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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

Summit charts a course to uncover the origins of genetic diseases

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by Ivaylo Ivanov of Georgia State University used the 200-petaflop IBM AC922 Summit system, the world's smartest and most powerful supercomputer, to develop an integrative model of the transcription preinitiation complex (PIC), a complex of proteins vital to gene expression.

Journal: Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Funder: National Institutes of Health

Sweet neutron science shines new light on dark chocolate's tastiness

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Canadian researchers used neutrons at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source to better understand how tempering affects chocolate's microstructure and how that relationship impacts taste.

Bio-inspired material targets oceans' uranium stores for sustainable nuclear energy

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have demonstrated a new bio-inspired material for an eco-friendly and cost-effective approach to recovering uranium from seawater. The low-cost polymer adsorbent could help push past bottlenecks in the cost and efficiency of extracting uranium resources from oceans for sustainable energy production.

Journal: Nature Communications

Cryogenics equipment maker licenses ORNL method for more efficient liquid helium use

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Advanced Research Systems, Inc., has licensed ORNL's technology designed to automatically refill liquid helium used in laboratory equipment for low-temperature scientific experiments, which will reduce downtime, recover more helium and increase overall efficiency.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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