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Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Dec. 2014

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Better brain imaging; ecosystem research; computer modeling explains IPCC item; better electronics and an ORNL partnership with Julich.

ORNL researchers Buchanan, Liang, Mayes named AAAS fellows

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Grant and Award Announcement

Three staff members from Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Spiraling back in time

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Using a code developed for GPU supercomputing architectures, including that of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Cray XK7 Titan, to simulate the evolution of the Milky Way galaxy, a team of researchers from the Netherlands and Japan is a Gordon Bell Prize finalist.

Oak Ridge to acquire next generation supercomputer

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Business Announcement

The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility has signed a contract with IBM to bring a next-generation supercomputer to Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Good vibrations give electrons excitations that rock an insulator to go metallic

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has made an important advancement in understanding a classic transition-metal oxide, vanadium dioxide, by quantifying the thermodynamic forces driving the transformation. The results are published in the Nov. 10 advance online issue of Nature.

Journal: Nature

ORNL materials researchers get first look at atom-thin boundaries

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have made the first direct observations of a one-dimensional boundary separating two different, atom-thin materials, enabling studies of long-theorized phenomena at these interfaces.

Journal: Nature Communications

ORNL thermomagnetic processing method provides path to new materials

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

For much the same reason LCD televisions offer eye-popping performance, a thermomagnetic processing method can advance the performance of polymers.

Journal: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Your own energy 'island'? ORNL microgrid could standardize small, self-sustaining electric grids

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Benefit of microgrids -- small systems powered by renewables and energy storage devices.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 2014

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory's October 2014 story tips include stories on organic solar cells, drilling for gas vresus oil and batteries.

Iron-based superconductor simulations spin out new possibilities on Titan

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Researchers studying iron-based superconductors are combining novel electronic structure algorithms with the high-performance computing power of Titan supercomputer to predict spin dynamics, or the ways electrons orient and correlate their spins in a material.