PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Dec. 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: * * * NETL's Ngoc Tien Huynh uses coal waste derived graphite to make a lithium-ion battery for performance testing. * * * NETL's research has unlocked a low-temperature synthesis process to make America's coal waste into critical mineral graphite with a lower processing intensity. This takes what would otherwise be an environmental liability and inste  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Kris Gaines is on a nonproliferation mission: to make it easier for more countries to eliminate highly enriched uranium, or HEU, thus neutralizing the inherent threat of its potential for nefarious use. As a nuclear nonproliferation specialist and project manager at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Gaines leads aspects of an important project   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Spark Innovation Center Director Lilly Trench shared that Knoxville is ranked in the top 20 hubs in the United States for clean technology--in large part because of the work of Knoxville-based organizations, such as ORNL's Innovation Crossroads, a Department of Energy Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program that offers a two-year fellowship for researchers working to ad  more