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CBI hosts sponsors, team
members for first annual review
The Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI) hosted its first annual review on Nov. 14-15, with DOE sponsors, reviewers from academia and a national lab, and 50 CBI team members from various institutions in attendance. Participants, including Sharlene Weatherwax, the DOE Associate Director of Science for Biological and Environmental Research, received an overview of first-year accomplishments in CBI's three research domains—accelerative science, integrative analysis and understanding, and use-inspired research. Presentations on scientific progress, center management, and second-year plans were presented by Jerry Tuskan, CBI’s director, and research team leads including ORNL’s Wellington Muchero and Dan Jacobson. The group also toured lab facilities, including greenhouses, laboratories, and the Summit supercomputer.
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Director's Message
December 6, 2018 | As we enter the last month of the calendar year, we have much to celebrate. I was delighted to host our DOE sponsors from the Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER)—Sharlene Weatherwax, DOE Associate Director of Science; Todd Anderson, Director of Biological Systems Science Division; and Kent Peters, Program Manager for Bioenergy Research Centers—during the first annual review of the Center for Bioenergy Innovation in mid-November.
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During their visit, we held discussions on opportunities for biological neutron and nanoscale science at the Spallation Neutron Source, toured Summit, and provided briefings on our strategic initiatives in biosecurity, biomedical, and our vision for genes-to-ecosystems. We received positive initial feedback, and I could not be more impressed with the team's technical depth and poise. A special thank you to Jerry Tuskan, Renae Speck, Brian Davison, and Teddie Reagan for your leadership with CBI. Formal feedback will be forthcoming in January.
Our ground-breaking work continues to be recognized at the highest level as demonstrated by recent awards. Congratulations to the R&D 100 award winners! EESD researchers were engaged in five of the six ORNL projects winning this prestigious, international award recognizing outstanding technological achievements. This year’s six honors bring ORNL’s total of R&D 100 Awards to 216 since their inception in 1963.
The R&D 100 honorees in EESD included Rose Ruther, who was on the team developing high voltage electrolytes for ultracapacitors; Tom Karnowski and Derek Rose participated in the development of the Multinode Evolutionary Neural Networks for Deep Learning; Jerry Tuskan, Xiaohan Yang and Henrique De Paoli developed the TNT Cloning System; Lonnie Love, Peter Lloyd, Brian Post and William Carter were on the team creating the Ambient Reactive Extrusion Additive Manufacturing technology; and Yilu Liu, Tom King, and Lingwei Zhan were recognized for the development of the Mobile Universal Grid Analyzer.
We also celebrate the receipt of the prestigious Gordon Bell prize for exceptional accomplishment in high-performance computing by the ORNL team led by Dan Jacobson in EESD and Wayne Joubert in CCSD. They developed an algorithm to explore population-scale genomic datasets for clues to conditions such as opioid addiction and in the process broke the exascale barrier on the Summit supercomputer. The same project was lauded with an ORNL Director's Award for Research Accomplishment in October.
Kudos to the 15 ORNL scientists who were named to the 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list by Clarivate Analytics. This year's list includes six in EESD: Ilias Belharouak, Terry Hazen, Richard Norby, Arthur Ragauskas, Peter Thornton, and Jerry Tuskan. The list recognizes researchers who have published multiple, highly cited papers ranking in the top echelon in their respective fields.
Congratulations to Amy Wolfe, who was elected an AAAS Fellow in the Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering section. And congrats to Jeremy Smith, who received an INCITE program award to fund his team's exploration of the physical properties of biomass solvents using the lab's HPC resources and advanced molecular dynamics simulations. Our Innovation Crossroads fellows continue to be recognized as well. Anna Douglas of SkyNano and Megan O'Connor of Nth Cycle were recently named to the Forbes "30 under 30-Energy 2019" list.
During November, we hosted a group from Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, including Laboratory Director Ethan Dmitrovsky, with Paul Gilna and Marti Head leading discussions on our biosecurity and biomedical initiatives for identifying and deepening potential collaborative opportunities. Elsewhere, our DOE sponsor Bruce Walker, Assistant Secretary for the Office of Electricity, participated in the plenary session for the Maritime Risk Symposium hosted by the Global Security Directorate to explore breakthrough energy solutions for the marine transportation sector. Following, Walker met with staff for updates on our grid-related research activities. EESD also held a Desalination Technologies Research workshop in November, hosted by Yarom Polsky.
I was pleased to support the announcement of Thomas Kurfess and Scott Smith—two esteemed leaders in US manufacturing innovation—who will be joining ORNL in January to further our pioneering research in advanced manufacturing. Kurfess will spearhead the development of new platforms and control systems that will enable autonomous manufacturing through robotics and controls. He comes to ORNL from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is the HUSCO/Ramirez distinguished chair in fluid power and motion control and professor of mechanical engineering. Smith, professor and chair of mechanical engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will lead ORNL’s advanced machining and machine tool research, focused on developing the systems, processes, sensors and controls needed to reinvigorate the US industrial base and bolster national security.
Recruiting remains our greatest challenge in the year ahead as we pursue our goal of being the world’s premier research institution. I encourage you to engage your division director or group leader and share your thoughts on this important topic.
Lastly, I'm looking forward to the new directorate energy talks seminar series launching in January, featuring presentations by staff engaged in diverse research projects across the organization. More details will be available in the coming weeks and I hope you will join me in taking the opportunity to learn more about our colleagues' fascinating work, and how you might find ways to collaborate on new challenges.
