ORNL Review Archive

New Pathways to Research
- Materials Research at ORNL: A Distinguished Past, A Bright Future (Editorial by Jim Roberto)
- HTML User Centers Help U.S. Industry
- HFIR’s Cold Neutrons for New Materials Insights
- SNS Instruments for Materials Research
- Leading Nanofab Lab for ORNL
- Mapping Materials in 3D Using X rays
- Seeing the Unseen in a New Microscope Lab
- Environmentally Quiet Building
- Award-Winning Characterization Tool
- From Ordinary Alloys to Extraordinary Materials
- Niche Applications for ORNL’s Nickel Aluminides
- ORNL Breaks into Metallic Glass Field
- Materials Processing Using ORNL’s Powerful Lamp
- Making Better Billets
- Synthesizing Polymers to Make Sensors
- Nanoporous Materials for Novel Catalysts
- Exploring Carbon Nanotubes
- Self-Assembled Film for Aligning Carbon Nanotubes
- How Do Carbon Nanotubes Grow?
- Carbon Nanotubes and Chemistry
- Improving Superconductors and Semiconductors
- Unlocking Mysteries of the Nanoscale
- Neutron Science, Nanoscience, and New Simulations
- Predicting a Model Weld
- Novel Materials for Homeland Security
- Hot Spotter: Detecting Radiation from Suspicious Packages
- Faster Computers through Carbon Foam?

Energy Security
- Editorial: Energy Security—Providing Secure Energy Supplies and Protecting Our Energy Infrastructure
- Nuclear Energy: Assuring Future Energy Supplies
- Methane Extraction and Carbon Sequestration
- Gas Pipeline Safety: ORNL’s Role
- Energy from Biomass: Nature’s Power
- Fuel Cells for Buildings and Vehicles
- Clean Coal Power Technologies
- ORNL and Oil Research
- Water and Energy Security
- The Future of Fusion Energy: Meeting National Energy Goals
- ORNL Technologies for Energy Infrastructure Assurance
- Optical Seals for Containers
- Responding to Energy-Related Emergencies
- Power Grid of the Future
- Improving the Global Standard of Living: Aid from ORNL

Supercomputing for Science
- Supercomputing for Science—ORNL’s Commitment to Scientific Discovery
- A National Resource at ORNL: Supercomputers Support Superb Science
- ORNL’s Powerful Tools for Scientific Discovery
- New Home Planned for 10-Teraflops Supercomputer
- Developing Computer Tools for Scientists
- ORNL Leads Effort to Build Better Supercomputer Centers
- From the Stone Age to the Lego Block Age of Computing
- ORNL, IBM, and the Blue Gene Project
- Evaluating Supercomputer Performance
- Retaining and Retrieving Data More Effectively
- Networking: Making Faster Connections among Supercomputers
- Networking for More Powerful Supercomputers
- Visualization Tools: Interacting with Data in Many Dimensions
- Collaborations and Partnerships
- Modeling Magnetic Materials
- The Science Grid
- Designing Electronic Devices Using Supercomputers
- Simulating Supernovae on Supercomputers
- Probing Cells by Computer
- Modeling Blood Flow during CPR
- World-Class Climate Modeling
- SciDAC Funding for Local Climate Modelers
- Chemical Experiments and Predictions by Computer
- Computer Modeling Aids Understanding of Plasma Physics
- Car Crash Simulations May Improve Vehicle Efficiency
- Evaluating Vehicle Emissions Controls
- Computer Modeling and Homeland Security

Transportation Research
- Editorial: Putting East Tennessee on the Transportation Research Map
- NTRC: Accelerating the Transportation Revolution
- Toward a Cleaner Diesel Vehicle
- An Emissions Mission: Solving the Sulfur Problem
- New User Facility Has Old (But Excellent) Instruments
- Truck Brake Tester Could Boost Highway Safety
- Better Ways to Weigh Trucks
- Carbon-Fiber Composites for Cars
- Supercomputers Help Model Cars in Collisions
- Power Electronics: Energy Manager for Hybrid Electric Vehicles
- Is There a ‘Green’ Car in Your Future?
- Biological Ways of Producing Ethanol
- Aviation Research Takes Off at ORNL
- Packaging and Transporting Hazardous Materials
- Transportation Planners Aided by GIS Research
- Defense Transportation and Logistics Research
- Software Tools Will Help Emergency Responders
- E-Commerce’s Impacts on Transportation
- Learning Smart Ways to Use Intelligent Transportation Systems
- UT Goal: Safer Trips
- Mass Spectrometer Can Detect Weapons of Mass Destruction
- ORNL’s Graphite Foam May Aid Transportation
- Microfocusing Mirrors May Advance Materials Science

Carbon Management
- Editorial: ORNL Could Be DOE Leader in Carbon Management
- Managing Carbon: ORNL's Research Roles
- Producing and Detecting Hydrogen
- New Hydrogen-Producing Reaction Could Lead to Micropower Sources
- Fuel Cells: Clean Power Source for Homes and Cars?
- Capturing Carbon the ORNL Way
- Boosting Bioenergy and Carbon Storage in Green Plants
- Land Use and Climate Change
- Plunging into Carbon Sequestration Research
- Methane Hydrates: A Carbon Management Challenge
- Adapting to Climate Change
- High-Carbon Tree Growth Rate Falls
- Reshaping the Bottle for Fusion Energy
- Building a Transistor That Doesn't Forget
- New Type of Radioactivity Discovered at ORNL
- Forecasting Epileptic Seizures
- Lynne Parker's Cooperative Robots
- Mercury Beyond Oak Ridge
- A Disrupted Organic Film: Could Memories Be Made of This?
- ORNL's Powerful Tools for Scientific Discovery
- Breaking a Record for Analysis of Atoms

Virtual Human: Science at the Interface
- Editorial: Science at the Interface
- Science at the Interface: A Roundtable Discussion
- Center for Structural and Molecular Biology Open to Users
- The Virtual Human Project: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
- The Spallation Neutron Source: A Challenging Year
- Neutrino Detector Laboratory To Be Proposed for ORNL
- Turbine Renewal: Shaping an Emerging Gas-Fired Power Source
- Heat Pumps: Getting the Most Energy Bang for the Buck
- Combined Solar Light and Power for Illuminating Buildings
- What's in a Chromosome? Tune in to the Genome Channel
- Microbial Functional Genomics and Waste Site Bioremediation
- Human Improvement
- Infrared Processing Center: Industrial Interest Heats Up
- How Much Stuff is Made in Stellar Explosions? ORNL's Answer
- Electronic License Could Reduce Drunken Driving


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

- Magnetic Fusion Progress: A History and Review
- Introducing Methanol-Fueled Vehicles
- Ultrasonic Diffraction Tomography for Imaging Tumors
- Take a Number
- Technical Capsules. EPA adopts ORNL test to determine hazardous-waste toxicity; ORNL computer model demonstrates learning; antibody-laser technique may detect toxic chemicals; five Oak Ridge developments win 1987 IR 100 awards.
- News Notes. Restart plans for HFIR, other reactors; Numerical Linear Algebra Year observed; 11th Distinguished Scientist named; ORNL researchers facilitate cleanup at TMI; compression of ORNL waste demonstrated; stimulating transfer of ORNL technologies.
- Books. The Dragon's Tail: Radiation Safety in the Manhattan Project is reviewed.
- Awards and Appointments