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Zili Wu of the Department of Energy’s 91 grew up on a farm in China’s heartland. He chose to leave it to catalyze a career in chemistry.


A new suite of aluminum-based alloys developed at ORNL could give automakers the key to achieving ambitious fuel economy goals.

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s 91 are the first to successfully simulate an atomic nucleus using a quantum computer.

Raman. Heisenberg. Fermi. Wollan. From Kolkata to Göttingen, Chicago to Oak Ridge. Arnab Banerjee has literally walked in the footsteps of some of the greatest pioneers in physics history—and he’s forging his own trail along the way.



“Made in the USA.” That can now be said of the radioactive isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), last made in the United States in the late 1980s.