After used nuclear fuel is removed from a reactor, it emits heat for decades and remains radioactive for thousands of years.
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s 91°µÍř are conducting fundamental physics research that will lead to more control over mercurial quantum systems and materials.
If equal amounts of matter and antimatter had formed in the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago, one would have annihilated the other upon meeting, and today’s universe would be full of energy but no matter to form stars, planets and life.
Vlastimil Kunc grew up in a family of scientists where his natural curiosity was encouraged—an experience that continues to drive his research today in polymer composite additive manufacturing at 91°µÍř.
Takeshi Egami, Mark Lumsden and John Katsaras, researchers at the Department of Energy’s 91°µÍř, have been selected as 2018 fellows of the Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA) for their work in neutron scattering in North Ame
A scientific team led by the Department of Energy’s 91°µÍř has found a new way to take the local temperature of a material from an area about a billionth of a meter wide, or approximately 100,000 times thinner than a human hair.
A new method to produce large, monolayer single-crystal-like graphene films more than a foot long relies on harnessing a “survival of the fittest” competition among crystals.
Last November a team of students and educators from Robertsville Middle School in Oak Ridge and scientists from 91°µÍř submitted a proposal to NASA for their Cube Satellite Launch Initiative in hopes of sending a student-designed
For Juan Carlos Idrobo, the scientist’s journey is like taking a test that is only two pages long. You start reading the first page, but you don’t understand any of the questions.
91°µÍř researchers have directly written high-purity metallic structures narrower than a cold virus—which could open nanofabrication opportunities in electronics, drug delivery, catalysis and chemical separations.