Vol. 54, No. 2, (Fall 2021)
- Editorial: Accelerating electrification to fight climate change
- To the Point: Software aids placement of EV charging stations, ORNL helps pull data from fusion experiments, new algorithm lowers utility bills, peatland experiment shows methane growth
- Electrification: Better living through electricity, Ensuring the supply of critical materials, Going wireless for better vehicle charging, New center houses ORNL electricity research
- Focus on Computing: Getting ready for an exascale supercomputer, Summit boosts resolution of weather simulation, Supercomputers help explain DNA proofreading
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Physicists improve precision of neutrino studies, New technique improves next-gen solar cells, Quantum light squeezes the noise out of microscopy signals
- Focus on Neutrons: Making mightier 'magnetic motors'
- Focus on Biology: Sulfur-scavenging bacteria affect crops and climate
- Fighting COVID-19: Neutrons map COVID-19 replication mechanism, Neutrons probe cell membrane defense against COVID-19
- Associate Laboratory Directors: ORNL welcomes world-class scientific leaders
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: A piece of aviation history hidden in the woods
Vol. 1, No. 54, (Winter 2021)
- Editorial: The race to address climate change
- To the Point: Team hits milestone in quantum communication, combining bioenergy and carbon capture, ORNL joins effort to make plastic more recyclable, funding announced for UT–ORNL institute
- Confronting Climate Change: Understanding the complexities of climate change, new composite revs up electric vehicle research, novel 3D-printed device enhances CO2 capture, energy efficiency research supports grid-interactive townhome development, ORNL campus becomes a sustainable role model
- Tech Transfer: Rapid commercialization: Fast-tracking promising technologies
- GEM Fellows: GEM Consortium brings talented students to ORNL
- Focus on Computing: Summit helps take the guesswork out of drug design, supercomputer simulations explore detonation engines, ORNL, partners receive $115 million to establish Quantum Science Center
- Focus on Physical Sciences: Process for ‘two-faced’ nanomaterials may aid energy, information tech, carbon-loving materials target industrial emissions
- Fighting COVID-19: Summit simulations uncover COVID-19 connections, neutrons probe cellular invasion processes of COVID-19 infections, advanced manufacturing, carbon fiber research help fight COVID-19
- Early Career Scientists: Introduction, Peter Jiang: getting more out of a neutron beam, Elijah Martin: An unanswered question launches a career quest, Benjamin Sulman: Shifting from physics to ecology
- Why Science? Young researchers explain
- Time Warp: The barn that wasn't a barn
Vol. 21, No. 4, ( 1988)
Waste Management and Remedial Action- A New Way of Doing Business: An Interview with Tom Row
- The DOE Model
- The Energy Systems Approach
- Improving Waste Management Operations
- Waste Management Technology Center
- The Hazardous Waste Technology Program
- PCB-Eating Microbes
- Radioactive Waste Management R&D
- Grouts Solve Disposal Problems
- ORNL's New Environmental Projects
- Remedial Actions for ORNL's Environment
- QA in Waste Management
- Loss of Coolant: ORNL's Role in a Key Reactor Safety Experiment
- Awards and Appointments
- Books. ORNL researcher's book discusses the economics of recycling plastic waste
- R&D Updates. Roof Research Center dedicated; leaking Georgia cesium capsules probed
- Take a Number
- Technical Highlights. Two 1988 R&D 100 Awards for Oak Ridge; new ORELA positron source operating
- Technology Transfer. Triple-effect absorption chiller and diagnostic device licensed
Vol. 21, No. 3, ( 1988)
Supercomputers in Scientific Research- Supercomputers in Scientific Research
- Energy for Development: ORNL Returns to the Third World
- Designer Steels for Advanced Energy Applications
- New DNA Stain Aids Cell Studies
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
- Books. Chaos, by James Gleick, reviewed by Woody Gove
- R&D Updates. Alvin Trivelpiece: ORNL's new director; two HHIRF devices operating; tritium pellet injector for fusion demonstrated; DOE Superconductivity Pilot Center located at ORNL
- Technical Highlights. Hood River Conservation Project an energy-saving success; decline in tree growth linked to aluminum "freed" from soil by acid rain
- Technology Transfer. Valley-Todeco licensed to make aircraft fasteners from ORNL alloy; metallamics to manufacture nickel aluminide products
Vol. 21, No. 2, ( 1988)
State of the Laboratory- State of the Laboratory: "Gee Whiz". Ceramics strengthened by microwaves, superconducting films, a computer program featuring a "bug" that learns, a microbe that destroys PCBs in soil, a laser having a tuning range 2000 times greater than its commercial counterpart, an energy-efficient liquid separation system, and chemically produced whiskers that strengthen ceramics are "gee whiz" achievements in 1987. In his final State of the Laboratory address as ORNL director, Herman Postma challenges the staff to set new directions and learn from past mistakes.
- Susan Whatley: From Fast Track to Slow Boat. Impelled by economic necessity and an enthusiasm for learning, Susan Whatley rose from secretary to engineer to manager to professional society president in a short time. Now retired, she and her husband are sailing around the world. Accompanying articles tell about ORNL's mentoring program and progress in affirmative action.
- Imaging the World's Longest Dinosaur. An ORNL acoustic technique for imaging underground features has determined the precise positions of buried bones of the longest dinosaur ever discovered and should help guide and hasten the excavation of this Seismosaurus.
- Awards and Appointments
- Take a Number
- Books. The Making of the Atomic Bomb is reviewed. Recent books authored or edited by ORNL staff members are listed.
- Technical Highlights. HFIR shutdown stops production of californium-252. A robot-like manipulator for NASA is being built at ORNL.
- R&D Updates. The HTML wins an award from Research & Development. Tumulus disposal of low-level wastes has been demonstrated.
- Technology Transfer. An ORNL surveying system has been licensed to Chemrad Corporation. 1987 patentees from ORNL are listed.
Vol. 21, No. 1, ( 1988)
Transferring ORNL Technology- Toward a "Technological Commons"
- A New Licensing Approach
- Industrial R&D Consortia
- Local ORNL Spin-off Companies
- Designing Chips by Computer. ORNL is custom designing microchips for specific uses, such as tracking the migration of killer bees, due in the United States by next year.
- Images of the Heart. New developments from ORNL's Nuclear Medicine Group will improve diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases and aid in cancer detection.
- "We Have the Best People Around": Interview with Associate Director Robert Merriman. Bob Merriman discusses his new job, nuclear power, ORNL's environmental problems, robotics, SDI research, and AVLIS for uranium enrichment.
- Microwave Processing of Ceramics: An Interdisciplinary Approach. High-frequency microwaves may be used to strengthen large, already-formed ceramic parts having complex shapes.
- Take a Number
- Awards and Appointments
- Books. Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer is reviewed.
- R&D Updates. Athens Automation and Control Experiment proves successful; impact statement completed on disposal of chemical weapons; the Advanced Toroidal Facility achieves its first plasma
- Technology Transfer. U.S. steelmaker acquires rights for use of ORNL alloy.