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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. 30, No. 3, ( 1997)
High-Performance Computing- Foreword
- The Future of High-Performance Computing
- The Center for Computational Sciences: High-Performance Computing Comes to ORNL
- Industrial-Strength Computing: ORNL's Computational Center for Industrial Innovation
- Scientific Visualization at ORNL
- Visualization and Virtual Environments Research
- Algorithms, Tools, and Software Aid Use of High-Performance Computers
- Software Components To Facilitate Application Development
- High-Performance Computing: Innovative Assistant to Science
- Computing the Genome
- Developing a Grand Challenge Materials Application Code
- How Solids Melt: ORNL Simulations Support Theory
- Giant Magnetoresistance in Layered Magnetic Materials
- Edge Dislocations in Silicon
- High-Performance Computing in Groundwater Modeling
- Analysis of Material Performance in Automotive Applications
- Optimization of Microstructure—Property Relationship in Materials
- Computational Engine Modeling
- From a Distance: Remote Operation of Research Equipment
- Crisis Management and Collaborative Computing: ORNL's Contributions
Vol. 30, No. 1, ( 1997)
State of the Laboratory- State of the Laboratory—1996
- Neutron Science and Technology Initiatives
- Life Sciences Initiative
- Computational Sciences Initiatives
- Biological Sciences
- Environmental Sciences and Technology
- Energy Production and Energy End-Use Technologies
- Instrumentation, Manufacturing, and Control Technologies
- Advanced Materials Processing, Synthesis, and Characterization
- Physical Sciences and Neutron Science and Technology
- Computational Science, Advanced Computing, and Robotics
- Robotics and Education
- Technology Transfer: CRADAs, Licenses, and Patents
- Awards and Appointments for 1996
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. 18, No. 4, ( 1985)
- Parallel Computing at ORNL. Computer scientists are learning how to use new parallel processing machines to meet ORNL's research needs. New parallel algorithms for solving large systems of equations have been developed at ORNL.
- Protecting Human Health: The Chemical Challenge. Scientists at ORNL have developed several methods of detecting human responses to hazardous energy-related chemicals. They are using interferon as a bioeffects marker and are developing the "fluoroimmunosensor," which detects minute amounts of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in body fluids and tissues.
- The Technology Transfer Fund: A Status Report on the ORNL Projects. ORNL, DOE, and the Office of Technology Applications of Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., have committed funds to stimulate innovation and bring ORNL technologies to the stage where their commercial potential can be judged. The status of five technology-transfer projects is described.
- Pion Emission from Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions. A theorist said it couldn't be done, but nuclear physicists at ORNL's Holifield Heavy Ion Research Facility accelerator have detected the emission of pions, short-lived particles that serve as the "glue" in the nucleus, from low-energy nuclear reactions. Current theory is being revised to explain how pions can be produced at unexpectedly low energies.
- Managing Hazardous Waste: ORNL Examines the Options. ORNL is playing an important role in managing the nation's defense-chemical wastes and in devising better ways of dealing with its own hazardous materials.
- Books. Chancing It: Why We Take Risks is reviewed by W. S. Lyon.
- Take a Number
- Technical Capsules. Device to measure metal deformation wins IR 100 award; technology transfer and cell freezing.
- Lab Anecdote. The story of the radiation-danger symbol.
- News Notes. ORNL Director Herman Postma talks to President Reagan; Radio Frequency Test Facility completed; Associate Director Fred Mynatt testifies on advanced reactors for space; fusion magnet facility begins 6-coil tests; Athens power-distribution experiment under way; Life Sciences Complex plans told; Cummins Engine licensing breaks new ground.
- Awards and Appointments