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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $430 Million to Accelerate Domestic Clean Energy Manufacturing in Former Coal Communities

As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE…

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Jordan Cannon, a 2024 Innovation Crossroads cohort participant from Circular Biosciences, smiles in a professional headshot. The background features the Innovation Crossroads logo and the text 'Cohort 2024.' Partner logos of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy’s LEEP (Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program), and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) are displayed at the bottom.

Jordan Cannon: Engineering enzymes to enable sustainable bioplastics

Plastic pollution negatively impacts human and animal health as well as the stability of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Also,…

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Electron microscopy measurements are usually performed by collecting all points in a 2D grid. Here, using deep learning in real time, only sites of interest are measured (colored circles), allowing experiments to be conducted on a much larger variety of materials, even those that change under the beam. Credit: Kevin Roccapriore and Scott Gibson/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

New technique could unlock potential of quantum materials

A research team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has devised a unique method to…

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DOE Awards $270K to Advance National Laboratory IP Towards Commercialization

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) has announced nine Phase 2 winners for the Making Advanced…

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Enhancing biodegradability is the focus of Circular Biosciences

Imagine embedding an enzyme inside a product so that it can biodegrade much faster than it normally would. Well, that is the focus…

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