Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Clean Energy (37)
- Biology and Environment (35)
- Biology and Soft Matter (1)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (1)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Fusion and Fission (4)
- Isotopes (16)
- Materials (16)
- Materials for Computing (3)
- National Security (11)
- Neutron Science (7)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (2)
- Supercomputing (36)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Climate Change (8)
- (-) Critical Materials (1)
- (-) Energy Storage (24)
- (-) Fossil Energy (1)
- (-) High-Performance Computing (2)
- (-) Mathematics (1)
- (-) Security (3)
- (-) Space Exploration (1)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (25)
- Advanced Reactors (2)
- Artificial Intelligence (2)
- Big Data (1)
- Bioenergy (10)
- Biology (4)
- Biomedical (2)
- Biotechnology (1)
- Buildings (14)
- Chemical Sciences (3)
- Clean Water (3)
- Composites (2)
- Computer Science (7)
- Coronavirus (6)
- Cybersecurity (5)
- Decarbonization (18)
- Environment (20)
- Grid (15)
- Materials (5)
- Materials Science (5)
- Mercury (1)
- Microelectronics (1)
- Microscopy (2)
- Nanotechnology (2)
- National Security (1)
- Net Zero (1)
- Neutron Science (3)
- Nuclear Energy (2)
- Partnerships (4)
- Polymers (1)
- Quantum Science (1)
- Simulation (1)
- Summit (2)
- Sustainable Energy (16)
- Transportation (21)
Media Contacts
The formation of lithium dendrites is still a mystery, but materials engineers study the conditions that enable dendrites and how to stop them.
Ionic conduction involves the movement of ions from one location to another inside a material. The ions travel through point defects, which are irregularities in the otherwise consistent arrangement of atoms known as the crystal lattice. This sometimes sluggish process can limit the performance and efficiency of fuel cells, batteries, and other energy storage technologies.
The use of lithium-ion batteries has surged in recent years, starting with electronics and expanding into many applications, including the growing electric and hybrid vehicle industry. But the technologies to optimize recycling of these batteries have not kept pace.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have developed a crucial component for a new kind of low-cost stationary battery system utilizing common materials and designed for grid-scale electricity storage. Large, economical electricity storage systems can benefit the nation’s grid ...
As leader of the RF, Communications, and Cyber-Physical Security Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Kerekes heads an accelerated lab-directed research program to build virtual models of critical infrastructure systems like the power grid that can be used to develop ways to detect and repel cyber-intrusion and to make the network resilient when disruption occurs.
For the past six years, some 140 scientists from five institutions have traveled to the Arctic Circle and beyond to gather field data as part of the Department of Energy-sponsored NGEE Arctic project. This article gives insight into how scientists gather the measurements that inform t...
Last November a team of students and educators from Robertsville Middle School in Oak Ridge and scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory submitted a proposal to NASA for their Cube Satellite Launch Initiative in hopes of sending a student-designed nanosatellite named RamSat into...