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Vol. 55, No. 2, (Fall 2022)
- Editorial: National security for the 21st century
- To the Point: ORNL Director Zacharia announces retirement, proteins linked to cancer report looks to dams as untapped power sources, study shows that bacteria help peat beat the heat
- National Security: National security science tackles a new generation of threats, high-performance computing boosts uranium research, ORNL tools help ensure energy supply, strengthening cybersecurity in the energy sector, engineers and scientists support nonproliferation efforts
- Focus on Computing: Summit study tackles superconductivity, traffic-based building schedules make smart city even smarter
- Infographic: Securing our nation
- Focus on Neutrons: COVID-19 research moves to antiviral drug design, reducing stress: neutrons help GE improve 3D-printed parts
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Precision machining produces tiny, light-guiding cubes for advancing info tech, polymer gives 3D-printed sand super strength
- Focus on Biology: Microbes turn waste gases into valuable chemicals
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Oak Ridge's last 19th-century building
- Research Insights: Toward a Carbon Neutral Future, Part I: Novel research for shrinking the carbon footprint
Vol. 55, No. 2, (Spring 2022)
- Editorial: ORNL user facilities advance science and technology
- To the Point: Frontier is world’s fastest supercomputer, materials tested in space for radiation effects, perovskite study points to better solar batteries, lignin research points to cheaper biofuels
- ORNL User Facilities: User facilities: Essential support for the country’s researchers, getting down to basic: going big to study the very small, OLCF: serving up bleeding-edge compute power and expertise to the world’s scientists, national user facilities use applied science to accelerate industry growth
- Focus on Neutrons: The secret lives of corn plants caught ‘on camera,’ ORNL helps Nobel laureate improve battery cathodes
- Focus on Quantum: Key witness spills secrets of ‘spooky’ quantum entanglement, real-world demonstration leads to quantum networking milestone
- Focus on Biology: New biosensors shine a light on CRISPR gene editing
- Infographic: Predicting the planet's future
- Focus on Tech Transfer: Mothers (and fathers) of invention: Getting ORNL tech into the world
- Focus on Decarbonization: Decarbonization: Q&A with David Sholl
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Quick detection of uranium isotopes helps safeguard nuclear materials, upcycled: from common plastic to tough, recyclable adhesive, Tiny but mighty precipitates toughen a structural alloy
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Nurse Doris Scott bridged lab’s early race–health disparity
- Research Insights: Atoms for applications: quantum technologies of the future
Vol. 55, No. 1, (Winter 2022)
- Editorial: Pursuing a circular economy
- To the Point: Advance in modeling improves water analysis, ORNL teams take seven R&D 100 awards, new computer code focuses on power grid, nanostructures promote stretchier alloys
- Toward a circular economy: Keeping materials out of landfills, ensuring our water future, lithium recovery: a critical challenge for battery tech
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Welcome to Neutrino Alley: Q&A with ORNL’s Marcel Demarteau, compelling evidence of neutrino process opens physics possibilities, automated chemistry sets new pace for materials discovery
- Focus on Neutrons: A simple salt: making batteries faster and safer, twist and flex: ‘hinged’ atoms improve solar power specs, after 20 years, physicists find a way to keep track of lost accelerator particles
- Focus on Isotopes: Labwide effort may accelerate cancer treatment approvals
- Focus on Manufacturing: Better Plants Program leads industry partners on sustainability journey
- Focus on Botany: Single gene makes for hardier crops
- Focus on COVID: DOE scientists deploy creativity, speed to disrupt COVID-19
- Infographic: Interrupting COVID-19
- Focus on ITER: First-of-a kind superconducting magnet modules delivered to ITER site
- DOE Early Career Award Winners: A tremendous achievement in a tumultuous year
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturer: Samuel Ting
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: COVID-19 mRNA vaccines have Oak Ridge roots
- Research Insights: Research articles from ORNL staff
Vol. 23, No. 4, ( 1990)
Disorder in Crystal Surfaces- ORNL and Antarctica
- Reducing Friction To Save Energy
- Differing Structures of Amorphous Solids
- The Verdict on Acid Rain
- ORNL's Contributions to NAPAP
- Awards and Appointments
- Educational Activities—Successful first Saturday Academy for Computing and Mathematics; photograph of Oak Ridge teacher in national magazine
- R&D Updates—ORNL waste site surveyed by mobile robot; ORNL materials aboard Ulysses space probe; ORNL procedure adopted by EPA
- Technical Highlights—Part of gene making fruit fly resistant to insecticides cloned; subtle DNA changes and trace levels of organics detected by two ORNL mass spectrometer systems; rat lung tumors targeted by ORNL's monoclonal antibodies; new theory on tokamak operations
- Technology Transfer—Optics MODIL organized; iron aluminide technology licensed to two firms
Vol. 23, No. 3, ( 1990)
ORNL's Future Missions- 2 Editorial—ORNL can help synthesize new materials, as called for by a recent National Research Council report.
