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Oak Ridge National Lab industry collaboration enables job growth, N95 mask production in Florida

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A collaboration between the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Florida-based medical device manufacturer has led to the addition of 500 jobs in the Miami area to support the mass production of N95 respirator masks.

Neutrons chart atomic map of COVID-19's viral replication mechanism

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

To better understand how the novel coronavirus behaves and how it can be stopped, scientists have completed a three-dimensional map that reveals the location of every atom in an enzyme molecule critical to SARS-CoV-2 reproduction. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron scattering to identify key information to improve the effectiveness of drug inhibitors designed to block the virus's replication mechanism.

Journal: Journal of Biological Chemistry
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

On-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons could advance quantum devices

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international multi-institution team of scientists has synthesized graphene nanoribbons -- ultrathin strips of carbon atoms -- on a titanium dioxide surface using an atomically precise method that removes a barrier for custom-designed carbon nanostructures required for quantum information sciences.

Journal: Science
Funder: Department of Energy

Colorado School of Mines researchers use neutrons to study weld-induced stress relief

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers from the Colorado School of Mines used neutrons at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor to measure residual stress of welds used to make large steel tanks that store molten salts for industrial concentrating solar plants.

Additively manufactured components by ORNL headed for TVA nuclear reactor

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL has 3D printed a channel bracket to go into reactors at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant this spring, to demonstrate the viability of pre-qualified additively manufactured reactor components.

Process to recover metals from batteries licensed by Momentum Technologies

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Momentum Technologies Inc., a Dallas, Texas-based materials science company that is focused on extracting critical metals from electronic waste, has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory process for recovering cobalt and other metals from spent lithium-ion batteries.

Funder: Critical Materials Institute, Momentum Technologies, DOE Technology Commercialization Fund, Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office, DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, UT's Tony Schmitz elected to ASPE College of Fellows

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Tony Schmitz, joint faculty researcher in machining and machine tools at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and mechanical, aerospace and biomedical engineering professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Society for Precision Engineering.

Story Tips: Remote population counting, slowing corrosion and turning down the heat

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL Story tips: Remote population counting, slowing corrosion and turning down the heat

Funder: Office of Science, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Department of Energy

Blocking vibrations that remove heat could boost efficiency of next-gen solar cells

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, a study of a solar-energy material with a bright future revealed a way to slow phonons, the waves that transport heat. The discovery could improve novel hot-carrier solar cells, which convert sunlight to electricity more efficiently than conventional solar cells by harnessing photogenerated charge carriers before they lose energy to heat.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: United States Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Vehicle Technology Office, United States Department of Homeland Security, DOE/US Department of Energy

Neutrons reveal behavior of cholesterol in membranes

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Neutron scattering at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has shown that cholesterol stiffens simple lipid membranes, a finding that may help us better understand the functioning of human cells.

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