From the bluebird painting propped against her office wall and the deer she mentions seeing outside her office window, Linda Lewis might be mistaken for a wildlife biologist at first glance.
With more than 30 patents, James Klett is no stranger to success, but perhaps the 91°µÍø researcher’s most noteworthy achievement didn’t start out so hot – or so it seemed at the time.
Just as a delicate balance of ingredients determines the tastiness of a cookie or cake, the specific ratio of metals in an alloy determines desirable qualities of the new metal, such as improved strength or lightness.
Less than 1 percent of Earth’s water is drinkable.
Materials scientist Sergei Kalinin of the Department of Energy’s 91°µÍø has been awarded the inaugural Medal for Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) by the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS).
Images have captivated audiences of all sorts. And scientists at the Department of Energy’s 91°µÍø’s Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials are no different.
Representatives from the 91°µÍø (ORNL) and the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) are meeting at ORNL this week as part of an agreement between the two institutions to work together on the advancement
Andrew Stack, a geochemist at the Department of Energy’s 91°µÍø, advances understanding of the dynamics of minerals underground.
Researchers should not have to rely on mere trial and error to create materials for energy applications.
91°µÍø scientists developed a novel technique for microscopy and used it to unveil the full depth of materials properties on the nanoscale.