Wishing all the best to you and yours for a happy and safe holiday season. —Moe
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Puerto Rico project: ORNL provides technical help as the island territory rebuilds and modernizes its power grid infrastructure. Read more
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ORNL's collaborative work in refrigeration was highlighted in a special issue of Industria e formazione, presented at the fall Montreal Protocol meeting. Read more
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Melanie Mayes was one of five lead authors on the US Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report, a decadal assessment of carbon cycle science across North America. Read more
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Ceramic-metal composites for heat exchangers in concentrated solar power plants | M. Caccia, M. Tabandeh-Khorshid, G. Itskos, A.R. Strayer, A.S. Caldwell, S. Pidaparti, S. Singnisai, A.D. Rohskopf, A.M. Schroeder, D. Jarrahbashi, T. Kang, S. Sahoo, N.R. Kadasala, A. Marquez-Rossy, M. H. Anderson, E. Lara-Curzio, D. Ranjan, A. Henry, K.H. Sandhage. 17 October 2018. Read more
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Biofuels Bioproducts & Biorefining
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The impact of alternative land and yield assumptions in herbaceous biomass supply modeling: one-size-fits-all resource assessment? | Laurence Eaton, Matthew Langholtz, Maggie Davis. 01 November 2018. Read more
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ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications
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Novel experimental study of fabric drying using direct-contact ultrasonic vibration | Viral K. Patel, Frederick Kyle Reed, Roger Kisner, Chang Peng, Saeed Moghaddam and Ayyoub Mehdizadeh Momen. 05 November 2018. Read more
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Methane emissions from tree stems: a new frontier in the global carbon cycle | Josep Barba, Mark A. Bradford, Paul E. Brewer, Dan Bruhn, Kristofer Covey, Joost van Haren, J. Patrick Megonigal, Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen, Sunitha R. Pangala, Mari Pihlatie, Ben Poulter, Albert Rivas‐Ubach, Christopher W. Schadt, Kazuhiko Terazawa, Daniel L. Warner, Zhen Zhang, Rodrigo Vargas. 05 November 2018. Read more
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Electroelastic investigation of drying rate in the direct contact ultrasonic fabric dewatering process | Eric D.Dupuis, Ayyoub M.Momen, Viral K.Patel, Shima Shahab. 06 November 2018. Read more
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The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society
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Seasonal patterns of nonstructural carbohydrate reserves in four woody boreal species | Morgan E. Furze, Anna M. Jensen, Jeffrey M. Warren, Andrew D. Richardson. 06 November 2018. Read more
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Impacts of temperature and soil characteristics on methane production and oxidation in Arctic tundra | Jianqiu Zheng, Taniya RoyChowdhury, Ziming Yang, Baohua Gu, Stan D. Wullschleger, David E. Graham. 08 November 2018.
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Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
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Process-Defect-Structure-Property correlations during laser powder bed fusion of alloy 718: Role of in situ and ex situ characterizations | Sarah Foster, Keith Carver, Ralph Dinwiddie, Fred List, Kinga Unocic, Suresh Babu 22 November 2018. Read more
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A simplified methodology to estimate energy savings in commercial buildings from improvements in airtightness | Mahabir Bhandari, Diana Hun, Som Shrestha, Simon Pallin, Melissa Lapsa. 28 November 2018. Read more
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A hybrid building thermal modeling approach for predicting temperatures in typical, detached, two-story houses | Borui Cui, Cheng Fan, Jeffrey Munk, Ning Mao, Fu Xiao, Jin Dong, Teja Kuruganti. 29 November 2018. Read more
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TRANSPORTATION:
Going with the flow
To study the potential benefits of connected and automated vehicles, ORNL researchers developed a simulation framework that analyzes the impact of partial market penetration of CAVs on fuel consumption, travel time and traffic flow in merging on-ramp scenarios. Read more
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GRID: Balancing act
ORNL scientists have devised a method to control the heating and cooling systems of a large network of buildings for power grid stability—all while ensuring the comfort of occupants. Read more
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Redshift video highlights results of ORNL collaboration on 3D-printed concrete molds. The research combined expertise from the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility and the Building Technologies Research and Integration Center to enable development of printed molds used in a case study by Gate Precast for a New York factory redevelopment project. Read more
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Omar Demerdash:
Simulations, machine learning to speed biological discoveries
Russell Fellow Omar Demerdash is modeling and analyzing how molecules interact with proteins to hasten the development of drug therapies for cancer. Read more
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Jason Richards:
A history of service
After more than a decade spent photographing scientific achievements at ORNL, Jason Richards has stepped out from behind the camera and into the lab, in a move that continues a career focused on serving his country and community. Read more
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The R&D 100 Award-winning TNT Cloning System developed by ORNL researchers is a powerful tool for DNA assembly and synthetic biology. Pictured L-R: Xiaohan Yang (ORNL inventor), Rob Moseley and Ben Mohr (of licensee SimPath LLC), and Jerry Tuskan (ORNL inventor).
R&D 100 Awards
ORNL researchers received six R&D 100 awards this year for outstanding accomplishments. Of those, five projects involved EESD researchers. Read more |
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Dan Jacobson, center, and team accepting the 2018 Association for Computing Machinery's Gordon Bell Prize.
Gordon Bell Prize
ORNL researchers led by Dan Jacobson and Wayne Joubert received the Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. The team developed a genomics algorithm that achieved exascale speeds while analyzing population-scale datasets to uncover networks of genes that influence traits such as opioid addiction, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's, and other conditions. Read more
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Jeremy Smith has received an INCITE (Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment) program award to analyze simulations of solvents for use in biomass applications.
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Amy Wolfe has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for distinguished achievements in quality, visibility, and application of social science research.
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Secret Santas from across the lab participated in this year's Angel Tree gift drive, making merry at the Building 1505 drop-off in late November as part of the annual ORNL-wide event. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this program reaching out to families in need across our region.
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DECEMBER
Washington, DC
JANUARY
Panama City, Panama
Indianapolis, IN
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