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  • University of Pennsylvania researcher Kushol Gupta is using the Bio-SANS instrument at ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor to study the defense mechanisms of HIV in hopes of improving antiviral drug applications. (Image credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Two Steps Ahead: Neutrons Help Explore Future HIV Treatments
    August 23, 2018
  • The artistic representation illustrates a measurement of a beam in a particle accelerator, demonstrating the beam’s structural complexity increases when measured in progressively higher dimensions. Each increase in dimension reveals information that was previously hidden. (Image credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman)
    UT-ORNL team makes first particle accelerator beam measurement in six dimensions
    August 10, 2018
  • As protons (yellow) strike the target vessel and pass into the liquid mercury inside, the protons are absorbed, creating neutrons (blue) that are then sent through moderators and beam tubes to research instruments to study the fundamental properties of materials. (Image credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman)
    SNS completes full neutron production cycle at record power level
    August 9, 2018
  • Yu Song, a researcher with the University of California–Berkeley, is shown preparing copper-doped samples of iron telluride, which were shown via neutron scattering at ORNL to have significantly altered magnetic properties. This research could help lead to faster and more efficient electrical systems and electronic devices. (Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Gold ore’s chemical cousin helps reveal family secrets
    July 24, 2018
  • Lu Huang, USS industrial research engineer prepares a lightweighted advanced high strength steel component for neutron research at the Spallation Neutron Source’s VULCAN instrument. Data from this study may make it faster and easier for companies to design automotive components that are lighter, more durable, and safer. Image Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin
    Neutrons analyze advanced high-strength steels to improve vehicle safety and efficiency
    July 16, 2018
  • ORNL Instrument Scientist Clarina de la Cruz used the HB-2A Neutron Powder Diffractometer at the High Flux Isotope Reactor to analyze a cobalt-doped thermoelectric material boasting a record increase in room-temperature performance. (Image credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Scientists use neutrons to take a deeper look at record boost in thermoelectric efficiency
    June 18, 2018
  • Ernest Wollan (left) and Clifford Shull work with a double-crystal neutron spectrometer at the ORNL X-10 Graphite Reactor in 1949.
    A History of Neutron Scattering at ORNL
    June 13, 2018
  • Illustration of a nitrogen dioxide molecule (depicted in red and gold) confined within a nano-size pore of an MFM-300(Al) metal-organic framework material as characterized using neutron scattering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Image credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman
    Robust MOF material exhibits selective, fully reversible and repeatable capture of toxic atmospheric gas
    June 11, 2018
  • As part of the production process, an actinium-227 sample goes through a final step in the hot cell before being prepared for shipment.
    ORNL ramps up production of key radioisotope for cancer-fighting drug
    June 7, 2018
  • Detectors at SNS and HFIR help researchers study scattered neutrons to better understand the nature of materials. An ORNL team designs detectors tailored to meet the specifications of each instrument, such as the WLS detectors installed at the recently upgraded POWGEN, SNS beamline 11A (left), and the Anger cameras installed at MaNDi, SNS beamline 11B (right). (Image credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Detector Improvements Upgrade Science Capabilities of SNS and HFIR Instruments
    May 31, 2018
  • A neutron diffraction pattern from a crystal of the PKG II enzyme binding domain with an activator bound, collected using the LADI-III beamline at the Institut Laue-Langevin. Credit: Blakeley & Kovalevsky.
    Enzyme associated with stomach cancer and osteoporosis seen in detail for the first time with neutron crystallography
    May 25, 2018
  • University of Copenhagen researchers Heloisa N. Bordallo, Marcella Berg, and Jose Enedilton Medeiros Pereira (left to right) are at SNS to study how cellular water behaves in cancer cells before and after treatment. They hope to determine the effects of a strong anticancer drug and establish whether water dynamics can help predict the progression of cancerous tumors. (Image credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Neutrons Evaluate Connection Between Cellular Water Dynamics and Cancer Cell Behaviors
    May 24, 2018
  • “The question I ask myself is how we can make uncertainty our friend instead of our enemy. That’s what inspires me to do research, to make the unknown known.”—Arnab Banerjee (Image credit: ORNL/Butch Newton)
    Arnab Banerjee: traversing the unknown, befriending uncertainty
    May 21, 2018
  • Energy absorbing cast aluminum lattice samples, before deformation (left) and after deformation (right), were examined at HFIR’s polychromatic cold neutron beamline (CG-1D) for structural quality and behavior under loads. (Image credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Centuries-old Foundry Process Finds New High-Tech Use
    May 15, 2018
  • IMAGE CAPTION: John Einhorn (left) and Matt Steiner working with the Neutron Residual Stress Mapping Facility instrument, beamline HB-2B, at ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor. (Image credit: Genevieve Martin)
    Taking the Stress out of Residual Stress Mapping
    May 10, 2018
  • Investigating the realization of quantum spin ice, researchers Romain Sibille (left) and Nicolas Gauthier are the first users to use HYSPEC’s upgraded supermirror array built by their colleagues at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. (Image credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    PSI Researchers Seek Existence of Exotic Quantum Spin Ice
    May 2, 2018
  • Colin Sarkis and Kate Ross of Colorado State University are using neutrons to study a material with an unusual magnetic structure. This research could both enhance their team’s fundamental understanding of frustrated magnetism and lead to improvements in digital information storage. (Image credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Unusual Magnetic Structure May Support Next-Generation Technology
    April 25, 2018
  • Neutron interactions revealed the orthorhombic structure of the hybrid perovskite stabilized by the strong hydrogen bonds between the nitrogen substituent of the methylammonium cations and the bromides on the corner-linked PbBr6 octahedra. (Image credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman)
    Neutrons Provide Insights into Increased Performance for Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells
    April 23, 2018
  • From left, John Dutcher, Josh Sampson and John Atkinson of the University of Guelph prepare phytoglycogen nanoparticles found in corn to study on the EQ-SANS instrument at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source. The team’s findings could advance many biomedical and personal care applications. Credit: Genevieve Martin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy
    Neutrons—Nanosize matters
    April 18, 2018
  • Uppsala University researcher Marvin Seibert is using neutrons to study RuBisCO, an abundant enzyme essential to life on earth. His team hopes to determine how plants and other organisms use RuBisCO to catalyze a reaction called carbon fixation that converts carbon dioxide into useful organic compounds. (Image credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Spinach Used in Neutron Studies Could Unearth Secret to Stronger Plant Growth
    April 18, 2018

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