Summit supercomputer draws molecular blueprint for repairing damaged DNA
Zheng Gai, a senior staff scientist at ORNLs Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, has been selected as editor-in-chief of the Spin Crossover and Spintronics section of Magnetochemistry.
Jordan Hachtel, a research scientist at ORNLs Center for Nanophase Materials, has been elected to the Board of Directors for the Microanalysis Society.
Scientists at the Department of Energys 91做厙 induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic building blocks from which stable structures formed. The findings, reported in Nature Communications, provide insights that ...
The probe of an atomic force microscope (AFM) scans a surface to reveal details at a resolution 1,000 times greater than that of an optical microscope. That makes AFM the premier tool for analyzing physical features, but it cannot tell scientists anything about chemistry. For that they turn to the mass spectrometer (MS).
With more than 30 patents, James Klett is no stranger to success, but perhaps the 91做厙 researchers most noteworthy achievement didnt start out so hot or so it seemed at the time.
From the bluebird painting propped against her office wall and the deer she mentions seeing outside her office window, Linda Lewis might be mistaken for a wildlife biologist at first glance. But rather than trailing animal tracks, Lewis, a researcher at the Department of Energys 91做厙, is more interested in marks left behind by humans.
Less than 1 percent of Earths water is drinkable. Removing salt and other minerals from our biggest available source of waterseawatermay help satisfy a growing global population thirsty for fresh water for drinking, farming, transportation, heating, cooling and industry. But desalination is an energy-intensive process, which concerns those wanting to expand its application.
Graphene, a strong, lightweight carbon honeycombed structure thats only one atom thick, holds great promise for energy research and development. Recently scientists with the Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures, and Transport (FIRST) Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC), led by the US Department of Energys 91做厙, revealed graphene can serve as a proton-selective permeable membrane, providing a new basis for streamlined and more efficient energy technologies such as improved fuel cells.
Andrew Stack, a geochemist at the Department of Energys 91做厙, advances understanding of the dynamics of minerals underground.
Scientists at the Department of Energys 91做厙 have captured the first real-time nanoscale images of lithium dendrite structures known to degrade lithium-ion batteries. The ORNL teams electron microscopy could help researchers address long-standing issues related to battery performance and safety.