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. 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. 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. 47, No. 2, (Fall 2014)

Capitalizing on a new research model

Editorial: Institutes provide a new avenue for research collaborations
Features: Capitalizing on a new research model ... Climate Change Science Institute breaks research barriers to build options for a changing world ... Imaging institute examines materials atom by atom ... ORNL institute will transform Big Data into sustainable solutions for urban living ... Understanding big data: New partnerships support health care innovation ... Going off grid: Integrated energy systems research rethinks reliance on traditional electric grid ... Sharing scientific vision: The Joint Institutes
Wigner Distinguished Lecture Series: Craig Barrett ... Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Research Horizons: ORNL study reveals new characteristics of complex oxide surfaces ... ORNL, UTGSM study compares structures of Huntington’s disease protein ... Data gathered with high-energy X-ray telescope support the SASI model—a decade later

Vol. 47, No. 1, (Winter 2014)

Neutrons and Bioscience

Editorial: Neutrons and bioscience
Features: Advancing the science of materials ... A broad approach to green tech ... Building better biofuels ... All eyes on the Arctic ... Biological boundaries ... Tailoring the poplar genome to biofuel production ... Seeking sustainability ... The Wigner Distinguished Lecture Series in Science, Technology, and Policy
A Closer Look: Daniel Close
Research Horizons: Solar surprise ... 3D printing yields advantages for US ITER engineers ... Novel ORNL technique enables air-stable water droplet networks

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