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![Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers developed a fiber to adsorb uranium from seawater. Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers developed a fiber to adsorb uranium from seawater.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Adsorbent%20Fiber.jpg?itok=FclPLVaY)
![Light drives the migration of charge carriers (electrons and holes) at the juncture between semiconductors with mismatched crystal lattices. These heterostructures hold promise for advancing optoelectronics and exploring new physics. Light drives the migration of charge carriers (electrons and holes) at the juncture between semiconductors with mismatched crystal lattices. These heterostructures hold promise for advancing optoelectronics and exploring new physics.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/from%20Andy_%20Highlight%20figure%20rev1-xf%20%28resized%29.jpg?itok=pweAjHEE)
Epitaxy, or growing crystalline film layers that are templated by a crystalline substrate, is a mainstay of manufacturing transistors and semiconductors. If the material in one deposited layer is the same as the material in the next layer, it can be energetically fav...
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Four Department of Energy national laboratories are joining Oak Ridge National Laboratory to expand an online crowdsourcing community for building technologies called JUMP, which bridges the gap between cutting-edge ideas and the marketplace. Joining ORNL in JUMP...
![As part of the Bioenergy Study Tour hosted by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, participants will visit switchgrass fields and facilities in East Tennessee. As part of the Bioenergy Study Tour hosted by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, participants will visit switchgrass fields and facilities in East Tennessee.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/switchgrass_tour%5B2%5D.jpeg?itok=VbNfjxix)
Researchers and others interested in establishing a sustainable bioeconomy in the U.S. are taking part in a five-day study tour led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Approximately 70 attendees from DOE and its national laboratories, the ...
![This rendering illustrates the excitation of a spin liquid on a honeycomb lattice using neutrons. This rendering illustrates the excitation of a spin liquid on a honeycomb lattice using neutrons.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/quantumspin_750x500.jpg?itok=thIJhAFF)
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutrons to uncover novel behavior in materials that holds promise for quantum computing. The findings, published in Nature Materials, provide evidence for long-sought phenomena in a two-dim...
![Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists combined imaging techniques to measure crystallization kinetics of perovskite films following exposure to a mixed halide vapor. Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists combined imaging techniques to measure crystallization kinetics of perovskite films following exposure to a mixed halide vapor.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Perovskite_jacs.jpg?itok=DbSk7_d5)
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a potential path to further improve solar cell efficiency by understanding the competition among halogen atoms during the synthesis of sunlight-absorbing crystals.
![Red trillium is among the spring wildflowers found on the Oak Ridge Reservation. Red trillium is among the spring wildflowers found on the Oak Ridge Reservation.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Flower%202006-P02821.jpg?itok=ubaRn7l9)
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A 20-kilowatt wireless charging system demonstrated at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has achieved 90 percent efficiency at three times the rate of the plug-in systems commonly used for electric vehicles today. This ability can help acc...
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Frank Loeffler, University of Tennessee (UT)-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor's Chair for Microbiology and Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
![Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers at the Carbon Fiber Technology Facility have demonstrated a production method that dramatically reduces the cost and energy required to produce carbon fiber. Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers at the Carbon Fiber Technology Facility have demonstrated a production method that dramatically reduces the cost and energy required to produce carbon fiber.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/CFTF_overview.jpg?itok=xOP6PiPP)
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a production method they estimate will reduce the cost of carbon fiber as much as 50 percent and the energy used in its production by more than 60 percent. After extensive ...