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Fernanda Foertter: Hackathons Reflect Interests, Learning Style

June 17, 2016

Fernanda Foertter, a user support specialist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, considers herself a tinkerer. Foertter’s tinkering started when she was a child, but her innate inquisitiveness still influences her work at the Oak

A simulation of combustion within two adjacent gas turbine combustors. GE researchers are incorporating advanced combustion modeling and simulation into product testing after developing a breakthrough methodology on the OLCF’s Titan supercomputer.

Better Combustion for Power Generation

May 31, 2016

In the United States, the use of natural gas for electricity generation continues to grow. The driving forces behind this development?

Four ORNL researchers receive DOE early career funding awards

May 3, 2016

Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers specializing in environmental, biological and computational science are among 49 recipients of Department of Energy's Office of Science Early Career Research Program awards.

Interpreting the results of collision induced dissociation (CID) experiments, simulations on Titan predict the formation of an unusually bonded uranium-nitrosyl molecule. Credit: J. Am. Chem. Society. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b02420

Chemistry Consortium Uses Titan to Understand Actinides

April 19, 2016

Radioactive materials have long been a part of American history—from the Manhattan Project to the development of nuclear power.

The Port of Virginia was one of the major ports that received diverted containers as a result of the closure of the Port of New York-New Jersey.

Transportation – Navigating around disasters

April 5, 2016

Minimizing the impact on freight movement when events like Hurricane Sandy happen is the focus of an Oak Ridge National Laboratory ongoing study led by Marc Fialkoff, a researcher in the Geographic Information Science and Technology Group.

Broadening the Bilayer

March 31, 2016

Lipid molecules have split personalities—one part loves water, whereas the other avoids it at all costs.

When a negative bias is applied to a two-dimensional MXene electrode, Li+ ions from the electrolyte migrate in the material via specific channels to the reaction sites, where the electron transfer occurs.

Advanced energy storage material gets unprecedented nanoscale analysis

March 16, 2016

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have combined advanced in-situ microscopy and theoretical calculations to uncover important clues to the properties of a promising next-generation energy storage material for

In pure water, lignin adopts a globular conformation (left) that aggregates on cellulose and blocks enzymes. In a THF-water cosolvent, lignin adopts coil conformations that are easier to remove during pretreatment. (ORNL image)

Energy – Treating biofuel in situ

March 2, 2016

Breaking down cellulosic biomass for biofuel is a costly and complex process, requiring lots of acid, water, and heat.

New HPC4Mfg projects pair manufacturers with resources at Oak Ridge, Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories. From left to right are Robin Miles, LLNL; Horst Simon, LBNL; Peter Nugent, LBNL; Trish Damkroger, LLNL; Dona Crawford, LLN

New projects pair U.S. manufacturers with ORNL computing resources

February 17, 2016

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory will support four new industry projects announced today as part of DOE’s High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program.

Researchers used experimental data to create a 23.7-million atom biomass model featuring cellulose (purple), lignin (brown), and enzymes (green). (Image credit: Mike Matheson, ORNL)

Titan Probes Depths of Biofuel’s Biggest Barrier

February 16, 2016

Ask a biofuel researcher to name the single greatest technical barrier to cost-effective ethanol, and you’re likely to receive a one-word response: lignin. Cellulosic ethanol—fuel derived from woody plants and waste biomass—has the potential to become an

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