Recent News & Highlights

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

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