![The solar inverter’s power package features an air-cooled, 3D printed heat sink. The project is supported by the SunShot National Laboratory Multiyear Partnership program of the DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office. Credit: Jason Richards/ORNL, USDOE The solar inverter’s power package features an air-cooled, 3D printed heat sink. The project is supported by the SunShot National Laboratory Multiyear Partnership program of the DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office. Credit: Jason Richards/ORNL, USDOE](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/04a%20Solar_inverter_main_image_preview_0.jpeg?itok=BZHApMw8)
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![The solar inverter’s power package features an air-cooled, 3D printed heat sink. The project is supported by the SunShot National Laboratory Multiyear Partnership program of the DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office. Credit: Jason Richards/ORNL, USDOE The solar inverter’s power package features an air-cooled, 3D printed heat sink. The project is supported by the SunShot National Laboratory Multiyear Partnership program of the DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office. Credit: Jason Richards/ORNL, USDOE](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/04a%20Solar_inverter_main_image_preview_0.jpeg?itok=BZHApMw8)
![Smart Neighborhood](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Smart-Neighborhood-Feature-alt.jpg?itok=t5qHHp6_)
Tucked away on about five acres outside of Birmingham, Alabama, sits innovative technology that could change the way homeowners manage energy consumption.
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A new suite of aluminum-based alloys developed at ORNL could give automakers the key to achieving ambitious fuel economy goals.
![ORNL inventors Bruce Warmack, left, and Nance Ericson display an early prototype of the DC hotstick. Credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy. ORNL inventors Bruce Warmack, left, and Nance Ericson display an early prototype of the DC hotstick. Credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/HotStickCarKneeling_4.jpg?itok=vi8a4ht4)
![Singanallur “Venkat” Venkatakrishnan is a Wigner Fellow in the Imaging, Signals, and Machine Learning Group at ORNL. Singanallur “Venkat” Venkatakrishnan is a Wigner Fellow in the Imaging, Signals, and Machine Learning Group at ORNL.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Venkat200.jpg?itok=4sB-GK_4)
Singanallur “Venkat” Venkatakrishnan is helping scientists get a better view of objects under study by some of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s most powerful instruments by creating algorithms that turn data into 3D renderings with fewer images.
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![Xin Sun of Oak Ridge National Laboratory has received the 2018 Institute Medal from the American Iron and Steel Institute. Xin Sun of Oak Ridge National Laboratory has received the 2018 Institute Medal from the American Iron and Steel Institute.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/XinSun200%20a.jpg?itok=wlzkfZ5X)
Xin Sun, a division director at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the 2018 Institute Medal from the directors of the American Iron and Steel Institute.
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Algorithms designed to parse data gathered by roadside sensors could make it easier to identify vehicles sought in AMBER Alerts and to assist researchers studying traffic patterns.
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Inspiration often strikes in the unlikeliest of places and for Kaushik Biswas, a mechanical engineer in ORNL’s Building Envelope & Urban Systems Research Group, a moment spent enjoying entertainment led to the idea of developing self-healing
![Christina Forrester](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2018-P01676.jpg?h=8fa07595&itok=91f3qGjE)
Christina Forrester’s meticulous nature is a plus for her work leading technical testing and analysis of radiological and nuclear detection devices, whether that work takes her to the Desert Southwest or to her own lab outfitted with specialized