Polyphase wireless power transfer system achieves 270-kilowatt charge, s...
By controlling materials at the nanoscale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers believe they can greatly improve manufacturing processes of products ranging from solar cells to computers to flat-panel displays. At the center of the optimism is a 750-kilowatt radiant plasma arc lamp that boasts ...
Two new division directors have been named at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Peter T. Cummings, director of the Nanomaterials Theory Institute of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society
Studying very small biological nanomaterials and their properties may become easier as the result of development of an electrically charged imaging technique at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.Oak Ridge researcher Sergei Kalinin says aiming an electric pulse at a biological...
Advancing wireless technology operating under extreme conditions typical of industrial settings is the goal of work taking place at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Researcher Wayne Manges says different industries encounter communications challenges as a result of harsh environments.
Registration has opened for high school-aged teams to enter the 2006 Tennessee Science Bowl scheduled Saturday, Feb. 25 at the Blount County Pellissippi State campus.Science Bowl coordinator Marie Westfall of Oak Ridge Associated Universities says the Science Bowl is open to high school students, h...
Battery-powered toys, radios, and portable electronic devices make fun Christmas gifts - until the batteries run down.
Stephen Pennycook, a UT-Battelle corporate fellow and group leader in the Condensed Matter Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was honored tonight as the recipient of the UT-Battelle 2005 Director's Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology during the laboratory's Awards Night ceremony at the Knoxville Convention Center.
About 500 Tennessee middle school students will be competing in the state's sixth annual FIRST Lego League competition Saturday in Cookeville, where students use their designed and programmed autonomous robots to perform required tasks on a table.Tournament co-director Brad Weil of the Departm...
Improved tools and increasingly sophisticated approaches are helping researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory gain a better understanding of how organisms respond to and interact with their environment.