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Vol. 49, No. 3, (Fall 2016)
Empowering our next generation- Editorial: Empowering our next generation
- To the point: The consequences of vehicle automation, from childhood tinkerer to supercomputing expert, carbon releases in the Arctic, and more
- Early-Career Researchers at ORNL: Looking to the future of science ... When soils exhale ... Where there's a willow, there's a way ... Computing by the atom ... Better computing through math
- Focus on Manufacturing: Printed components benefit from manufacturing–computing collaboration
- Focus on Transportation: Plug-free wireless charging demonstrated at ORNL
- Infographic: Carbon Fiber Technology Facility
- Focus on Computing: Broadening the bilayer ... Biofuel researchers use Titan to probe ‘lignin shield’
- Focus on Physical Sciences: ORNL researchers invent a tougher plastic—and it’s 50 percent renewable too ... Halogen atom competition leads researchers toward better solar films
- Focus on Neutrons: Neutron ‘splashes’ reveal signature of exotic particles
- Focus on Nuclear: Charmed half-life: Target used to discover element 117 took a circuitous route to Russia
- Focus on Imaging: Building better geothermal models
- Focus on Buildings: ORNL refrigerator cools with magnetism, not Freon
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturers: Alton Romig Jr.
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: The short life of a neutron
Vol. 49, No. 2, (Fall 2016)
The past, present and future of clean energy R&D- Editorial: The past, present and future of clean energy R&D
- To the point: Partnering with business, unleashing solar power, personal achievements, and more
- ORNL and Clean Energy Research: ORNL and clean energy, In praise of the power grid, ORNL researchers go for a big impact, Grad students create biotech company
- Focus on Quantum Computing: Staying ahead of Moore’s law
- Focus on Critical Materials: Two birds, one stone
- Infographic: ORNL Clean Energy Collaborations: ORNL regional partnerships
- Focus on Medical Isotopes: Methods for medicine
- Focus on Nuclear: Researchers re-create reactor in virtual form, Materials research brings fusion power closer to reality
- Focus on Physical SciencesSolvents save steps in solar cell manufacturing
- Focus on ComputingModeling next-generation lasers for tumor removal, Simulating tumor cells, sickle cell anemia and drug delivery
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished LecturersRoald Hoffmann, Andrew Briggs
- Why Science? Young researchers tell us
- Time Warp: Oil crisis in ‘70s highlighted need for coherent energy policy
Vol. 49, No. 1, (Spring 2016)
ORNL science is helping the environment- Editorial: ORNL finds solutions to environmental problems
- To the Point: Giant biosimulations, “white 2 graphene,” a national park, and more
- ORNL Science Protects the Environment: Finding scientific solutions to environmental problems ... ORNL process isolates troublesome cesium ... Researchers use soybean oil to reduce uranium in groundwater
- Infographic: Vehicle Systems Integration Laboratory: Vehicle analysis without the vehicle
- Focus on Mercury: ORNL scientists solve the mystery of mercury
- Focus on Computing: Building bacteria’s photosynthetic engine ... Shining a light on subsurface flows
- Focus on Health: Cataloging drug candidates at the petascale
- Focus on HFIR: Beautiful refueling
- Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturers: Frances H. Arnold ... C.N.R. Rao
- Why Science?: Young researchers tell us
- Time Warp: Molten Salt Reactor Experiment: Alvin Weinberg’s magnum opus
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. 21, No. 4, ( 1988)
Waste Management and Remedial Action- A New Way of Doing Business: An Interview with Tom Row
- The DOE Model
- The Energy Systems Approach
- Improving Waste Management Operations
- Waste Management Technology Center
- The Hazardous Waste Technology Program
- PCB-Eating Microbes
- Radioactive Waste Management R&D
- Grouts Solve Disposal Problems
- ORNL's New Environmental Projects
- Remedial Actions for ORNL's Environment
- QA in Waste Management
- Loss of Coolant: ORNL's Role in a Key Reactor Safety Experiment
- Awards and Appointments
- Books. ORNL researcher's book discusses the economics of recycling plastic waste
