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![Researchers explore the surface chemistry of a copper-chromium-iron oxide catalyst used to generate and purify hydrogen for industrial applications. Credit: Michelle Lehman and Adam Malin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory; U.S. Dept. of Energy.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-07/h2_graphic_v4_16x9.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=UXqJIEOH)
Collaborators at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and U.S. universities used neutron scattering and other advanced characterization techniques to study how a prominent catalyst enables the “water-gas shift” reaction to purify and generate hydrogen at industrial scale.
![ORNL’s Kate Page, left, received a PECASE citation from Kelvin Droegemeier, Director of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Credit: Donica Payne/U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-07/Page_PECASE_0.jpg?h=cfe8de00&itok=fM2WW1ua)
Two researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE.
![Clarice Phelps and Nathan Brewer](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-07/PhelpsBrewer_thumb.jpg?h=658a1911&itok=rnSGcjtD)
Two early career researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been included on the “Periodic Table of Younger Chemists” following an international competition conducted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Younger Chemists Network (IYCN).
A team of scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered the specific gene that controls an important symbiotic relationship between plants and soil fungi, and successfully facilitated the symbiosis in a plant that
![Larry Allard](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-07/LarryAllard_thumb.jpg?h=c15413fd&itok=MqqAyv15)
Larry Allard, distinguished research staff member at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the 2019 Microanalysis Society Presidential Science Award.
![Bruce Moyer](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-07/Moyer_thumb.jpg?h=d42775dc&itok=4rB8khxp)
Bruce Moyer, leader of the Chemical Separations group in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has won the 2019 Glenn T. Seaborg Award from the Actinide Separations Board.
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has named Marcel Demarteau as Physics Division Director, effective June 17.
![Innovation Crossroads Cohort 3](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-06/IC_Cohort3_2019-P04757.jpg?h=036a71b7&itok=1q99VkSZ)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory welcomed seven technology innovators to join the third cohort of Innovation Crossroads, the Southeast’s only entrepreneurial research and development program based at a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory.
![Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Dennis Youchison is the director of the Department of Energy’s Innovation Network for Fusion Energy program. Youchison is a fusion engineer with extensive experience in plasma facing components. Credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-06/Dennis_portrait%5B1%5D_0.jpg?h=49ab6177&itok=5-AilBKA)
The Department of Energy has established the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy program, or INFUSE, to encourage private-public research partnerships for overcoming challenges in fusion energy development.
![Strain-tolerant, triangular, monolayer crystals of WS2 were grown on SiO2 substrates patterned with donut-shaped pillars, as shown in scanning electron microscope (bottom) and atomic force microscope (middle) image elements.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-06/Image%201_5.jpg?h=62c69fe2&itok=NWF1WS0c)
A team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory explored how atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) crystals can grow over 3D objects and how the curvature of those objects can stretch and strain the