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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 18-Jun-2025 17:10 ET (18-Jun-2025 21:10 GMT/UTC)

Nanofibers yield stronger, tougher carbon fiber composites

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an innovative new technique using carbon nanofibers to enhance binding in carbon fiber and other fiber-reinforced polymer composites – an advance likely to improve structural materials for automobiles, airplanes and other applications that require lightweight and strong materials.

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials

B61-13 first production unit completed ahead of schedule

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories and the nuclear security enterprise delivered the first unit of the B61-13 gravity bomb about a year ahead of schedule.

Sandia to help propel US semiconductor manufacturing

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has joined a new partnership aimed at helping the United States regain its leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.

Center for Bioenergy Innovation taps Cregger, Eckert as chief science officers

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The Center for Bioenergy Innovation, or CBI, at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has promoted Melissa Cregger and Carrie Eckert to serve as chief science officers, advancing the center’s mission of innovations for new domestic biofuels, chemicals and materials.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

Using AI to construct on the level

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Researchers at ORNL have developed a tool that gives builders a quick way to measure, correct and certify level foundations. FLAT, or the Flat and Level Analysis Tool, examines a 360-degree laser scan of a construction site using ORNL-developed segmentation algorithms and machine learning to locate uneven areas on a concrete slab.

Quantum Science Center summer school draws record attendance

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The fifth annual Quantum Science Center, or QSC, Summer School at Purdue University, held Apr. 21 through Apr. 25, 2025, welcomed its largest group of students to date. Experts from industry, academia and national laboratories gathered at the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute to share their research in multiple areas of quantum science.

UT-Battelle, industry partners energize Oak Ridge High School STEM program with state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

UT-Battelle has contributed up to $475,000 for the purchase and installation of advanced manufacturing equipment to support a program at Tennessee’s Oak Ridge High School that gives students direct experience with the AI- and robotics-assisted workplace of the future.

Novel data streaming software chases light speed from accelerator to supercomputer

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Analyzing massive datasets from nuclear physics experiments can take hours or days to process, but researchers are working to radically reduce that time to mere seconds using special software being developed at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge national laboratories.

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