Updated software improves slicing for large-format 3D printing
Rare earth elements vital to electric and hybrid vehicles and numerous other energy technologies could one day be replaced at least in part by compounds of heavy transition elements, a team of researchers has discovered. This finding goes against conventional wisdom that high performance magnets req...
Nanoscale robots that can flow through blood or repair complex electronics may yet be a possibility with the help of a new strategy developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Although devices such as computer processors can effectively handle electrical signals at the length scale of 10 nanometers,...
Eliminating barriers to energy efficiency of U.S. industry is the focus of a new report commissioned by the Department of Energy and performed by Georgia Institute of Technology and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. As the consumer of about one-third of the nation's energy, the industrial sector presen...
When converting corn into ethanol, a lot of lignin and cellulosic material is left over. We could get energy out of the remains and turn them into other useful chemicals—if only we had controllable, efficient processes. To improve those processes, computational chemist Ariana Beste and experimental ...
Spin valves are widely used in computing applications and are seen as a potentially revolutionary technology in applications such as memory chips and miniature chips and sensors. They are a part of the suite of technologies known as "spintronics," which use the magnetic property of electrons called ...
Researchers used the SEQUOIA inelastic spectrometer at the Spallation Neutron Source to map the dynamics of hydrogen atoms in a natural crystal of muscovite. The team from the Czech and Slovak Republics compared their experimental findings with computer simulations of the material's structure and dy...
Separating olefins from paraffin in petroleum wastewater is a heavy expense for the petrochemical industry. Companies are looking for cheaper techniques to recycle waste streams. Neutron scattering on the BASIS instrument at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source shows that olefin...
Ionic liquids have emerged as promising new solvents capable of disrupting the cellulose crystalline structure in a wide range of biomass feedstocks. Such biomass is of particular interest as a renewable and sustainable source of fuels and chemicals, and the crystallinity of the cellulose is one of ...
Despite limitations at regional scales, climate models still provide useful information that should be considered by civil engineers and planners making decisions about infrastructure such as dams, power plants, oil refineries and water treatment plants. This is the finding of Oak Ridge National Lab...
High-resolution subsurface exploration could get a boost with innovative approaches that take advantage of the underlying dynamics of atomic force microscopy. By carefully manipulating the oscillations of the probe and substrate in an unconventional manner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Laurene Te...