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ORNL-VA collaboration targets veteran suicide epidemic

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs, a team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has expanded a VA-developed predictive computing model to identify veterans at risk of suicide and sped it up to run 300 times faster, a gain that could profoundly affect the VA's ability to reach susceptible veterans quickly. The model creates individualized summaries of veterans' medication patterns and helps clinicians pinpoint veterans may have a higher risk of attempting suicide.

Knowledgebase is power for nuclear reactor developers

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Six new nuclear reactor technologies are planned to commercially deploy between 2030 and 2040. Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Weiju Ren heads the Department of Energy's Gen IV Materials Handbook, a project managing structural materials information for one of the Generation IV reactors. This conversation with Ren explores challenges and opportunities in sharing nuclear materials knowledge internationally.

Nina Balke: Fine-tuned science

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

As a researcher at ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a DOE Nanoscience User Facility, Nina Balke explores avenues for fine-tuning materials' physical properties to solve energy challenges and expands fundamental research opportunities for CNMS users.

From trash to treasure

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

US Department of Energy researchers have invented a process to extract rare earth elements from the scrapped magnets of used hard drives and other sources. They have patented and scaled up the process in lab demonstrations and are working with ORNL's licensee Momentum Technologies of Dallas to scale the process further to produce commercial batches of rare earth oxides.

IDEMIA Identity & Security USA licenses ORNL advanced optical array

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

IDEMIA Identity & Security USA has licensed an advanced optical array developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The portable technology can be used to help identify individuals in challenging outdoor conditions.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL story tips: Training next-generation sensors to 'see,' interpret live data; 3D printing tungsten could protect fusion reactor components; detailed study estimated how much more, or less, energy US residents might consume by 2050 based on seasonal weather shifts; astrophysicists used ORNL supercomputer to create highest-ever-resolution galactic wind simulations; new solar-thermal desalination method improves energy efficiency.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters
Funder: NASA, DOE/US Department of Energy, ORNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development program

Seven ORNL researchers receive DOE early career funding awards

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Seven Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers representing a range of scientific disciplines have received Department of Energy's Office of Science Early Career Research Program awards. The Early Career Research Program, now in its tenth year, supports the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science.

Researchers raise the heat on molten metals to forge future technologies

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at Iowa State and Ames Laboratory are using neutrons at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source to improve the process of metal-flux synthesis used in manufacturing solid-state materials used to make advanced technologies such as renewables and electronics.

Neutrons shed light on industrial catalyst for hydrogen production

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Collaborators at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and US universities used neutron scattering and other advanced characterization techniques to study how a prominent catalyst enables the 'water-gas shift' reaction to purify and generate hydrogen at industrial scale.

Two ORNL researchers receive presidential early career award

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Two researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- David Cullen and Kate Page -- have received a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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