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Nanofibers yield stronger, tougher carbon fiber composites

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an innovative new technique using carbon nanofibers to enhance binding in carbon fiber and other fiber-reinforced polymer composites – an advance likely to improve structural materials for automobiles, airplanes and other applications that require lightweight and strong materials.

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials

Quantum Science Center summer school draws record attendance

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The fifth annual Quantum Science Center, or QSC, Summer School at Purdue University, held Apr. 21 through Apr. 25, 2025, welcomed its largest group of students to date. Experts from industry, academia and national laboratories gathered at the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute to share their research in multiple areas of quantum science.

Novel data streaming software chases light speed from accelerator to supercomputer

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Analyzing massive datasets from nuclear physics experiments can take hours or days to process, but researchers are working to radically reduce that time to mere seconds using special software being developed at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge national laboratories.

Sandia National Labs helps save taxpayers millions through smarter spending

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is being credited with saving the Department of Energy $439 million as part of a more efficient way of doing business with suppliers. That’s more than any other DOE site nationwide.

Innovation is motivation

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Fan was recently named Outstanding Researcher by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, a group dedicated to accelerating federal technologies in the marketplace.

Maximal entanglement sheds new light on particle creation

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain information about their origins in subatomic particle smashups.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

A surprise contender for cooling computers: lasers

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Minnesota-based startup Maxwell Labs has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico to demonstrate laser-based photonic cooling for computer chips.

AAAS elects five ORNL scientists as fellows

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Five scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals.

Gas injection setup in new fusion system is guided by public-private research

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have determined that six gas valves provide the best protection against plasma disruptions in SPARC, a next-generation, experimental fusion system. By refining the setup for the fusion vessel’s massive gas injection system, researchers are ensuring that disruptions — sudden jets of plasma that can damage the fusion vessel’s inner walls — are controlled efficiently, paving the way for safer, more robust fusion power plants.

Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, DOE/US Department of Energy

Chi, Advincula named Materials Research Society Fellows

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Miaofang Chi and Rigoberto “Gobet” Advincula, both researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have been elected as Class of 2025 Fellows of the Materials Research Society, or MRS. Chi also holds a joint appointment at Duke University, and Advincula is jointly appointed at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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