- R&D Updates. Roof Research Center dedicated; leaking Georgia cesium capsules probed
- Take a Number
- Technical Highlights. Two 1988 R&D 100 Awards for Oak Ridge; new ORELA positron source operating
- Technology Transfer. Triple-effect absorption chiller and diagnostic device licensed
Vol. 21, No. 3, ( 1988)
Supercomputers in Scientific Research- Supercomputers in Scientific Research
- Energy for Development: ORNL Returns to the Third World
- Designer Steels for Advanced Energy Applications
- New DNA Stain Aids Cell Studies
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
- Books. Chaos, by James Gleick, reviewed by Woody Gove
- R&D Updates. Alvin Trivelpiece: ORNL's new director; two HHIRF devices operating; tritium pellet injector for fusion demonstrated; DOE Superconductivity Pilot Center located at ORNL
- Technical Highlights. Hood River Conservation Project an energy-saving success; decline in tree growth linked to aluminum "freed" from soil by acid rain
- Technology Transfer. Valley-Todeco licensed to make aircraft fasteners from ORNL alloy; metallamics to manufacture nickel aluminide products
Vol. 21, No. 2, ( 1988)
State of the Laboratory- State of the Laboratory: "Gee Whiz". Ceramics strengthened by microwaves, superconducting films, a computer program featuring a "bug" that learns, a microbe that destroys PCBs in soil, a laser having a tuning range 2000 times greater than its commercial counterpart, an energy-efficient liquid separation system, and chemically produced whiskers that strengthen ceramics are "gee whiz" achievements in 1987. In his final State of the Laboratory address as ORNL director, Herman Postma challenges the staff to set new directions and learn from past mistakes.
- Susan Whatley: From Fast Track to Slow Boat. Impelled by economic necessity and an enthusiasm for learning, Susan Whatley rose from secretary to engineer to manager to professional society president in a short time. Now retired, she and her husband are sailing around the world. Accompanying articles tell about ORNL's mentoring program and progress in affirmative action.
- Imaging the World's Longest Dinosaur. An ORNL acoustic technique for imaging underground features has determined the precise positions of buried bones of the longest dinosaur ever discovered and should help guide and hasten the excavation of this Seismosaurus.
- Awards and Appointments
- Take a Number
- Books. The Making of the Atomic Bomb is reviewed. Recent books authored or edited by ORNL staff members are listed.
- Technical Highlights. HFIR shutdown stops production of californium-252. A robot-like manipulator for NASA is being built at ORNL.
- R&D Updates. The HTML wins an award from Research & Development. Tumulus disposal of low-level wastes has been demonstrated.
- Technology Transfer. An ORNL surveying system has been licensed to Chemrad Corporation. 1987 patentees from ORNL are listed.
Vol. 21, No. 1, ( 1988)
Transferring ORNL Technology- Toward a "Technological Commons"
- A New Licensing Approach
- Industrial R&D Consortia
- Local ORNL Spin-off Companies
- Designing Chips by Computer. ORNL is custom designing microchips for specific uses, such as tracking the migration of killer bees, due in the United States by next year.
- Images of the Heart. New developments from ORNL's Nuclear Medicine Group will improve diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases and aid in cancer detection.
- "We Have the Best People Around": Interview with Associate Director Robert Merriman. Bob Merriman discusses his new job, nuclear power, ORNL's environmental problems, robotics, SDI research, and AVLIS for uranium enrichment.
- Microwave Processing of Ceramics: An Interdisciplinary Approach. High-frequency microwaves may be used to strengthen large, already-formed ceramic parts having complex shapes.
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
- Books. Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer is reviewed.
- R&D Updates. Athens Automation and Control Experiment proves successful; impact statement completed on disposal of chemical weapons; the Advanced Toroidal Facility achieves its first plasma
- Technology Transfer. U.S. steelmaker acquires rights for use of ORNL alloy.
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