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Vlastimil Kunc, center, section head for composites science and technology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, accepts the 2025 SAMPE Organizational Excellence Award on behalf of the lab. With Kunc is Ashley Tracey, left, president of SAMPE North America, and ORNL’s Sana Elyas, right, executive vice president of SAMPE North America.

The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering has named the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory as the recipient of the 2025 SAMPE Organizational Excellence Award. 

Illustration of green sparkly background with the words "R&D 100 Award" with an oak leaf underneath

ORNL has set a new lab record with 20 R&D 100 Awards in this year’s global competition, announced by R&D World magazine. ORNL led 17 of the winning innovations and co-developed three more, highlighting its leadership in developing breakthrough technologies that strengthen the nation’s energy systems, advance next-generation materials and manufacturing, and accelerate discovery through AI and high-performance computing.

Joshua Vaughan standing by a machine at the MDF

Joshua Vaughan leads ORNL’s Manufacturing Robotics and Controls Group at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, where his team develops smarter, more flexible robotic systems to strengthen U.S. manufacturing. 

ORNL researcher is looking at ORNL's mock reactor test bed for autonomous controls is shaping the future of space exploration.

Nuclear energy is a leading option to power space exploration, but its success depends on reactors that can operate autonomously. To help make that vision a reality, ORNL has built a non-nuclear test bed that mimics the conditions of a space nuclear reactor to overcome the high cost and strict regulations required for testing in a reactor environment.

Head of the Materials Structures and Processing Section is posing for a portrait with a blue background and black jacket.

Jay Tiley, head of the Materials Structures and Processing Section in the Materials Science and Technology Division at ORNL, has received the 2026 Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division Distinguished Scientist award from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.

Carbon nanotubes are sitting on a grey plate on a countertop

The U.S. Air Force awarded startup SkyNano, led by Innovation Crossroads alumna Anna Douglas, a $1.25 million contract to advance its CO2-to-carbon nanotube technology as part of a project to develop low-cost, battery-grade graphite.

Two researchers are working on the quantum brilliance computer

ORNL, in partnership with technology company Quantum Brilliance, has made the first big steps in the advance of quantum computers for scientific discovery with the installation of a Quantum Brilliance computer system at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. 

Quantum Brilliance's Quantum Development Kits use diamond-based quantum processing units that operate at room temperature in a relatively small package. A team of Quantum Brilliance engineers, including (from left) Leigh Cameron and Cameron Walters, reassembled and calibrated the system in ORNL's laser calibration laboratory.

What do diamonds have to do with running its quantum computers at room temperature? We asked Quantum Brilliance’s technology & innovation manager, Andreas Sawadsky.

ORNL researcher Christi Johnson is reaching inside a cabinet

From racing dragsters at 145 miles per hour to leading advanced sensor research, Christi Johnson has built a career defined by precision, persistence and applied physics. Now a technical professional at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, she designs and tests cutting-edge technologies while mentoring the next generation of innovators.

Large group photo of 75 workshop attendees outside on the ORNL main campus quad

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory hosted the first Oak Ridge Quantum Systems & Software Workshop on July 25, bringing together 75 participants from national laboratories, academia and industry. ORNL organizers launched the workshop as the first step toward building a unified software stack for quantum-classical hybrid computing.