![Debjani Singh](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_square_large/public/2024-08/2024-P12408.jpg?h=8f9cfe54&itok=bP5F6U4Y)
Filter News
Area of Research
- Advanced Manufacturing (1)
- Biology and Environment (25)
- Biology and Soft Matter (1)
- Clean Energy (31)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (3)
- Fusion and Fission (6)
- Isotopes (24)
- Materials (85)
- Materials for Computing (8)
- Mathematics (1)
- National Security (21)
- Neutron Science (21)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (8)
- Quantum information Science (9)
- Supercomputing (40)
News Topics
- (-) Chemical Sciences (70)
- (-) Clean Water (31)
- (-) Cybersecurity (35)
- (-) Isotopes (55)
- (-) Physics (63)
- (-) Quantum Science (71)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (125)
- Advanced Reactors (34)
- Artificial Intelligence (97)
- Big Data (60)
- Bioenergy (92)
- Biology (100)
- Biomedical (60)
- Biotechnology (23)
- Buildings (61)
- Climate Change (104)
- Composites (29)
- Computer Science (195)
- Coronavirus (46)
- Critical Materials (29)
- Decarbonization (82)
- Education (4)
- Element Discovery (1)
- Emergency (2)
- Energy Storage (112)
- Environment (198)
- Exascale Computing (40)
- Fossil Energy (6)
- Frontier (44)
- Fusion (57)
- Grid (66)
- High-Performance Computing (90)
- Hydropower (11)
- Irradiation (3)
- ITER (7)
- Machine Learning (49)
- Materials (145)
- Materials Science (145)
- Mathematics (9)
- Mercury (12)
- Microelectronics (4)
- Microscopy (51)
- Molten Salt (8)
- Nanotechnology (60)
- National Security (71)
- Net Zero (14)
- Neutron Science (134)
- Nuclear Energy (110)
- Partnerships (49)
- Polymers (33)
- Quantum Computing (37)
- Renewable Energy (2)
- Security (25)
- Simulation (49)
- Software (1)
- Space Exploration (25)
- Statistics (3)
- Summit (59)
- Sustainable Energy (130)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (7)
- Transportation (97)
Media Contacts
![ORNL researchers Tom Beck, left, Sarp Oral and Rafael Ferreira da Silva have proposed a strategy for integrating classical supercomputers such as Frontier, the world’s first exascale computer, with the emerging field of quantum computing.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/BeckOralSilvaMain_0.jpg?h=036a71b7&itok=53p41Ylx)
A study by more than a dozen scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory examines potential strategies to integrate quantum computing with the world’s most powerful supercomputing systems in the pursuit of science.
![solid-state electrolyte to double as energy storage in a car](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/Press%20Release-Polymer-Separator-Film%2016x9-ia2-v2%20copy.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=jz7Ue__4)
To speed the arrival of the next-generation solid-state batteries that will power electric vehicles and other technologies, scientists led by ORNL advanced the development of flexible, durable sheets of electrolytes. They used a polymer to create a strong yet springy thin film that binds electrolytic particles and at least doubles energy storage.
![Jeremiah Sewell](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/2023-P10892.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=nr9xd3j7)
Jeremiah Sewell leads a team at ORNL, working on xenon-129 production for lung imaging. Reflecting on his career, Sewell views each opportunity as a "door" he steps through, leveraging over 25 years of experience in nuclear power and centrifuge operations to advance the facility’s mission.
![Debjani Singh](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/2024-P12408.jpg?h=8f9cfe54&itok=zFo2oivw)
Debjani Singh, a senior scientist at ORNL, leads the HydroSource project, which enhances hydropower research by making water data more accessible and useful. With a background in water resources, data science, and earth science, Singh applies innovative tools like AI to advance research. Her career, shaped by her early exposure to science in India, focuses on bridging research with practical applications.
![Environmentally friendly amino acids](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/story%20tip.png?h=0412f367&itok=YHf2LoPQ)
Researchers at ORNL have demonstrated that small molecular tweaks to surfaces can improve absorption technology for direct air capture of carbon dioxide. The team added a charged polymer layer to an amino acid solution, and then, through spectroscopy and simulation, found that the charged layer can hold amino acids at its surface.
![Weyl semimetal](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/Picture4.jpg?h=b38bf506&itok=dUHD6CQU)
At ORNL, a group of scientists used neutron scattering techniques to investigate a relatively new functional material called a Weyl semimetal. These Weyl fermions move very quickly in a material and can carry electrical charge at room temperature. Scientists think that Weyl semimetals, if used in future electronics, could allow electricity to flow more efficiently and enable more energy-efficient computers and other electronic devices.
![Benjamin Manard](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-08/2021-P08328.jpg?h=8f0b2d98&itok=ZKVil-VE)
Benjamin Manard, an analytical chemist in the Chemical Sciences Division of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will receive the 2024 Lester W. Strock Award from the Society of Applied Spectroscopy.
![Exploding stars, a glowing light](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-07/PIA12008~large.jpg?h=80d43bfb&itok=3ESHQm6E)
Scientists have determined that a rare element found in some of the oldest solids in the solar system, such as meteorites, and previously thought to have been forged in supernova explosions, actually predate such cosmic events, challenging long-held theories about its origin.
![Angelique Adams, front left, introduces Kusum Rathore, front center, executive director and vice president of the multi-campus office at the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, and Jim Biggs, executive director of the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, during the final presentation event for ORNL’s Safari coaching program.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-07/safari1.jpg?h=8f9cfe54&itok=-fvnkwFD)
Five researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently completed an eight-week pilot commercialization coaching program as part of Safari, a program funded by DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions, or OTT, Practices to Accelerate the Commercialization of Technologies, or PACT.
![Ariel view of the Salt Waste Processing Facility, which is big, white and square.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-07/SRS_Heroes_of_Chemistry_2024_07_23IMAGE.jpg?h=56bf8be4&itok=5OtcmMpt)
A team of federal contractor and national laboratory engineers and scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has been nationally distinguished as “Heroes of Chemistry” for making the world better through their effort, ingenuity, creativity and perseverance.