Filter News
Area of Research
- Biology and Environment (11)
- Clean Energy (21)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (1)
- Computer Science (1)
- Fusion and Fission (6)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Isotopes (1)
- Materials (60)
- Materials Characterization (1)
- Materials for Computing (6)
- Materials Under Extremes (1)
- National Security (3)
- Neutron Science (13)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (1)
- Supercomputing (13)
News Topics
- (-) Chemical Sciences (26)
- (-) Materials Science (49)
- (-) Mercury (2)
- (-) Microscopy (16)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (43)
- Advanced Reactors (10)
- Artificial Intelligence (27)
- Big Data (7)
- Bioenergy (24)
- Biology (22)
- Biomedical (17)
- Biotechnology (7)
- Buildings (12)
- Clean Water (1)
- Climate Change (21)
- Composites (9)
- Computer Science (56)
- Coronavirus (17)
- Critical Materials (10)
- Cybersecurity (17)
- Decarbonization (17)
- Education (3)
- Element Discovery (1)
- Energy Storage (40)
- Environment (34)
- Exascale Computing (9)
- Fossil Energy (1)
- Frontier (14)
- Fusion (14)
- Grid (15)
- High-Performance Computing (25)
- Isotopes (16)
- ITER (2)
- Machine Learning (12)
- Materials (57)
- Molten Salt (2)
- Nanotechnology (26)
- National Security (16)
- Net Zero (3)
- Neutron Science (49)
- Nuclear Energy (25)
- Partnerships (25)
- Physics (24)
- Polymers (12)
- Quantum Computing (9)
- Quantum Science (27)
- Renewable Energy (1)
- Security (11)
- Simulation (8)
- Space Exploration (3)
- Statistics (1)
- Summit (20)
- Sustainable Energy (31)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (4)
- Transportation (25)
Media Contacts
In a win for chemistry, inventors at ORNL have designed a closed-loop path for synthesizing an exceptionally tough carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer, or CFRP, and later recovering all of its starting materials.
Four ORNL teams and one researcher were recognized for excellence in technology transfer and technology transfer innovation.
Four researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named ORNL Corporate Fellows in recognition of significant career accomplishments and continued leadership in their scientific fields.
Four scientists affiliated with ORNL were named Battelle Distinguished Inventors during the lab’s annual Innovation Awards on Dec. 1 in recognition of being granted 14 or more United States patents.
Caldera Holding, the owner and developer of Missouri’s Pea Ridge iron mine, has entered a nonexclusive research and development licensing agreement with ORNL to apply a membrane solvent extraction technique, or MSX, developed by ORNL researchers to mined ores.
Guided by machine learning, chemists at ORNL designed a record-setting carbonaceous supercapacitor material that stores four times more energy than the best commercial material.
In a finding that helps elucidate how molten salts in advanced nuclear reactors might behave, scientists have shown how electrons interacting with the ions of the molten salt can form three states with different properties. Understanding these states can help predict the impact of radiation on the performance of salt-fueled reactors.
ORNL has been selected to lead an Energy Earthshot Research Center, or EERC, focused on developing chemical processes that use sustainable methods instead of burning fossil fuels to radically reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions to stem climate change and limit the crisis of a rapidly warming planet.
Using light instead of heat, researchers at ORNL have found a new way to release carbon dioxide, or CO2, from a solvent used in direct air capture, or DAC, to trap this greenhouse gas. The novel approach paves the way for economically viable separation of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Quantum computers process information using quantum bits, or qubits, based on fragile, short-lived quantum mechanical states. To make qubits robust and tailor them for applications, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory sought to create a new material system.