- Robotics for Nuclear Reactors and Hazardous Environments
- Examining Substitutes for Ozone-Depleting Chemicals
- Mechanisms of Radon Transport
- ORNL's Future Missions
- Awards and Appointments
- Take a Number
- Educational Activities—Science and Technology Alliance; memorandums of understanding
- User Facilities—Bioprocessing Research Facility examined
- R&D Updates—New findings on attic insulation and heat loss; ORNL contributions to shaping National Energy Strategy many and varied; computation speed record attained; U.S . civil defense's ability to meet threat of nuclear winter studied; ORNL tritium sales ended; support for Operation Desert Shield
- Technical Highlights—5 R&D 100 Awards for ORNL; new concept for producing very pure therapeutic drugs continuously
- Technology Transfer—Radiation detector for groundwater licensed; new R&D agreements allowed
Vol. 23, No. 2, ( 1990)
Visualizing Scientific Data- State of the Laboratory—1989
- Scientific Visualization: New Insights by Computer
- Improving Detection of Airport Explosives
- Microwave Processing of Radioactive Waste
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
- User Facilities: The expanding Roof Research Center
- Educational Activities: Role models at ORNL for future women scientists; helping public-school science and math teachers
- Technical Highlights: Solar-powered infrared-emitting microchip being developed and tested; microbes aided by vegetation in decontaminating waste sites; revealing results of a carbon dioxide simulation model
- R&D Updates: World's longest dinosaur imaged by ORNL technique; SSC detector pre-proposal developed at ORNL; the HFIR restored to full-power operation
- Technology Transfer: Electrical solvent extraction technology, precision etching technology, and a radionuclide generator for diagnosing heart disease licensed
Vol. 23, No. 1, ( 1990)
Organ Images- Eureka! A Look at Inventing
- Iron Aluminides and the Inventor of the Year
- Human Behavior in Emergencies
- Environmental Protection in China
- Toward a One-Angstrom Electron Microscope
- ORNL's Impact on Radiation Protection Guidance
- Awards and Appointments
- Educational Activities—New initiatives pushed by President Bush, Secretary of Energy Watkins, Energy Systems, and state of Tennessee
- R&D Updates—New parallel computer at ORNL; Oak Ridge Detector Center established; effects of solar storms on U.S. electric power systems being studied
- Technical Highlights—New concept for increasing optical data storage; important human repair gene cloned; ORNL support for French fusion device; waste-managing microbes
- Technology Transfer—ORNL to collaborate with SEMATECH; computer security technology licensed
Vol. 16, No. 4, ( 1983)
Articles- Fooling Mother Nature: Ion and Laser Beams Improve Materials
- High-Efficiency Beam-Processed Solar Cells
- On the Surface
- Characterizing Materials by X Rays
- Neutron Scattering in Materials Research
- Characterizing Materials by Analytical Electron Microscopy
- Solid State Physics Theory
- Design of Ordered Intermetallic Alloys
- The Theory of Alloys: From Schrodinger to the Rolling Mill
- Mechanical Properties of Metals and Alloys
- Marketing ORNL-made Materials
- Unique ORNL Facilities Used by Academic and Industrial Scientists
- Design of D9: A Radiation Damage-Resistant Alloy
- Materials for Fusion
- Radiation Effects in Metals and Alloys
- SPECIAL SECTION: Aging Trends in Nuclear Power Plants
- Eddy-Current Inspection of Energy-System Components
- Reactor Vessels and Safety
- Alloys for Nuclear Power Systems in Space
- Toward a High-Temperature Materials Laboratory
- Materials Technologies for Advanced Nuclear Energy Concepts
- Advanced Structural Ceramics
- Materials for Energy Conservation
- Welding Metals and Alloys
- Graphites for Space and Defense
- Corrosion Studies at ORNL
- Fossil Energy Materials Research
- Growing Single Crystals of Refractory Materials
- Editorial. Alex Zucker writes on ORNL's role in materials research.
