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New facility will accelerate energy storage innovation, increase clean energy adoption and grid resilience.

Researchers used the Advanced Photon Source to confirm the discovery of a new phase of metal, made from suspending particles in crystals and programming them using DNA. This new phase may be useful for new technologies.

ORNL story tips: Beneath the skin, crustacean-inspired cotton, automating clean water, samples in space and capturing furnace emissions

DOE funding across 22 states will drive the development and commercial deployment of advanced technologies for fusion energy, electric vehicles, offshore wind and more.

A modeling study raises questions about how far droplets, like those that carry the virus that causes COVID-19, can travel before becoming harmless.

Researchers at Berkeley Lab are working with five other Department of Energy national labs to develop a roadmap for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to meet its 100% renewable energy mandate. A new fungal strain has been discovered in a spacecraft assembly facility and named after a long-time Berkeley Lab microbiologist, Tamas Torok. MIT physicists and colleagues, including scientists from Berkeley Lab, have discovered the “secret sauce” behind the exotic properties of a new quantum material known as a kagome metal.

ORNL, TVA and TNECD were recognized by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for their impactful partnership that resulted in a record $2.3 billion investment by Ultium Cells, a General Motors and LG Energy Solution joint venture, to build a battery cell manufacturing plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, that will employ 1,300 people. The honor is ORNL’s first-ever FLC award for economic development. Additionally, four technologies developed by ORNL researchers have won Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards.

ORNL story tips: DNA in a drop, printing in the wind, drier air, revealing hidden biology and calculating better batteries