Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Functional Materials for Energy (2)
- (-) Mathematics (1)
- (-) National Security (15)
- (-) Neutron Science (18)
- Advanced Manufacturing (1)
- Biology and Environment (61)
- Biology and Soft Matter (1)
- Clean Energy (102)
- Climate and Environmental Systems (2)
- Computational Biology (1)
- Computational Engineering (3)
- Computer Science (6)
- Electricity and Smart Grid (1)
- Energy Sciences (1)
- Fusion and Fission (7)
- Fusion Energy (1)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Isotopes (28)
- Materials (54)
- Materials for Computing (8)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (8)
- Supercomputing (96)
News Topics
- (-) Big Data (8)
- (-) Climate Change (6)
- (-) Energy Storage (10)
- (-) Frontier (3)
- (-) Space Exploration (3)
- (-) Summit (7)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (8)
- Advanced Reactors (2)
- Artificial Intelligence (19)
- Bioenergy (9)
- Biology (9)
- Biomedical (13)
- Biotechnology (2)
- Buildings (2)
- Chemical Sciences (4)
- Clean Water (3)
- Composites (1)
- Computer Science (32)
- Coronavirus (10)
- Cybersecurity (19)
- Decarbonization (5)
- Environment (15)
- Exascale Computing (1)
- Fossil Energy (1)
- Fusion (2)
- Grid (7)
- High-Performance Computing (7)
- Machine Learning (16)
- Materials (18)
- Materials Science (25)
- Mathematics (2)
- Microscopy (3)
- Nanotechnology (11)
- National Security (35)
- Neutron Science (100)
- Nuclear Energy (7)
- Partnerships (5)
- Physics (10)
- Polymers (1)
- Quantum Computing (1)
- Quantum Science (8)
- Security (12)
- Simulation (2)
- Sustainable Energy (5)
- Transportation (7)
Media Contacts
Two of the researchers who share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced Wednesday—John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin and M. Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University in New York—have research ties to ORNL.
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.
Gleaning valuable data from social platforms such as Twitter—particularly to map out critical location information during emergencies— has become more effective and efficient thanks to Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
A University of South Carolina research team is investigating the oxygen reduction performance of energy conversion materials called perovskites by using neutron diffraction at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Spallation Neutron Source.