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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 6-Oct-2025 19:11 ET (6-Oct-2025 23:11 GMT/UTC)

ORNL composites research wins top CAMX awards

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory was honored with four prestigious awards at the 2025 Composites and Advanced Materials Conference, North America’s largest event dedicated to composites and advanced materials.

EPB Quantum℠ adds hybrid computing to comprehensive quantum development platform

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

At the 2025 Quantum World Congress, EPB Quantum℠ announced that it is enhancing its quantum computing resources by adding hybrid computing capabilities. Through an agreement with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), an NVIDIA DGX system has been installed at the EPB Quantum Center℠ in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which is already home to America's first commercially available quantum network and lonQ's Forte Enterprise Quantum Computer scheduled for commissioning in early 2026.

Sandia team creates X-ray images of the future

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

A team at Sandia National Labs has developed what they belive is a better way to X-Ray, harnessing different metals and the colors of light they emit.

“It’s called colorized hyperspectral X-ray imaging with multi-metal targets, or CHXI MMT for short,” said project lead Edward Jimenez, an optical engineer. Jimenez has been working with materials scientist Noelle Collins and electronics engineer Courtney Sovinec to create X-rays of the future.

“With this new technology, we are essentially going from the old way, which is black and white, to a whole new colored world where we can better identify materials and defects of interest,

Unlocking ceramic 3D printing for next-generation chemical reactors

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In collaboration with chemical technology and engineering company Dimensional Energy, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have integrated binder jet additive manufacturing with an advanced post-processing method to fabricate leak-tight ceramic components, overcoming a key challenge of ceramic additive manufacturing.

Journal: Ceramics International

ORNL to lead, partner on FIRE Collaboratives in critical fusion energy technologies

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

ORNL will lead two collaborations under the Fusion Innovation Research Engine (FIRE) program and partner on two more to close critical gaps in fusion technology and bridge basic research with growing fusion companies.

Funder: Fusion Energy Sciences

ORNL leads three INFUSE projects solving fusion challenges

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

ORNL has been selected to lead three research collaborations with fusion industry partners as part of the 2025 cohort of the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy program. The awarded projects will tap ORNL’s deep expertise in fusion materials, plasma diagnostics and advanced modeling and simulation to solve practical challenges and develop new technologies to accelerate the development of fusion energy.

Funder: Fusion Energy Sciences

ORNL receives 2025 SAMPE Organizational Excellence Award

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering has named the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory as the recipient of the 2025 SAMPE Organizational Excellence Award.

Tiley wins TMS Distinguished Scientist award

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Jay Tiley, head of the Materials Structures and Processing Section in the Materials Science and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the 2026 Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division Distinguished Scientist award from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.

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