Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Materials (20)
- (-) Nuclear Science and Technology (3)
- (-) Transportation Systems (1)
- Advanced Manufacturing (4)
- Biology and Environment (11)
- Clean Energy (34)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (1)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (8)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (1)
- Fusion and Fission (1)
- Fusion Energy (4)
- National Security (10)
- Neutron Science (11)
- Quantum information Science (2)
- Supercomputing (30)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Advanced Reactors (4)
- (-) Computer Science (3)
- (-) Grid (1)
- (-) Materials Science (10)
- (-) Microscopy (3)
- (-) Transportation (7)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (4)
- Artificial Intelligence (1)
- Bioenergy (1)
- Buildings (2)
- Chemical Sciences (8)
- Clean Water (2)
- Composites (3)
- Critical Materials (3)
- Decarbonization (1)
- Energy Storage (6)
- Environment (5)
- Fusion (5)
- Isotopes (2)
- Materials (17)
- Molten Salt (1)
- Nanotechnology (6)
- Neutron Science (9)
- Nuclear Energy (15)
- Partnerships (3)
- Physics (7)
- Polymers (4)
- Quantum Computing (2)
- Space Exploration (2)
- Sustainable Energy (4)
Media Contacts
Electric vehicles can drive longer distances if their lithium-ion batteries deliver more energy in a lighter package. A prime weight-loss candidate is the current collector, a component that often adds 10% to the weight of a battery cell without contributing energy.
In fiscal year 2023 — Oct. 1–Sept. 30, 2023 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory was awarded more than $8 million in technology maturation funding through the Department of Energy’s Technology Commercialization Fund, or TCF.
Speakers, scientific workshops, speed networking, a student poster showcase and more energized the Annual User Meeting of the Department of Energy’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, or CNMS, Aug. 7-10, near Market Square in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee.
Dean Pierce of ORNL and a research team led by ORNL’s Alex Plotkowski were honored by DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office for development of novel high-performance alloys that can withstand extreme environments.
ORNL scientists found that a small tweak created big performance improvements in a type of solid-state battery, a technology considered vital to broader electric vehicle adoption.
A scientific instrument at ORNL could help create a noninvasive cancer treatment derived from a common tropical plant.
Warming a crystal of the mineral fresnoite, ORNL scientists discovered that excitations called phasons carried heat three times farther and faster than phonons, the excitations that usually carry heat through a material.
Critical Materials Institute researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Arizona State University studied the mineral monazite, an important source of rare-earth elements, to enhance methods of recovering critical materials for energy, defense and manufacturing applications.
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated that an additively manufactured polymer layer, when applied to carbon fiber reinforced plastic, or CFRP, can serve as an effective protector against aircraft lightning strikes.
As scientists study approaches to best sustain a fusion reactor, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory investigated injecting shattered argon pellets into a super-hot plasma, when needed, to protect the reactor’s interior wall from high-energy runaway electrons.