Scientific Achievement: Weakly solvating electrolytes revealed that reduced Li⁺ solvent coordination promotes stable anion-derived interphases, improving Li deposition and electrochemical stability.
Scientific Achievement: Laser pumping combined with inelastic neutron scattering reveals long-living nonequilibrium magnons in a 2D Heisenberg antiferromagnet that break detailed balance in the structure factor and form steady states un
Scientific Achievement: Molecular beam epitaxy and first principles calculations demonstrate that substrate termination can be used to control the crystal phase and functional properties.
Researchers at ORNL developed a method to convert a commonly discarded hydrocarbon polymer into gasoline- and diesel-like fuels.
Scientific Achievement: Accurate many-body calculations predict a disorder transition in MnBi₂Te₄ involving Bi(Mn) antisites well below its synthesis temperature.
Scientific Achievement: Discovered nanoscale exciton confinement in a monolayer 2D semiconductor induced by electron-beam patterning via an unconventional electrostatic gating effect.
Scientific Achievement: Mo isotope labeling and molecular dynamics (MD) calculations revealed how vdW interactions with the substrate control the synthesis pathway of bilayer MoS2 – driving underlayer growth on SiO2
New research from ORNL, in collaboration with The Ohio State University and Amphenol Corporation, challenges conventional understanding about controlling heat flow in solid materials.
Scientific Achievement: Identified mesoscale phase separation and a corresponding variation of magnetic anisotropy driving the formation of spin textures in high-ordering temperature ferromagnet Fe5-xGeTe2 (FGT).
Scientific Achievement: Understanding how Bi2Se3 bonds to 1D atomic scale steps enables growth of single-domain topological insulator films without twin defects.