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A Brighter Future for Manufacturing, 3-D Printed 1 Layer at a Time
ORNL in the News (Scientific American), May 8, 2013 - Oak Ridge National Laboratory's robotic prosthesis looks like something out of medieval times—a hand clad in chain mail more appropriate for wielding a broadsword than a mug of coffee.
TS Byun recognized as reviewer of the year
ORNL Today, April 16, 2013 - The Journal of Nuclear Materials has awarded Thak Sang Byun the distinction of Best Reviewer for 2012. Byun is a research staff member of ORNL's Nuclear Materials Science & Technology Group in the Materials Science and Technology Division. Byun's selection is based on a vote of all the journal's editors. He has completed a large number of exemplary reviews for the Journal that were found to be thorough and constructive for the authors.
Zhang, Specht elected fellows of American Physical Society
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., April 15, 2013 - Two researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected to fellowship in the American Physical Society (APS). Xiaoguang Zhang and Eliot Specht were named APS fellows in recognition of their outstanding contributions to physics.

RNL lithium-sulfur battery work featured in AFM
Lithium-sulfur battery research by a team of ORNL researchers was featured on the inside front cover of a recent issue of Advanced Functional Materials. Zhan Lin and Nancy Dudney are the paper's coauthors.

ORNL microscopy uncovers "dancing" silicon atoms in graphene
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., April 3, 2013 - Jumping silicon atoms are the stars of an atomic scale ballet featured in a new Nature Communications study from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Energy Department Launches New Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative
Mar. 26, 2013 - As part of the Obama Administration's commitment to revitalizing America's manufacturing sector, today the Energy Department launched the Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative (CEMI), a new Department initiative focused on growing American manufacturing of clean energy products and boosting U.S. competitiveness through major improvements in manufacturing energy productivity.

Women in STEM

Early Career Award for Engineering Accomplishment

Winner: David Wood
Citation: For high-impact research results related to the development of high-performance battery materials and their implementation into commercial processes

Inventor of the Year

Winner: Philip Maziasz
Citation: For sustained and outstanding development of new steels and alloys with significant commercial and economic impact, based on the engineered microstructure method

Science and Technology, Technical Support

Winner: Julia Luck
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the advancement of high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy

Excellence in Technology Transfer

Winners: Michael Brady; Bruce Pint; Yukinori Yamamoto; Philip Maziasz; Michael Santella; Alexander DeTrana; Joseph Marasco; Alan Liby; Craig Blue
Organizations: Materials Science and Technology Division; Energy & Engineering Sciences; Intellectual Property Management
Citation: For development and licensing of AFA steels, a revolutionary new class of heat-resistant steels for higher-efficiency energy production and chemical process industry applications