![Prasanna Balaprakash](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_square_large/public/2024-08/2023-P02525.jpg?h=502e75fa&itok=ePVQC-A5)
Filter News
Area of Research
News Topics
- (-) Sustainable Energy (45)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (28)
- Advanced Reactors (7)
- Artificial Intelligence (40)
- Big Data (22)
- Bioenergy (30)
- Biology (41)
- Biomedical (12)
- Biotechnology (9)
- Buildings (31)
- Chemical Sciences (32)
- Clean Water (9)
- Climate Change (47)
- Composites (10)
- Computer Science (45)
- Coronavirus (9)
- Critical Materials (10)
- Cybersecurity (7)
- Decarbonization (43)
- Education (1)
- Element Discovery (1)
- Emergency (1)
- Energy Storage (35)
- Environment (57)
- Exascale Computing (15)
- Fossil Energy (4)
- Frontier (18)
- Fusion (13)
- Grid (22)
- High-Performance Computing (33)
- Hydropower (8)
- Irradiation (1)
- Isotopes (16)
- ITER (3)
- Machine Learning (19)
- Materials (51)
- Materials Science (33)
- Mathematics (4)
- Mercury (1)
- Microelectronics (1)
- Microscopy (15)
- Nanotechnology (11)
- National Security (37)
- Net Zero (8)
- Neutron Science (23)
- Nuclear Energy (21)
- Partnerships (25)
- Physics (16)
- Polymers (10)
- Quantum Computing (18)
- Quantum Science (21)
- Security (6)
- Simulation (20)
- Space Exploration (7)
- Statistics (2)
- Summit (13)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (2)
- Transportation (22)
Media Contacts
![Chunliu Zhuo is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Texas BioDiscovery Institute. Credit: University of North Texas](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-03/20_0302_Dixon-and-Zhuo15.png?h=a49d782d&itok=K0GDwbRk)
A team of researchers working within the Center for Bioenergy Innovation at ORNL has discovered a pathway to encourage a type of lignin formation in plants that could make the processing of crops grown for products such as sustainable jet fuels easier and less costly.
![High voltage power lines carry electricity generated by the Tennessee Valley Authority to ORNL. Credit: Dobie Gillispie/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-02/Powerlines_resized.jpg?h=c74750f6&itok=33NqDqGh)
ORNL and the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA, are joining forces to advance decarbonization technologies from discovery through deployment through a new memorandum of understanding, or MOU.
![Scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory engineered a microbe, shown in light blue, to convert molecules of industrial waste gases, such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, into acetone. The same microbe can also make isopropanol. Credit: Andy Sproles/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-02/LanzaTech_microbeFactory_lrg_1.jpg?h=049a2be9&itok=QLOV6cQI)
A team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and ORNL have developed carbon capture technology that harnesses emissions from industrial processes to produce acetone and isopropanol
![ORNL’s Brenda Pracheil, left, and Kristine Moody collect water samples at Melton Hill Lake using a sophisticated instrument that collects DNA in the water to determine fish species and number of fish in the water, which could prove useful for monitoring hydropower impacts. Credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL/U.S Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-01/2020-P17436_0.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=BXPhSslk)
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using a novel approach in determining environmental impacts to aquatic species near hydropower facilities, potentially leading to smarter facility designs that can support electrical grid reliability.
![ORNL is making underused or inaccessible bioenergy data available to accelerate innovation for the bioeconomy. Credit: Andy Sproles/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-01/refineryData03_0.jpg?h=bb83cc06&itok=k0NhyfH7)
A research team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory has identified and improved the usability of data that can help accelerate innovation for the growing bioeconomy.