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Liquid-to-solid battery electrolyte technology licensed exclusively to SafireBattery tech startup moving to East Tennessee
Wed, 12/07/2022 - 11:58
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Oak Ridge, TN) -- The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has exclusively licensed battery electrolyte technology to Safire Technology Group. The collection of five patented technologies is…Racing Company Licenses Innovative ORNL Fast-Charging Battery TechnologiesFast cars may lead the way for EVs
Tue, 11/22/2022 - 12:00
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Marc-Antoni Racing has licensed a collection of patented energy storage technologies developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The technologies focus on components…Using Ultrasound to Check Battery HealthInnovative technique could be key to reuse
Wed, 11/02/2022 - 11:59
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using ultrasounds—usually associated with medical imaging—to check the health of an operating battery. The technique uses sensors as small as a thumbnail, which could be…Researchers Bring More Reliable Electricity to Puerto RicoOak Ridge Lab is developing technology to coordinate solar microgrids
Thu, 10/06/2022 - 12:01
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- When Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico in 2017, winds snapped trees and destroyed homes while heavy rains transformed streets into rivers. But after the storm passed, the human toll continued to grow as residents…Lithium-ion Battery Material BreakthroughDiscovery breaks barrier to fast charging
Mon, 10/03/2022 - 12:00
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Researchers at the Dept. of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville discovered a key material needed for fast-charging lithium-ion batteries. The commercially…Improving Climate Model AccuracyFor scenarios that require a rapid response
Tue, 06/21/2022 - 12:00
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, Tennessee) -- A study led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers promises to help sharpen accuracy for climate-change models and enable more reliable predictions of extreme weather.
The team’s results outline an invertible…Mon, 05/23/2022 - 12:02
Astudy led by researchers at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory could help make materials design as easy as point-and-click.
The study, published in Nature Partner Journals’ Computational Materials, used an invertible neural…A New Frontier: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Rolls Out SupercomputerMake way for the Crusher
Mon, 05/09/2022 - 12:00
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Computational users at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) are running scientific codes on Frontier’s architecture in the form of a powerful test system at the OLCF called Crusher.…Thu, 04/09/2020 - 12:02
‘Engineering is about building things to help others.”
Before diving into a longer explanation, that’s how Singanallur “Venkat” Venkatakrishnan, an electrical and computer engineer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL),…ORNL Z-Contrast Microscope First to Resolve, Identify Individual Light AtomsResearchers can design more accurate computational simulations to predict the behavior of advanced materials.
Wed, 03/31/2010 - 16:01
Individual boron and nitrogen atoms are clearly distinguished by their intensity in this Z-contrast scanning electron transmission microscope image from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Each single hexagonal ring of the boron-…