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New ORNL catalyst addresses engine efficiency, emissions quandary

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A catalyst being developed by researchers could overcome one of the key obstacles still preventing automobile engines from running more cleanly and efficiently.

Journal: Angewandte Chemie

Researchers mine information from next-generation subsurface flow simulations

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Virginia Tech researcher James McClure and his research team are using resources at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility located at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to improve understanding of transport phenomena in multiphase systems.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2015

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This tip sheet includes ORNL lamp simulates sun in tests for NASA; ORNL model examines diabetes progression; Hybrid lubricant holds great promise for engine efficiency; ORNL, partners score success with wireless charging demo; New software helps in design of quantum computers, batteries

ORNL chemical sampling interface features simplicity, speed

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In mere seconds, a device that can identify and characterize a solid or liquid sample.

Journal: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

DOE event marks beginning of landmark ecosystem experiment

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Scientists are getting a glimpse of the future with a large-scale experiment designed to answer questions about how carbon-rich peatlands will respond to projected warming of the climate and increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Carbon number crunching

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A booming economy and population led China to emerge in 2006 as the global leader in fossil-fuel carbon emissions, a distinction it still maintains. But exactly how much carbon China releases has been a topic of debate, with recent estimates varying by as much as 15 percent.

Viral comparisons

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

An Oak Ridge National Laboratory team of comparative genomics and computational science researchers compared approximately 4,000 complete virus genomes downloaded from a public database known as GenBank. By compressing the sequence files, the team created a virus dendrogram that maps out the relationships among all the different virus families.

BESC creates microbe that bolsters isobutanol production

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Another barrier to commercially viable biofuels from sources other than corn has fallen with the engineering of a microbe that improves isobutanol yields by a factor of 10.

Journal: Metabolic Engineering

The pressure is on

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers with Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source have developed technology to squeeze materials with a million times the pressure of the earth's atmosphere while studying them with neutrons. When they bombard these materials with neutrons, the materials provide an unprecedented picture of the changing nature of matter under extreme pressure.

Eyes on the prize

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Recently, the Department of Energy Office of Science's Nanoscale Science Research Centers at Argonne, Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos/Sandia and Oak Ridge national laboratories jointly organized a workshop at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to discuss opportunities and challenges as imaging and data sciences merge. Those efforts will likely aid the Materials Genome Initiative, which aims to speed new materials to the global marketplace.