Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Biology and Environment (4)
- (-) Materials (52)
- Advanced Manufacturing (2)
- Biological Systems (2)
- Building Technologies (2)
- Clean Energy (48)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (2)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (1)
- Fossil Energy (1)
- Fuel Cycle Science and Technology (1)
- Fusion Energy (1)
- National Security (2)
- Neutron Science (26)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (14)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (1)
- Sensors and Controls (2)
- Supercomputing (23)
News Topics
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (2)
- Bioenergy (1)
- Biomedical (3)
- Composites (2)
- Computer Science (1)
- Energy Storage (1)
- Fusion (1)
- Grid (1)
- Isotopes (5)
- Materials Science (7)
- Microscopy (4)
- Nanotechnology (6)
- Neutron Science (3)
- Nuclear Energy (2)
- Physics (4)
- Polymers (3)
- Space Exploration (1)
- Transportation (1)
Media Contacts
![Oak Ridge National Laboratory bioinformatics researcher Dan Jacobson plugs AI, deep learning into biosystems. Oak Ridge National Laboratory bioinformatics researcher Dan Jacobson plugs AI, deep learning into biosystems.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/DanJacobson.jpg?itok=39-Nscun)
Dan Jacobson is illuminating the workings of biological systems from the molecular scale up by leveraging Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s supercomputing resources to create machine- and deep-learning techniques more easily understood by humans
![Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher Halil Tekinalp combines silanes and polylactic acid to create supertough renewable plastic. Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher Halil Tekinalp combines silanes and polylactic acid to create supertough renewable plastic.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/02%20Materials-Supertough_bioplastic.jpg?itok=64jAyN8y)
A novel method developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory creates supertough renewable plastic with improved manufacturability. Working with polylactic acid, a biobased plastic often used in packaging, textiles, biomedical implants and 3D printing, the research team added tiny amo...
![Fossil_energy_ORNL3.jpg Fossil_energy_ORNL3.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Fossil_energy_ORNL3.jpg?itok=jVslmxRP)
![shape-memory conductors shape-memory conductors](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Screen%20Shot%202017-12-22%20at%202.01.38%20PM.jpg?itok=MBU7cvsD)
A novel approach that creates a renewable, leathery material—programmed to remember its shape—may offer a low-cost alternative to conventional conductors for applications in sensors and robotics. To make the bio-based, shape-memory material, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists streamlined a solvent-free process that mixes rubber with lignin—the by-product of woody plants used to make biofuels.
![Neutrons-Exotic_particles.jpg Neutrons-Exotic_particles.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Neutrons-Exotic_particles.jpg?itok=9vxFNwzw)