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![Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker inspects the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, hosted by Craig Blue, IACMI’s chief executive officer. (Jason Richards photo).](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/2015-P04497.jpg?itok=9o6MCXdi)
Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker visited the new Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, praising the advances in manufacturing technology taking place in East T...
![By controlling the temperature and the amount of carbon dioxide in the test chambers, scientists hope to learn how microbial communities, moss populations, various higher plant types and some insect groups respond. By controlling the temperature and the amount of carbon dioxide in the test chambers, scientists hope to learn how microbial communities, moss populations, various higher plant types and some insect groups respond.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/option%203-white.jpg?itok=846qbF4y)
Scientists are getting a glimpse of the future with a Department of Energy large-scale experiment designed to answer questions about how carbon-rich peatlands will respond to projected warming of the climate and increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
![Material dissolved in the liquid at the port tip is immediately transported into the mass spectrometer, ionized, detected and characterized. Material dissolved in the liquid at the port tip is immediately transported into the mass spectrometer, ionized, detected and characterized.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/open-port_hr.jpg?itok=yioXa2aA)
In mere seconds, a system developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory can identify and characterize a solid or liquid sample, providing a valuable tool with applications in material science, forensics, pharmaceuticals, biology and chemistry.
![Beth Papanek, working with nutrients for bacterial growth, and Adam Guss are among the ORNL authors of a paper published in Metabolic Engineering. Beth Papanek, working with nutrients for bacterial growth, and Adam Guss are among the ORNL authors of a paper published in Metabolic Engineering.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/2015-P04176_hr.jpg?itok=QwlAbXZF)
Another barrier to commercially viable biofuels from sources other than corn has fallen with the engineering of a microbe that improves isobutanol yields by a factor of 10.
The finding of the Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center, published in the ...
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A new technology developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute that aids in the recycling, recovery and extraction of rare earth minerals has been licensed to U.S. Rare Earths, Inc.
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A microscope being developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory will allow scientists studying biological and synthetic materials to simultaneously observe chemical and physical properties on and beneath the surface.
![Complex, scalable arrays of semiconductor heterojunctions—promising building blocks for future electronics Complex, scalable arrays of semiconductor heterojunctions—promising building blocks for future electronics.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2D-Highlight-graphic.jpg?itok=aWGXdm0P)
Semiconductors, metals and insulators must be integrated to make the transistors that are the electronic building blocks of your smartphone, computer and other microchip-enabled devices. Today’s transistors are miniscule—a mere 10 nanometers wide—and forme...
![Small businesses can gain access to ORNL resources such as the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility through a new Department of Energy voucher pilot. Small businesses can gain access to ORNL resources such as the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility through a new Department of Energy voucher pilot.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/MDF_SBV_HR.jpg?itok=Jrelb1jt)
Small companies in the advanced manufacturing, transportation and building sectors have a new opportunity to partner with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ORNL was among five national laboratories selected to participate in a ne...
![Doug Abernathy, left, ARCS instrument scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Marc Janoschek, Los Alamos National Laboratory, prepare their sample for experiments at the Spallation Neutron Source. Doug Abernathy, left, ARCS instrument scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Marc Janoschek, Los Alamos National Laboratory, prepare their sample for experiments at the Spallation Neutron Source.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Plutonium_arcs.jpg?itok=aH1x1eMm)
Groundbreaking work at two Department of Energy national laboratories has confirmed plutonium’s magnetism, which scientists have long theorized but have never been able to experimentally observe. The advances that enabled the discovery hold great pro...
![Alan Tennant is the new JINS director. Alan Tennant is the new JINS director.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Tennant_hr.jpg?itok=2HvZKEz3)
Alan Tennant has been appointed director of the Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The institute is a partnership between ORNL and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
"Neutrons are the fu...