- Lab Anecdote. Stories from the materials sciences
- Books. Tales about Metals is reviewed.
- Awards and appointments
Vol. 16, No. 3, ( 1983)
- Paradox of the Striped Bass: ORNL Fishes for Answers. An ocean fish is declining in marine water but thriving in fresh water, except in some lakes during the summer. That's a paradox, and so is the fact that many of the experts who understand what's going on with this coastal fish reside in the hills of East Tennessee.
- Cable-in-Conduit Superconductors: A Story of Science in the Making. The plasma fuel of fusion reactors must be confined by the fields of powerful magnets. Means for designing internally cooled superconductors for such magnets have been developed at ORNL. During the development, ORNL 's scientists encountered a few surprises.
- Monoclonal Antibodies and Cancer. ORNL biologists have used these "magic bullets" produced by modern biotechnology to cure some mice with solid tumors. These products of the fusion of two types of cells show promise in treating and detecting some human cancers.
- Clean Water from Synfuels Plants. Synthetic fuel plants will need large volumes of water for the process of converting coal to oil. Water from the converted coal could be used but it is dirty. ORNL has tested a combination of processes that clean up the water enough for recycle or for discharge under anticipated regulations.
- The Staying Power of the High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor. The national HTGR program has faced extinction for five years but Congress continues to save it. Because of its high-temperature heat, its potential for efficient power generation, and its excellent safety features, the HTGR concept may be too good to discard.
- Health Risks of Energy Technologies: The Experts' Views. A book edited by two ORNL researchers sheds light on this volatile issue. In an interview, the two editors discuss the results and problems of risk analyses made by the experts.
- Editorial. Herman Postma critiques the critiques of national laboratories.
- Take a Number
- Lab Anecdote. Alvin Weinberg recalls the days of the last contract change.
- Books. Fusion: Science, Politics, and the Invention of a New Energy Source, reviewed by Art Snell
- Technical Capsules. How Clean is indoor air? Neutron Dosimeters; Surfaces and Defects
- Awards and Appointments
Vol. 16, No. 2, ( 1983)
- State of the Laboratory—1982. Long-Range, High-Risk, High-Payoff R&D
- Life at the End of the Periodic Table. Scientists at ORNL's Transuranium Research Laboratory are exploring the properties of heavy, man-made elements and participating in the quest for superheavy elements.
- Neutron Scattering: A Tool to Probe Biological Structures. Neutrons from reactors can be used to determine the changes that occur in giant molecules such as genes and enzymes as their environment is altered.
- Safeguarding Reprocessing Plants (Second in a series of two articles). The internal rather than the external adversary may be more of a threat.
- Take a Number
- Books. Advances in Energy Systems and Technology, reviewed by W. Fulkerson.
- Technical Capsules: Microwave Spectrometry. Help for LMFBR Designers
- Lab Anecdote. Remembrances of a Reactor Past
- Awards and Appointments