Thu, 05/09/2024 - 12:01
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- American drivers have long been accustomed to conveniently filling up at a gas station, and electric vehicle drivers want their pit stops to mimic this experience. Driver uncertainty about access to charging during long…
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 12:00
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Research led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Marti Checa and Liam Collins has pioneered a groundbreaking approach, described in the journal Nature Communications, toward understanding the behavior of an electric charge at…
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 12:01
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a novel way to encapsulate salt hydrate phase-change materials within polymer fibers through a coaxial pulling process. The discovery could…
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 12:01
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have been leading a project to understand how a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, could threaten power plants.
A nuclear weapon…
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:01
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers have developed a machine-learning framework for identifying flaws in 3D-printed products using sensor data gathered simultaneously with production, saving time and money while…
Tue, 11/21/2023 - 12:01
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Using neutrons to see the additive manufacturing process at the atomic level, scientists have shown that they can measure strain in a material as it evolves and track how atoms move in response to stress.
“The automotive,…
Wed, 10/25/2023 - 12:00
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- As current courses through a battery, its materials erode over time. Mechanical influences such as stress and strain affect this trajectory, although their effects on battery efficacy and longevity aren’t fully understood.…
Thu, 09/28/2023 - 12:02
A team of scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has investigated the behavior of hafnium oxide, or hafnia, and its potential for use in novel semiconductor applications.
Materials such as hafnia…
Wed, 09/13/2023 - 11:58
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- A new nanoscience study led by a researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory takes a big-picture look at how scientists study materials at the smallest scales.
The paper, published in Science…
Mon, 08/28/2023 - 12:00
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Using the full capabilities of the Quantinuum H1-1 quantum computer, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory not only demonstrated best practices for scientific…