ORNL Review Archive

Vol. 50, No. 3, (Fall 2017)

Science and Security

Editorial: Science and security
To the Point: ORNL welcomes new lab director and deputy for science, bacteria breaks down methylmercury, and neutrons and an elusive quantum state
National Security at ORNL: The science behind national security, new marching orders: Fast-attack submarine officer and F-35 test pilots among those with one-year assignments at lab, eye of the beholder: Identity science comes of age, have you seen these genes?
Focus on Computing: Titan digs deep with 3-D map of Earth's interior, virtual laser lab simulations create new insight
Infographic: The promise of exascale computing
Focus on Nuclear: Nuclear startup aided by high-performance computing
Focus on Cybersecurity: Guarding the grid: Exploring methods to protect critical infrastructure
Focus on Neutrons: Start your engines: Neutrons get a look inside a running engine, neutrons zero in on elusive magnetic Majorana fermion
Focus on Biology: Neutrons provide the first nanoscale look at a living cell membrane
Focus on Physical Sciences: More efficient turbine engines trace roots back a quarter century, small nanoparticles have surprisingly big effects on polymer nanocomposites
Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturer: Thomas Friedman
Why Science? Young researchers explain
Time War: ORNL, Rickover and the nuclear Navy

Vol. 50, No. 2, (Spring 2017)

Fundamental science at ORNL

Editorial: ORNL is fundamentally strong
To the Point: ‘Mouse House’ inspires breakthrough research, automation aids space fuel production, and nickel-78 is ‘doubly magic’
Fundamental Science at ORNL: Fundamentally strong: ORNL dives into basic science ... Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility: Tackling big questions with computation ... Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences: Small worlds, big discoveries ... ORNL’s Neutron Science User Facilities: Neutrons unlock the mysteries of materials
Focus on Neutrons: Neutrons and quantum spin liquids: Exploring the next materials revolution
Focus on Neutrinos: Lab in a gold mine looks at matter– antimatter imbalance
Infographic: Why is there matter?
Focus on Data: Cancer research accelerates via deep learning
Focus on Nuclear: ALICE experiment re-creates the universe’s first split second ... Superior supercomputer parallelism for subatomic particle research
Focus on Physical Sciences: Quantum materials promise exciting technologies for energy and electronics
Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturer: Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian
Researcher Spotlight: Batteries and fertilizer: A conversation with ORNL chemist Gabriel Veith
Why Science? Young researchers explain
Time Warp: Liane Russell, pioneer of fetal rad safety

Vol. 50, No. 1, (Winter 2017)

Big opportunities at the nanoscale

Editorial: Big opportunities at the nanoscale
To the Point: Spallation Neutron Source turns 10, tennessine joins the periodic table, and a happy accident advances ethanol production
Tiny Scale, Giant Accomplishments: Exploring the 2-D nanomaterials frontier ... high-impact MIT research comes to ORNL ... Oak Ridge company to produce graphene in mass ... skilled researchers using advanced microscopes
Focus on Computing: ORNL system unites imaging and computing in search for new materials ... team uses Titan to improve fission modeling
Infographic: New technologies to make your home more efficient
Focus on Imaging: Seeing through concrete
Focus on Neutrons: Neutrino experiments explore the unknown with ORNL expertise, equipment
Focus on Physical Sciences: Scientists find a cheaper way to extract uranium from seawater ... Speedy ion conduction in solid electrolytes clears road for advanced
energy devices
Focus on Nuclear: Indispensable nuclear modeling software gets a makeover
Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturers: Brad Filippone ... Charles Holliday
Why Science? Young researchers explain
Time Warp: Weinberg takes a flier on computing at ORNL

Vol. 48, No. 2, (Summer 2015)

Boosting the economy with ORNL tech

Editorial: Boosting the economy with ORNL tech
To the Point: Better graphene, tunable polymers, a better yeast, and more
Boosting High-Tech Business: ORNL shares its know-how ... ORNL national reach ... Technology in the wider economy ... ORNL tech successes ... Who is ORNL’s next big tech success story?
Focus on Nuclear: An isotope for space exploration ... Controlling ITER with fuelers, ticklers and terminators
Infographic: Powering Space Exploration: From Oak Ridge to Pluto and beyond
Focus on Neutrons: The pressure is on ... Neutron scientists explain the magnetism of plutonium
Focus on Physical Sciences: Helium ‘balloons’ harness 18 complex materials ... Atomic shaking turns an insulator into a metal ... Scientists develop promising oxygen ‘sponge’
Focus on Integrated Energy Demonstration: All together now
Focus on Climate: Landmark SPRUCE experiment expected to clarify ecosystem responses to climate change
Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturers: Siegfried Hecker ... Harold Kroto
Why Science? Young researchers tell us
Time Warp: Alvin Weinberg and scientific diplomacy in the Cold War

Vol. 48, No. 1, (Winter 2015)

Growing with ORNL's science and technology

Editorial: Growing with ORNL's science and technology
To the Point: Nuclear collaboration, tropical forest study, and more
A Leap Forward for Supercomputing: Summit will take computing to new heights ... Titan has a very good year ... Superconductor simulated without cutting corners ... Titan simulates the complexities of engines ... Team builds the Milky Way, star by star
Focus on Neutrons: Sleuthing with neutrons
Close-Up: The Spallation Neutron Source
Focus on Transportation: Framework helps cars, traffic lights communicate ... Heat engine gets modern makeover for car and home ...
Focus on Physical Sciences: Researchers build a better atom trap ... Penciling patterns in polymers at the nanoscale
Focus on Buildings: Collaboration works to keep the warm side warm and the cool side cool ... Cheap sensors improve indoor environment ... Researchers use neutron imaging to peek inside heat exchanger
Focus on ITER: US ITER pushes ahead
Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturers : Susan Soloman ... Ada Yonath
Why Science? Young researchers tell us
Time Warp: HFIR turns 50

Vol. 45, No. 3, (Fall 2012)

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

Vol. 45, No. 2, (Spring 2012)

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

Vol. 45, No. 1, (Winter 2012)

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

Vol. 31, No. 1, ( 1998)

State of the Laboratory

Vol. 23, No. 4, ( 1990)

Disorder in Crystal Surfaces

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