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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • “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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Marc Janoschek, left, and David Fobes discuss features of quantum materials. (Image Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory)
    Self-Assembling, tunable interfaces found in quantum materials
  • Biochemistry Ph.D. student Gabriela Schroder works at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (Photo by Genevieve Martin)
    Student Spotlight: “I Enjoy the Challenge of Solving Problems”
  • A newly discovered material called BiMn3Cr4O12, represented by the crystal structure, exhibits a rare combination of magnetic and electrical properties. The arrows illustrate the spin moments for the elements chromium (Cr) in yellow and manganese (Mn) in blue. Studying this material’s behavior could lead to improved applications in technology and information storage. (Image credit: Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences/Youwen Long)
    Neutrons Help Demystify Multiferroic Materials
  • Notre Dame Professor Peter Kilpatrick making adjustments to the EQ-SANS sample loader in preparation for neutron investigation. (ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Neutrons Provide New Polish for Petroleum Processing and More
  • Shown as green spheres, microcapsules containing the polymer manganoporphyrin, a newly developed antioxidant (green), the natural antioxidant tannic acid (yellow), and a binding material (blue), can be analyzed for stability and efficiency with neutrons. Measuring the thickness of the capsule shells in the presence of oxidants could help researchers adapt this polymer for a host of biomedical applications. (Image credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman)
    Neutrons Reveal Promising Properties of Novel Antioxidant Polymer
  • Researcher Rob Schmidt and his team are using neutrons at HFIR’s CG-1D imaging instrument to study the development of dendrites with hope of improving the design of next-generation lithium ion batteries. Dendrites are thin microscopic fibers that can carry electrical current inside lithium batteries and, in some cases, cause safety and reliability issues. (Image credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Testing Lithium Battery Limitations May Improve Safety and Lifetimes
  • The Weyl semimetal state is induced when the opposing motions of the electrons cause the Dirac cones to split in two (illustrated on the left by outward facing electrons, opposite the inward facing electrons on the right). The abnormal state enables greater electrical flow with minimal resistance. (Image credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman)
    Neutrons Reveal the Wild Weyl World of Semimetals

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