ORNL Review Archive
Titan Rising
- Editorial: Driving R&D through supercomputing
- Features: Solvable problems ... Moving to Titan ... Programming Titan ... Virtual reactor ... Joining forces for biofuels ... Behind the data ... Climate models for a changing world ... Modeling material defects
- A Closer View: Jeff Nichols
- Research Horizons Oxygen-23 Loses Its Halo ... ORNL/UTK Team Maps the Nuclear Landscape
Innovation Nation
- Editorial: Generating Innovation
- Features: Innovation drives the nation ... Printing out the future ... Next-gen engineers ... Synergistic R&D ... Strategic science ... Competitive advantage ... Keeping it fresh ... 10,000 feet down ... Waterproof warriors
- A Closer View: Lonnie Love
- Research Horizons: GE turbomachinery ... Titan rising
Zoom in on Nanoscience
- Editorial: Nanoscience in the 21st century
- Features: Creative synergy ... Vascular voyage ... Better batteries from the ground up ... Probing nanopores ... Designing materials for the future ... Speed-reading DNA ... A closer look at catalysts ... Molecular machinery
- A Closer View: Sean Smith
- Research Horizons: Quantum advantage
Imaging Surfaces
- Reinventing Ceramic Production
- ORNL's Magic Bullets: On Target for Health
- Tumor-Fighting Genes and Chemical Health Risks
- Strategies for Radwaste Management
- Awards and Appointments
- Take a Number: On letting computers make decisions
- User Facilities: Building Envelope Research Center
- Educational Activities: "Adventures in Supercomputing" for students; educational networks
- R&D Updates
- Technical Highlights
- Technology Transfer
High-Temperature Ceramics
- Scurfy Mice: A Model for Autoimmune Disease
- The Fate of Nutrients in Streams
- New Uses for ORNL's Ultrasensitive Mass Spectrometer
- Regulation of Carcinogens: The Problem and a Solution
- Intelligent Robots! Do We Need Them and Can They Be Built?
- Awards and Appointments
- Pick a Number: Modeling subsurface processes
- User Facilities: 100,000 hours of Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator operation
- Educational Activities: ORNL researchers meet youngsters at the Environmental Fair
- R&D Updates
- Technical Highlights
- Technology Transfer
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
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
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
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