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![Robert Jubin. Robert Jubin.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Jubin-3_0.jpg?itok=i_0UmVzb)
![ORNL researcher Peter Thornton "in the field" for the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment - Arctic. ORNL researcher Peter Thornton "in the field" for the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment - Arctic.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/ThorntonNGEE%202.jpg?itok=yVsE0AFW)
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Six researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). The APS is one of the largest physics organizations in the world with more than 51,000 members in academia, government an...
![A team from ORNL, Indiana University and Max Planck Institute in Germany has implemented a technique with Wollaston prisms to expand the capabilities currently available at ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor instrument HB-1. A team from ORNL, Indiana University and Max Planck Institute in Germany has implemented a technique with Wollaston prisms to expand the capabilities currently available at ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor instrument HB-1.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/WollastonP1%20%282%29.jpg?itok=zzQdsgW_)
![An illustration that demonstrates how THF (orange) and water (blue) phase separate on the surface of cellulose (green), thus facilitating its breakdown. Image credit: Barmak Mostofian An illustration that demonstrates how THF (orange) and water (blue) phase separate on the surface of cellulose (green), thus facilitating its breakdown. Image credit: Barmak Mostofian](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Smith_Photo%5B1%5D%202.jpg?itok=WIQ9uvyL)
![ORNL’s Sarah Cousineau is responsible for overseeing and coordinating beam physics research efforts for the Spallation Neutron Source accelerator. ORNL’s Sarah Cousineau is responsible for overseeing and coordinating beam physics research efforts for the Spallation Neutron Source accelerator.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Sarah%20Cousineau-8933.jpg?itok=akVbP-cO)
![The theories that led to physicists Thouless, Haldane, and Kosterlitz being awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, are guiding today’s quantum physicists at ORNL in their search for materials of the future. (Image credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman) The theories that led to physicists Thouless, Haldane, and Kosterlitz being awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, are guiding today’s quantum physicists at ORNL in their search for materials of the future. (Image credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman)](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/16-G01512_NS_Nobel_web.jpg?itok=i92dwL8T)
The theories recognized with this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics underpin research ongoing at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where scientists are using neutrons as a probe to seek new materials with extraordinary properties for applications such as next-generation electronics, superconductors, and quantum computing.
![A simulation shows the path for the collision of a krypton ion (blue) with a defected graphene sheet and subsequent formation of a carbon vacancy (red). Red shades indicate local strain in the graphene. Image credit: Kichul Yoon, Penn State A simulation shows the path for the collision of a krypton ion (blue) with a defected graphene sheet and subsequent formation of a carbon vacancy (red). Red shades indicate local strain in the graphene. Image credit: Kichul Yoon, Penn State](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/graphene_defect1.jpg?itok=2KdyjJb0)
![The SNS LINAC is the most powerful proton-pulsed accelerator in the world. The SNS LINAC is the most powerful proton-pulsed accelerator in the world.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/cryomodule1.jpg?itok=vTrsgto0)
![ORNL researcher Xiaobing Liu works in the laboratory’s Building Technologies Research and Integration Center. ORNL researcher Xiaobing Liu works in the laboratory’s Building Technologies Research and Integration Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Xiaobing_Liu200.jpg?itok=1Fgav7Fp)
As a boy growing up in China, Xiaobing Liu knew all about Oak Ridge and the World War II Manhattan Project. He had no idea that he would one day work at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Secret City’s successor. Liu is a lead researcher in geothermal heat pump (GHP) techn...