A multidisciplinary ORNL team used expertise in synthetic biology, AI-driven analysis, chemistry, neutrons and materials science to identify new members of a family of enzymes with a natural affinity for degrading synthetic nylon polymers.
Joseph M. Lukens, Nicholas A. Peters, and Raphael C.
ZAEL 1, Inc., a Miami, Florida startup, has entered into an exclusive research and development license with commercial option for an ORNL standoff spectroscopy detection system.
Raphael C. Pooser and Benjamin Lawrie have been recognized as authors of one of Optica’s top 15 most-cited papers for 2015 for "Ultrasensitive measurement of microcantilever displacement below the shot-noise limit," Optica 2, 393-399 (2015).
Efforts to bring ORNL’s wireless sensor platform to market are on target and proceeding as planned.
Achievement: Devised a novel and accurate computational technique for investigating the self-assembly of large macromolecules, and used this method to reveal the initial stages of self-assembly of the carboxysome, the prototype bacterial