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oakridgelabnews posted a photo: The Carbon Fiber Technology Facility (CFTF), established in 2013, is the Department of Energy’s only designated user facility for carbon fiber innovation. The CFTF, a 42,000 sq. ft. facility, provides a platform for identifying high potential, low-cost raw materials, including textile, polymer, and hydrocarbon-based precursors.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: The Carbon Fiber Technology Facility (CFTF), established in 2013, is the Department of Energy’s only designated user facility for carbon fiber innovation. The CFTF, a 42,000 sq. ft. facility, provides a platform for identifying high potential, low-cost raw materials, including textile, polymer, and hydrocarbon-based precursors.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: The Carbon Fiber Technology Facility (CFTF), established in 2013, is the Department of Energy’s only designated user facility for carbon fiber innovation. The CFTF, a 42,000 sq. ft. facility, provides a platform for identifying high potential, low-cost raw materials, including textile, polymer, and hydrocarbon-based precursors.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: The Carbon Fiber Technology Facility (CFTF), established in 2013, is the Department of Energy’s only designated user facility for carbon fiber innovation. The CFTF, a 42,000 sq. ft. facility, provides a platform for identifying high potential, low-cost raw materials, including textile, polymer, and hydrocarbon-based precursors.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: The Carbon Fiber Technology Facility (CFTF), established in 2013, is the Department of Energy’s only designated user facility for carbon fiber innovation. The CFTF, a 42,000 sq. ft. facility, provides a platform for identifying high potential, low-cost raw materials, including textile, polymer, and hydrocarbon-based precursors.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: The Carbon Fiber Technology Facility (CFTF), established in 2013, is the Department of Energy’s only designated user facility for carbon fiber innovation. The CFTF, a 42,000 sq. ft. facility, provides a platform for identifying high potential, low-cost raw materials, including textile, polymer, and hydrocarbon-based precursors.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: The Carbon Fiber Technology Facility (CFTF), established in 2013, is the Department of Energy’s only designated user facility for carbon fiber innovation. The CFTF, a 42,000 sq. ft. facility, provides a platform for identifying high potential, low-cost raw materials, including textile, polymer, and hydrocarbon-based precursors.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: The Carbon Fiber Technology Facility (CFTF), established in 2013, is the Department of Energy’s only designated user facility for carbon fiber innovation. The CFTF, a 42,000 sq. ft. facility, provides a platform for identifying high potential, low-cost raw materials, including textile, polymer, and hydrocarbon-based precursors.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: A variable temperature atomic force microscopy within an ultrahigh vacuum chamber (Scienta Omicron VT Scanning Probe Microscope) provides versatile microscopy capabilities to image the shape and behavior of materials at the nanoscale, July 2024.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: On behalf of the National Nuclear Security Administration, ORNL manages and operates the nation’s Mobile Uranium Facility, a modular uranium processing system of mobile ISO containers that can be rapidly deployed anywhere in the world to safely and securely characterize, process, package, and ship nuclear materials.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: Aerial of sunrise over ORNL east campus, April 3, 2023.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: Iodine crystals (I_2) loaded into a water-jacketed glass column. This apparatus provides temperature-controlled iodine vaporization, March 12, 2025.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: ORNL researchers are developing new technologies accelerate the pace of plant transformation, July 22, 2021.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: Spring blooms frame the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, March 25, 2026. The facility supports neutron scattering research that advances U.S. leadership in materials science, enabling innovations that strengthen energy security, industrial competitiveness and national security.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: A ray-traced synthetic image from SOLPS plasma-emission simulations, with vessel materials rendered as glass for visualization. This modeling helps researchers understand how light interacts with in-vessel components and how real-world diagnostics would view the plasma during experiments. Image: Curt Johnson/ORNL

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: ORNL research supports DOE initiatives to protect critical infrastructure and strengthen national security, March 24, 2026.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: This critical frequencies demo unit, created and donated to the Lab by retired ORNL Distinguished Staff Member Duane Starr, shows the fourth critical inflection point, as indicated by the three nodes. Criticals occur when the rotational speed corresponds to a natural frequency and are an important phenomenon to understand in the operation of a gas centrifuge. Credi…

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: ORNL delivers the foundational knowledge needed for the discovery, design, synthesis, and fabrication of next-generation materials with novel structures, properties, and function to address pressing energy and national security challenges.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: The world's largest supercomputer for open science, Frontier, April 16, 2024.

oakridgelabnews posted a photo: Spallation Neutron Source RF Circulators. The RF circulators (three round disks in the middle) are positioned throughout the SNS Klystron Gallery. They protect the klystrons by directing the RF energy out of the klystrons down to the LINAC tunnel. Any reflected energy that comes back up toward the klystron gets directed to an RF load instead of the klystron. If the…