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Vol. 56, No. 2, (Spring 2023)
- Editorial: Making an exascale impact with Frontier
- To the Point: ORNL gets a new lab director and deputy for operations, recyclable composites help drive net-zero goal, new insights advance atomic-scale manufacturing
- Entering the Exascale Age: Exascale impact: The Frontier supercomputer gets to work, ORNL’s methodical leap into the exascale era, exascale tools for developing new reactors, OLCF teams fine-tune Frontier for science, Pioneering Frontier
- Focus on Computing: Quantifying qudits: Measurements provide glimpse of quantum future
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Cell membrane discovery heralds computing advances, anode material paves the way for fast battery charging, adsorbent material filters toxic chromium, arsenic from water supplies
- Focus on Neutrons: Add-on device makes home furnaces cleaner
- Focus on National Security: Location intelligence shines a light on disinformation
- Infographic: Scientific computing at ORNL
- Focus on Biology: Tiny, revved-up microbe tackles big plastics challenge, neutrons reveal how the spider lily preys on cancer cells
- Focus on Nuclear: East Tennessee looks to bolster nuclear workforce
- Focus on Manufacturing: 3D-printed home made from biobased materials
- Focus on Transportation: Researchers explore hydrogen power for railways
- Focus on Grid: Blockchain helps increase electric grid resiliency
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Kay Way: The mother of nuclear data
- Research Insights: Additive Manufacturing the Future, Part I: Applications for Additive Manufacturing
Vol. 56, No. 1, (Winter 2023)
- Editorial: The uniqueness of ORNL
- To the Point: Energy secretary attends isotope, facility event, racing company, licenses ORNL battery technology, existing water pipes are an untapped power source
- Focus on Computing: Frontier study could uncover new cures, treatments; accelerating drug discovery with AI; computational tools promote children’s mental health
- Focus on Neutrons: Physicists confront the neutron lifetime puzzle; neutrons show how promising peptide fights antibiotic-resistant bacteria; neutrons shed light on methane-to-methanol conversion
- Focus on National Security: Researchers use seismology, radiation detection to bolster nonproliferation efforts
- Focus on Grid: ORNL sensor research helps fight wildfires; ORNL research to bring more reliable electricity to Puerto Rican microgrids
- Focus on Climate: Predicting climate change in vulnerable neighborhoods
- Focus on Botany: Listening in on soil conversations with rhizosphere-on-a-chip
- Early Career Scientists: The best is yet to come: ORNL’s Early Career Research Program award winners
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: Libby Johnson: On the frontier for nuclear safety
- Research Insights: Toward a Carbon Neutral Future, Part II: Technologies for a more carbon-friendly future
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. 35, No. 3, ( 2002)
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?
Vol. 35, No. 2, ( 2002)
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
Vol. 35, No. 1, ( 2002)
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
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
Vol. 18, No. 3, ( 1985)
- Fractals: Realm of Monster Curves and Irregular Solids A solid-state physicist has turned to fractals to understand the strange electrical properties of the interface between an electrode and various electrolytes. He suggests that fractals—a mathematical concept that describes a large class of irregular natural objects—could be useful in other areas of ORNL research.
- Conservation as an Energy Resource: Electricity Savings from a Utility Program What are the energy and economic impacts of a utility program in the Pacific Northwest that offered homeowners incentives to reduce electricity use? An ORNL team has completed a study of the benefits and costs of such a program.
- SPECIAL SECTION: Biotechnology at ORNL
- A Question of Impurities: ORNL Examines a Persistent Fusion Problem Bob Clausing and others at ORNL have conducted studies to determine which cleaning techniques work best to remove the most obnoxious impurities from fusion vessel walls to prevent plasma energy losses.
- Transuranium-Element Production and Research For almost two decades ORNL's High Flux lsotope Reactor (HFIR) and Transuranium Processing Plant (TRU) have produced most of the transuranium elements used by researchers in the Western world. ORNL's Transuranium Research Laboratory, where research is carried out on the HFIR-TRU products, has become an international center for collaborative research. ORNL collaboration with the University of Tennessee has been particularly strong in inorganic chemistry and solid-state physics.
- Books. Freeman Dyson's Weapons and Hope is reviewed by Jack Barkenbus
- Take a Number
- News Notes. New parallel-processing computer at ORNL; uranium wastes solidified at Laboratory; ORNL agents tested in European patients; High-Temperature Materials Laboratory inaugurated; Technology Transfer briefs
- Awards and Appointments