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September 6, 2016The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Momentum Technologies have signed a non-exclusive licensing agreement for an ORNL process designed to recover rare earth magnets from used computer hard drives.Office of Technology Commercialization
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August 30, 2016OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Aug. 29, 2016 – A 3D printed trim-and-drill tool, developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to be evaluated at The Boeing Company, has received the title of largest solid 3D printed item ...Office of Technology Commercialization
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August 22, 2016The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced it will invest a total of $3 million in nine projects selected under its University Training and Research (UTR) program, which awards research-based educational grants to U.S. universities and college...Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office
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August 19, 2016AMO to Co-Sponsor the 2016 World Energy Engineering Congress – Sept. 21–23...Advanced Manufacturing & Industrial Decarbonization
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July 27, 2016A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a novel way to produce two-dimensional nanosheets by separating bulk materials with nontoxic liquid nitrogen. The environmentally friendly process gene...Office of Technology Commercialization
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Press ReleasesJuly 13, 2016After more than two years of planning and construction, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has commissioned a major new facility to explore ways to optimize plasma for the production of nanoparticles.Office of Technology Commercialization
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July 11, 2016There’s plenty of room at the bottom," said Richard P. Feynman in 1959 to the American Physical Society at the California Institute o...National Nuclear Security Administration
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Success StoryJuly 7, 2016EERE Success Story—AMO Sponsored Research Continues to Advance Polymer Manufacturing MethodsOffice of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation
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July 1, 2016Thor’s aim is to study materials at extreme pressures, which helps NNSA ensure a safe, secure, effective nuclear deterrent. Thor is di...National Nuclear Security Administration
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June 16, 2016FE, through the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), is looking at ways to use coal and its byproducts (like coal ash from power plants, for instance) to develop new sources of critical rare earth elements, or REEs.Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office