Content by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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…
Study Harnesses Made-to-Order Design to Pair Properties to MaterialsTraining based on data from 11,000 quantum chemistry calculations
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.…
ORNL Takes Engineering to the Classroom for Engineers Week‘Engineering is about building things to help others.’
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-…
Researchers build AI model database to find new alloysFinding metals for nuclear fusion facilities
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 14:23
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- A study led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory details how artificial intelligence researchers created an AI model to help identify new alloys used as shielding for housing fusion applications…
Decoding Biological Complexity With Mass SpectrometryDemonstrating how high-performance analytical measurements yield insights
Wed, 05/14/2025 - 12:01
Robert “Bob” Hettich has spent much of his career at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) demonstrating how high-performance analytical measurements, in particular mass spectrometry, can yield remarkable insights into…
How Beehive Industries, ORNL are advancing aerospace additive manufacturingThe technology creates jet engines and oil coolers from 3D printed aluminum
Fri, 05/02/2025 - 12:38
When Jonaaron Jones started his master’s degree at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, his mentor invited him to visit the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, or MDF, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “I saw a metal 3D-printed part for the…