Feature Articles
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
.
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 11-Jul-2025 12:10 ET (11-Jul-2025 16:10 GMT/UTC)
24-Feb-2022
COVID-19 in the classroom: Simulating the spread
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A team led by Rao Kotamarthi at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is using supercomputers at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to study how aerosol viral particles are distributed in a ventilated classroom as part of COVID-19 research.
- Funder
- Biological and Environmental Research, Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research
- Meeting
- 74th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
21-Feb-2022
Carbon-negative platform turns waste gases into valuable chemicals
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed carbon capture technology that harnesses emissions from industrial processes to produce acetone and isopropanol, known as IPA. These widely used chemicals serve as the basis of thousands of products, from fuels and solvents to acrylic glass and fabrics.
- Journal
- Nature Biotechnology
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy
18-Feb-2022
ORNL experts help measure new world record for fusion energy
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Diagnostics experts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory played a key role in this month's fusion milestone at the Joint European Torus (JET) by measuring what was happening inside the plasma.
26-Jan-2022
Supercomputing for swift protein modeling
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A team at Arizona State University used the nation's fastest supercomputer, Summit at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to simulate millions of structures and gain new insights into how proteins transition to different shapes.
- Journal
- Matter
- Funder
- Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery, NIH/National Institutes of Health
25-Jan-2022
Supercomputing exposes potential pathways for inhibiting COVID-19
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
To explore the inner workings of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a novel technique.
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy
20-Jan-2022
Polymer upcycling of common plastic adds toughness, recyclability to structural adhesives
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used polymer chemistry to transform a common household plastic into a reusable adhesive with a rare combination of strength and ductility, making it one of the toughest materials ever reported.
12-Jan-2022
Taking on decarbonization in the ag sector: ORNL summit highlights focus areas
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Energy and sustainability experts from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, industry, universities and the federal government recently identified key focus areas to meet the challenge of successfully decarbonizing the agriculture sector, as well as scientific resources that the U.S. Department of Energy’s national laboratories can bring to the table.
11-Jan-2022
Artificially altered material could accelerate neuromorphic device development
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Neuromorphic devices — which emulate the decision-making processes of the human brain — show great promise for solving pressing scientific problems, but building physical systems to realize this potential presents researchers with a significant challenge. An international team has gained additional insights into a material compound called vanadium oxide, or VO2, that might be the missing ingredient needed to complete a reliable neuromorphic recipe.
- Journal
- Physical Review B
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy, National Research Foundation of Korea
10-Jan-2022
Scientists use Summit supercomputer, deep learning to predict protein functions at genome scale
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Georgia Institute of Technology is using supercomputing and revolutionary deep learning tools to predict the structures and roles of thousands of proteins with unknown functions.
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy