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ORNL technology transfer continues strong upward trend

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Business Announcement

New methods are improving connections between private businesses and technology from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with 101 licenses and options executed during the last three years.

Super stable garnet ceramics may be ideal for high-energy lithium batteries

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have discovered exceptional properties in a garnet material that could enable development of higher-energy battery designs.

Journal: Angewandte Chemie

Atomic trigger shatters mystery of how glass deforms

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A new study at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, published Sept. 24 in Nature Communications, has cracked one mystery of glass to shed light on the mechanism that triggers its deformation before shattering. The study improves understanding of glassy deformation and may accelerate broader application of metallic glass, a moldable, wear-resistant, magnetically exploitable material that is thrice as strong as the mightiest steel and ten times as springy.

ORNL's Urban Dynamics Institute joins global fight against polio

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Business Announcement

The new Urban Dynamics Institute at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to aid polio vaccination efforts in developing countries.

Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

ORNL research reveals unique capabilities of 3-D printing

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have demonstrated an additive manufacturing method to control the structure and properties of metal components with precision unmatched by conventional manufacturing processes.

Meeting: Materials Science & Technology 2014

New ORNL electric vehicle technology packs more punch in smaller package

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Using 3-D printing and novel semiconductors, researchers have created a power inverter that could make electric vehicles lighter, more powerful and more efficient.

ORNL researchers make first observation of atoms moving inside bulk material

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have obtained the first direct observations of atomic diffusion inside a bulk material.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Researchers look inside to reveal workings of a powerful biochemical switch

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Using X-rays and neutron beams, a team of researchers have revealed the inner workings of a master switch that regulates basic cellular functions, but that also, when mutated, contributes to cancer, cardiovascular disease and other deadly disorders.

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

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory's October 2014 story tips include stories on materials, cyber analytics, automobiles and energy.

Unlocking enzyme synthesis of rare sugars to create drugs with fewer side effects

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A team led by the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has unlocked the enzymatic synthesis process of rare sugars, which are useful in developing drugs with low side effects using a process more friendly to the environment.