Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Congressman Chuck Fleischmann and lab officials this week broke ground on a multipurpose research facility that will provide state-of-the-art laboratory space for expanding scientific activities at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The new Translational Research Capability, or TRC, will be purpose-built for world-leading research in computing and materials…
Neutrons Peer into a Running Engine
In a first-of-a-kind experiment, researchers used neutrons to investigate the performance of a new aluminum alloy in a gasoline-powered engine—while the engine was running. A team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory worked with industry partners to perform the test, which looked at whether a high-performance alloy that is promising for automotive…
Qubitekk Licenses ORNL Single-Photon Source Approach for Quantum Encryption
Qubitekk has non-exclusively licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-developed method to produce quantum light particles, known as photons, in a controlled, deterministic manner that promises improved speed and security when sharing encrypted data. Current encryption techniques rely on complex mathematical algorithms to code information that is decipherable only to the recipient who knows the encryption…