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ORNL licenses rare earth magnet recycling process to Momentum Technologies

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Momentum Technologies have signed a non-exclusive licensing agreement for an ORNL process designed to recover rare earth magnets from used computer hard drives.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2016

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This tip sheet includes: 1) Metals that bind, 2) Cleaner coatings, 3) Testing future reactors, and 4) Modeling radiation damage.

3-D printed tool for building aircraft achieves Guinness World Records title

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A 3-D printed trim-and-drill tool, developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to be evaluated at The Boeing Company, has received the title of largest solid 3-D printed item by Guinness World Records™.

Neutrino experiments utilize ORNL experts, equipment to explore the unknown

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

This year the field of neutrino physics is full of enthusiasm as three significant experiments with different goals gear up to advance our understanding of neutrino physics. All three experiments benefit from expertise and facilities at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Streamlining accelerated computing for industry

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In an effort to modernize CFD, a group of Imperial College researchers has developed new open-source software called PyFR, a Python-based application that combines highly accurate numerical methods with a highly flexible, portable, and scalable code implementation that makes efficient use of accelerators. Industry adoption of the code could allow companies to better exploit petascale computing to understand long-standing fluid flow problems, unsteady turbulence in particular.

Meeting: SC16: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

ORNL collaborates with 6 small businesses on clean energy tech

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Six small companies will tap the expertise of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to move their manufacturing, fuel cell, geothermal and vehicle technologies closer to the marketplace.

CMI, Oddello Industries pursue recovery of rare-earth magnets from used hard drives

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A process developed for large-scale recovery of rare earth magnets from used computer hard drives will undergo industrial testing under a new agreement between Oddello Industries LLC and ORNL, as part of the Department of Energy's Critical Materials Institute.

Energy Department to invest $16 million in computer design of materials

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The US Department of Energy announced today that it will invest $16 million over the next four years to accelerate the design of new materials through use of supercomputers. Two four-year projects -- one team led by DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the other team led by DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory -- will take advantage of superfast computers at DOE national laboratories by developing software to design fundamentally new functional materials.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

New residential water heater concept promises high efficiency, lower cost

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Florida has developed a novel method that could yield lower-cost, higher-efficiency systems for water heating in residential buildings.

Journal: Renewable Energy

Researchers combine simulation, experiment for nanoscale 3-D printing

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A research team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory has created a high-power simulation and design process to print free-standing 3-D structures on the nanoscale using focused electron beam induced deposition. The simulation-guided nanomanufacturing method allows researchers to design and construct complex high-fidelity nanostructures with less guesswork.