5 months ago
Summit, neutrons crack code to uranium compound’s signature vibes
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to map the molecular vibrations of an important but little-studied uranium compound produced during the nuclear fuel cycle for results …
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3 years ago
Closely Spaced Hydrogen Atoms Could Facilitate Superconductivity in Ambient Condition
By: Paul Boisvert, 502-229-4466, BoisvertPL@ornl.gov
An international team of researchers has discovered the hydrogen atoms in a metal hydride material are much more tightly spaced than had been predicted for …
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3 years ago
Titan Supercomputer and Spallation Neutron Source Unite to Probe the Inner Workings of c-Src kinase
Proteins are the workhorses of our body’s cells, performing vital functions we can’t live without—everything from helping form antibodies to transporting nutrients to providing structure for the cells themselves. The …
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4 years ago
A Problem with Polymer Theory
Researchers at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), used high-performance computing …
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