grow by and the 3D connection

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL story Tips: Mining for COVID, rules to grow by and the 3D connection.

Journal: Energy Storage Materials
Funder: Department of Energy Office of Science; Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Laboratory Directed Research and Development program

ORNL, LANL-developed quantum technologies go the distance

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

For the second year in a row, a team of scientists from DOE's Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories led a demonstration hosted by EPB, a utility and telecommunications company, to test quantum-based technologies that could improve the cybersecurity, longevity and efficiency of the nation's power grid. Among other successes, the researchers drastically increased the range these resources can cover in collaboration with new industry partner Qubitekk.

Funder: and Emergency Response, Energy Security, Department of Energy Office of Cybersecurity

Oak Ridge National Laboratory advanced manufacturing innovation helps industry in COVID-19 fight

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility and Carbon Fiber Technology Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using their materials science, fiber production and additive manufacturing expertise and capabilities to produce tooling such as custom molds for injection molding to provide US industry with the necessary resources to mass produce healthcare supplies in record time.

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