Filter News
Area of Research
- Advanced Manufacturing (4)
- Biological Systems (1)
- Biology and Environment (11)
- Clean Energy (60)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (5)
- Computer Science (2)
- Fusion Energy (3)
- Materials (63)
- Materials for Computing (3)
- National Security (4)
- Neutron Science (17)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (3)
- Quantum information Science (2)
- Supercomputing (24)
- Transportation Systems (1)
News Topics
- (-) Bioenergy (23)
- (-) Composites (4)
- (-) Environment (52)
- (-) Frontier (3)
- (-) Materials (2)
- (-) Materials Science (59)
- (-) Microscopy (14)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (44)
- Advanced Reactors (21)
- Artificial Intelligence (21)
- Big Data (20)
- Biology (6)
- Biomedical (26)
- Biotechnology (3)
- Buildings (1)
- Chemical Sciences (5)
- Clean Water (7)
- Climate Change (10)
- Computer Science (80)
- Coronavirus (23)
- Critical Materials (2)
- Cybersecurity (11)
- Decarbonization (1)
- Energy Storage (30)
- Exascale Computing (6)
- Fusion (19)
- Grid (12)
- High-Performance Computing (3)
- Isotopes (9)
- Machine Learning (13)
- Mathematics (2)
- Mercury (3)
- Molten Salt (3)
- Nanotechnology (23)
- National Security (2)
- Neutron Science (50)
- Nuclear Energy (48)
- Physics (21)
- Polymers (9)
- Quantum Science (24)
- Security (5)
- Space Exploration (6)
- Summit (26)
- Sustainable Energy (32)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (5)
- Transportation (29)
Media Contacts
A team of scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory used carbon nanotubes to improve a desalination process that attracts and removes ionic compounds such as salt from water using charged electrodes.
Kevin Field at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory synthesizes and scrutinizes materials for nuclear power systems that must perform safely and efficiently over decades of irradiation.
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 22, 2019 – Karren Leslie More, a researcher at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) professional organization.
Higher carbon dioxide levels caused 30 percent more wood growth in young forest stands across the temperate United States over a decade, according to an analysis led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 1, 2019—ReactWell, LLC, has licensed a novel waste-to-fuel technology from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to improve energy conversion methods for cleaner, more efficient oil and gas, chemical and
Vera Bocharova at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory investigates the structure and dynamics of soft materials—polymer nanocomposites, polymer electrolytes and biological macromolecules—to advance materials and technologies for energy, medicine and other applications.
The use of lithium-ion batteries has surged in recent years, starting with electronics and expanding into many applications, including the growing electric and hybrid vehicle industry. But the technologies to optimize recycling of these batteries have not kept pace.
Researchers used neutron scattering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Spallation Neutron Source to investigate the effectiveness of a novel crystallization method to capture carbon dioxide directly from the air.
Scientists have tested a novel heat-shielding graphite foam, originally created at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, at Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X stellarator with promising results for use in plasma-facing components of fusion reactors.