Automotive aluminum scrap often contains elevated impurity levels that reduce ductility and limit reuse in structural components. With rising demand for lightweight materials and the growing volume of ...

The year’s top story announced two new AI supercomputers, establishing ORNL’s vital role as part of DOE’s Genesis Mission, a national initiative to accelerate science through artificial intelligence.

I use crystal growth, solid state chemistry, and metallurgical synthesis techniques, crystallographic studies, and physical property measurements to explore structure-property relationships in complex ...

The compact GridEdge Analyzer developed by the University of Tennessee and ORNL can be embedded into power electronics or even plugged into a wall outlet to measure the smallest changes in electrical ...

Dr. Vincent C. Paquit serves as the section head for Secure and Digital Manufacturing in the Manufacturing Science Division (MSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Over the past two decades, he ...

With increasing demand for low-cost batteries, the establishment of a domestic supply chain is a top priority. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is giving US manufacturers a boost by operating the country ...

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How do you keep a fusion plasma that's hotter than the sun from damaging vital components near it? This is just one question the Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment (MPEX) at the Department of ...

Dr. Manley received his PhD in Materials Science from Caltech in 2001 and was awarded the 18 th Louis Rosen Prize for his thesis. He was a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National ...

The growing reliance on rare earth elements (REEs) in advanced technologies, combined with global supply chain challenges, has created a critical need for domestic sources. This invention introduces a ...