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ORNL develops new capability to evaluate human-driven change in Eastern US streams

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A stream classification system developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can help assess physical changes to United States streams and rivers from human influences and aid in more effective management of water resources.

Brixon, Inc. licenses ORNL's innovative sensor technology for security applications

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Brixon, Inc., has exclusively licensed a multiparameter sensor technology from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The integrated platform uses various sensors that measure physical and environmental parameters and respond to standard security applications.

Chang-Hong Yu: Running a physics marathon

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Chang-Hong Yu of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory fell in love with running in 2008 and has since completed 38 marathons or longer-distance races. Her passion for long-distance races serves her well chasing neutrinos--electrically neutral subatomic particles that have almost no mass, interact weakly with matter and are spotted through feats of intellect and endurance.

The top 10 ORNL neutron science achievements of 2017

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

From new drug discoveries to water purification and the 'untangling' of a host of mysterious quantum phenomena, 2017 was a productive year for Neutron Sciences at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2018

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL story tips: Oak Ridge National Laboratory assists FEMA with structural damage data from Hawaii lava flows; self-healing super-stretchy material could lead to longer-lasting consumer products; ORNL 3D prints plant-based plastic polymers; mini-grid safely tests components to the max; neutrons uncover pathway to new algae strains for sustainable biofuels.

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials
Funder: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DOE/US Department of Energy, DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office, DOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability

ORNL produces rare ruthenium isotope for atom smashing experiment

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A tiny vial of gray powder produced at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the backbone of a new experiment to study the intense magnetic fields created in nuclear collisions. The new experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, just completed, smashed together nuclei of ruthenium-96 to better understand a form of matter present at the beginning of the universe -- and thereby advance understanding of fundamental nuclear physics.

New insights bolster Einstein's idea about how heat moves through solids

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A discovery by scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory supports a century-old theory by Albert Einstein that explains how heat moves through everything from travel mugs to engine parts.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Stealth Mark licenses ORNL invisible micro-taggant for anticounterfeiting applications

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

StealthCo, Inc., an Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based firm doing business as Stealth Mark, has exclusively licensed an invisible micro-taggant from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The anticounterfeiting technology features a novel materials coding system that uses an infrared marker for identification.

Funder: Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Tech Transfer Technology Assistance Program

Critical plant gene takes unexpected detour that could boost biofuel yields

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For decades, biologists have believed a key enzyme in plants had one function -- produce amino acids, which are vital to plant survival and also essential to human diets. But for Wellington Muchero, Meng Xie and their colleagues, this enzyme does more than advertised. They had run a series of experiments on poplar plants that consistently revealed mutations in a structure of the life-sustaining enzyme that was not previously known to exist.

Journal: The Plant Cell
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Zili Wu: Beating plants at photosynthetic step with help from catalysts

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Zili Wu of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory grew up on a farm in China's heartland. He chose to leave it to catalyze a career in chemistry. Today Wu leads ORNL's Surface Chemistry and Catalysis group and conducts research at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a DOE Office of Science User Facility. It turns out what he learned on the farm would later continue to inspire him and feed his accomplishments.

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