ORNL Review Archive

Vol. 49, No. 3, (Fall 2016)

Empowering our next generation

Editorial: Empowering our next generation
To the point: The consequences of vehicle automation, from childhood tinkerer to supercomputing expert, carbon releases in the Arctic, and more
Early-Career Researchers at ORNL: Looking to the future of science ... When soils exhale ... Where there's a willow, there's a way ... Computing by the atom ... Better computing through math
Focus on Manufacturing: Printed components benefit from manufacturing–computing collaboration
Focus on Transportation: Plug-free wireless charging demonstrated at ORNL
Infographic: Carbon Fiber Technology Facility
Focus on Computing: Broadening the bilayer ... Biofuel researchers use Titan to probe ‘lignin shield’
Focus on Physical Sciences: ORNL researchers invent a tougher plastic—and it’s 50 percent renewable too ... Halogen atom competition leads researchers toward better solar films
Focus on Neutrons: Neutron ‘splashes’ reveal signature of exotic particles
Focus on Nuclear: Charmed half-life: Target used to discover element 117 took a circuitous route to Russia
Focus on Imaging: Building better geothermal models
Focus on Buildings: ORNL refrigerator cools with magnetism, not Freon
Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturers: Alton Romig Jr.
Why Science? Young researchers explain
Time Warp: The short life of a neutron

The past, present and future of clean energy R&D

Editorial: The past, present and future of clean energy R&D
To the point: Partnering with business, unleashing solar power, personal achievements, and more
ORNL and Clean Energy Research: ORNL and clean energy, In praise of the power grid, ORNL researchers go for a big impact, Grad students create biotech company
Focus on Quantum Computing: Staying ahead of Moore’s law
Focus on Critical Materials: Two birds, one stone
Infographic: ORNL Clean Energy Collaborations: ORNL regional partnerships
Focus on Medical Isotopes: Methods for medicine
Focus on Nuclear: Researchers re-create reactor in virtual form, Materials research brings fusion power closer to reality
Focus on Physical SciencesSolvents save steps in solar cell manufacturing
Focus on ComputingModeling next-generation lasers for tumor removal, Simulating tumor cells, sickle cell anemia and drug delivery
Eugene Wigner Distinguished LecturersRoald Hoffmann, Andrew Briggs
Why Science? Young researchers tell us
Time Warp: Oil crisis in ‘70s highlighted need for coherent energy policy

ORNL science is helping the environment

Editorial: ORNL finds solutions to environmental problems
To the Point: Giant biosimulations, “white 2 graphene,” a national park, and more
ORNL Science Protects the Environment: Finding scientific solutions to environmental problems ... ORNL process isolates troublesome cesium ... Researchers use soybean oil to reduce uranium in groundwater
Infographic: Vehicle Systems Integration Laboratory: Vehicle analysis without the vehicle
Focus on Mercury: ORNL scientists solve the mystery of mercury
Focus on Computing: Building bacteria’s photosynthetic engine ... Shining a light on subsurface flows
Focus on Health: Cataloging drug candidates at the petascale
Focus on HFIR: Beautiful refueling
Eugene Wigner Distinguished Lecturers: Frances H. Arnold ... C.N.R. Rao
Why Science?: Young researchers tell us
Time Warp: Molten Salt Reactor Experiment: Alvin Weinberg’s magnum opus

Transportation Research

Carbon Management

Virtual Human: Science at the Interface