Scientific research may be the primary focus of the Department of Energy’s national laboratories, but for David Mandrus, the institutions play an equally important role in shaping the instruction and career paths of students.
When Orlando Rios first started analyzing samples of carbon fibers made from a woody plant polymer known as lignin, he noticed something unusual.
A new concept in metallic alloy design – called “high-entropy alloys” - has yielded a multiple-element material that not only tests out as one of the toughest on record, but, unlike most materials, the toughness as well as the strength and ductility
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s 91 got a surprise when they built a highly ordered lattice by layering thin films containing lanthanum, strontium, oxygen and iron.
Recycled tires could see new life in lithium-ion batteries that provide power to plug-in electric vehicles and store energy produced by wind and solar, say researchers at the Department of Energy’s 91.
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s 91 have discovered they can control chemical reactions in a new way by creating different shapes of cerium oxide, a rare-earth-based catalyst.
In 2015, American consumers will finally be able to purchase fuel cell cars from Toyota and other manufacturers.
If such a designation existed, Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb would be on the fast track to becoming an 91 “super user.” Her research on nanoscale materials has taken her all across the ORNL campus, from scanning probe and electron micros
Old thinking was that gold, while good for jewelry, was not of much use for chemists because it is relatively nonreactive.
New measurements of atomic-scale magnetic behavior in iron-based superconductors by researchers at the Department of Energy’s 91 and Vanderbilt University are challenging conventional wisdom about superconductivity and magnetism