Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Materials (20)
- (-) Nuclear Science and Technology (15)
- Advanced Manufacturing (2)
- Biology and Environment (16)
- Clean Energy (17)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (1)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (1)
- Fusion and Fission (6)
- Fusion Energy (6)
- Isotopes (10)
- Materials for Computing (1)
- Mathematics (1)
- National Security (7)
- Neutron Science (4)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (1)
- Quantum information Science (3)
- Supercomputing (14)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Critical Materials (5)
- (-) Isotopes (3)
- (-) Molten Salt (4)
- (-) Nuclear Energy (18)
- (-) Physics (9)
- (-) Quantum Science (1)
- (-) Space Exploration (3)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (6)
- Advanced Reactors (6)
- Bioenergy (2)
- Biomedical (3)
- Buildings (1)
- Chemical Sciences (6)
- Clean Water (1)
- Composites (4)
- Computer Science (1)
- Coronavirus (1)
- Decarbonization (1)
- Energy Storage (8)
- Environment (2)
- Fusion (5)
- Materials (15)
- Materials Science (25)
- Microscopy (9)
- Nanotechnology (12)
- Neutron Science (8)
- Polymers (8)
- Quantum Computing (2)
- Sustainable Energy (3)
- Transportation (6)
Media Contacts
ORNL scientists combined two ligands, or metal-binding molecules, to target light and heavy lanthanides simultaneously for exceptionally efficient separation.
Andrea Delgado is looking for elementary particles that seem so abstract, there appears to be no obvious short-term benefit to her research.
Researchers at ORNL zoomed in on molecules designed to recover critical materials via liquid-liquid extraction — a method used by industry to separate chemically similar elements.
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.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers serendipitously discovered when they automated the beam of an electron microscope to precisely drill holes in the atomically thin lattice of graphene, the drilled holes closed up.
Researchers at ORNL explored radium’s chemistry to advance cancer treatments using ionizing radiation.
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Momentum Technologies have piloted an industrial-scale process for recycling valuable materials in the millions of tons of e-waste generated annually in the United States.
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using state-of-the-art methods to shed light on chemical separations needed to recover rare-earth elements and secure critical materials for clean energy technologies.
Marcel Demarteau is director of the Physics Division at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For topics from nuclear structure to astrophysics, he shapes ORNL’s physics research agenda.
A developing method to gauge the occurrence of a nuclear reactor anomaly has the potential to save millions of dollars.