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10-Aug-2017

Four ORNL researchers receive DOE early career funding awards

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers specializing in nuclear physics, fusion energy, advanced materials and environmental science are among 59 recipients of Department of Energy's Office of Science Early Career Research Program awards.

Funder: Department of Energy's Office of Science

3-Aug-2017

World's smallest neutrino detector finds big physics fingerprint

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

After more than a year of operation at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the COHERENT experiment, using the world's smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with matter. The research, performed at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source and published in the journal Science, provides compelling evidence for a neutrino interaction process predicted by theorists 43 years ago, but never seen.

Journal: Science
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program, Kavli Foundation

2-Aug-2017

Interdisciplinary team designs gas flow cell to analyze catalytic behavior

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team of researchers from ORNL and Colorado State University developed a U-tube gas flow cell to study catalysts and better understand how facilitate chemical reactions. With this cell integrated into a new sample environment, they can combine neutron diffraction and isotope analysis techniques to view catalytic behavior under realistic operating conditions.

1-Aug-2017

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Aug. 2017

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New method turns used cooking oil into biofuel with carbon derived from recycled tires; novel technique protects innermost fusion reactor wall from energy created when hydrogen isotopes reach sun-like temps; new catalyst production process doubles output of high-value renewable BTX used in plastics and tires; crystalline thin film vanadium dioxide makes outstanding electrode for lithium-ion batteries.

Journal: ChemistrySelect
Funder: Department of Energy

26-Jul-2017

Neutrons peer into a running engine

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge national Laboratory researchers and industry partners used neutrons to investigate the performance of a new aluminum alloy in a gasoline-powered engine -- while the engine was running.

25-Jul-2017

Qubitekk licenses ORNL single-photon source approach for quantum encryption

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Qubitekk has non-exclusively licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-developed method to produce quantum light particles, known as photons, in a controlled, deterministic manner that promises improved speed and security when sharing encrypted data.

Funder: ORNL's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program, DOE/Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability's Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems