Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Biology and Environment (65)
- (-) National Security (21)
- Advanced Manufacturing (2)
- Clean Energy (79)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (1)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (2)
- Fusion and Fission (2)
- Isotopes (1)
- Materials (36)
- Materials for Computing (3)
- Neutron Science (13)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (1)
- Quantum information Science (1)
- Supercomputing (37)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Bioenergy (20)
- (-) Biology (34)
- (-) Cybersecurity (13)
- (-) Energy Storage (6)
- (-) Environment (36)
- (-) Machine Learning (9)
- (-) Mercury (3)
- (-) Net Zero (2)
- (-) Summit (4)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (9)
- Advanced Reactors (2)
- Artificial Intelligence (11)
- Big Data (2)
- Biomedical (9)
- Biotechnology (7)
- Buildings (2)
- Chemical Sciences (12)
- Clean Water (4)
- Climate Change (15)
- Composites (4)
- Computer Science (17)
- Coronavirus (9)
- Critical Materials (1)
- Decarbonization (6)
- Exascale Computing (2)
- Frontier (1)
- Fusion (2)
- Grid (3)
- High-Performance Computing (11)
- Hydropower (2)
- Isotopes (2)
- Materials (11)
- Materials Science (7)
- Mathematics (2)
- Microscopy (7)
- Molten Salt (1)
- Nanotechnology (5)
- National Security (21)
- Neutron Science (4)
- Nuclear Energy (4)
- Partnerships (8)
- Physics (3)
- Polymers (2)
- Quantum Science (1)
- Security (7)
- Simulation (7)
- Sustainable Energy (11)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (1)
- Transportation (3)
Media Contacts
A team of scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered the specific gene that controls an important symbiotic relationship between plants and soil fungi, and successfully facilitated the symbiosis in a plant that
![Using as much as 50 percent lignin by weight, a new composite material created at ORNL is well suited for use in 3D printing. Using as much as 50 percent lignin by weight, a new composite material created at ORNL is well suited for use in 3D printing.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2018-P09551.jpg?itok=q7Ri01Qb)
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a recipe for a renewable 3D printing feedstock that could spur a profitable new use for an intractable biorefinery byproduct: lignin.
![ORNL Image](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2017-P04962.jpg?h=dafbaa5b&itok=kG3bP2Q9)
Working backwards has moved Josh Michener’s research far forward as he uses evolution and genetics to engineer microbes for better conversion of plants into biofuels and biochemicals. In his work for the BioEnergy Science Center at ORNL, for instance, “we’ve gotten good at engineering microbes th...