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Neutrons get a wider angle on DNA and RNA to advance 3D models

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland used neutrons at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to capture new information about DNA and RNA molecules and enable more accurate computer simulations of how they interact with everything from proteins to viruses.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 17, 2019

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New builders' tool by ORNL assesses design performance before construction begins; new pressure technique to manipulate magnetism in thin films could enhance electronic devices; ORNL outlines quantum sensing advances for better airport scanning, other applications.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program, US Department of Energy's Office of Science, DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Building Technology Office

At DOE's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, science drives next-gen creations

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In the shifting landscape of global manufacturing, American ingenuity is once again giving US companies an edge with radical productivity improvements as a result of advanced materials and robotic systems developed at the Department of Energy's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Demarteau to head ORNL Physics Division

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has named Marcel Demarteau as Physics Division Director, effective June 17, 2019.

ORNL welcomes seven new research fellows to Innovation Crossroads

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

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

Funder: Advanced Manufacturing Office, DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Neutrons allow analysis of polymer gels' unusual attributes

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers used neutron scattering at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source to investigate the response properties of polymer gels commonly used in products like cosmetics, adhesives, and paints. A better understanding of their behaviors will lead to improved products and potential new medical applications for drug delivery.

New DOE program connects fusion companies with national labs, taps ORNL to lead

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The Department of Energy has established the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy program, or INFUSE, to encourage private-public research partnerships for overcoming challenges in fusion energy development.

Funder: Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 3, 2019

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL story tips: Tiny test fuels by ORNL explore new reactor fuels more rapidly; ORNL-developed computing method detects, reports bugs in VA's healthcare data system; new heat transport study in thermoelectric materials may lead to better heat-to-electricity conversion.

Journal: Health Systems
Funder: Department of Veterans' Affairs

2D crystals conforming to 3D curves create strain for engineering quantum devices

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory explored how atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) crystals can grow over 3D objects and how the curvature of those objects can stretch and strain the crystals. The findings, published in Science Advances, point to a strategy for engineering strain directly during the growth of atomically thin crystals to fabricate single photon emitters for quantum information processing.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science, Office of Naval Research

Unexpected observation of ice at low temperature, high pressure questions water theory

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory studying super-cold states of water discovered a pathway to the unexpected formation of dense, crystalline phases of ice thought to exist beyond Earth's limits. Their findings, reported in Nature, challenge accepted theories and could lead to better understanding of ice found on other planets, moons and elsewhere in space.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Sloan Foundation Deep Carbon Observatory

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