A team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee studied carbon fibers made from lignin, a woody plant polymer known as, and found a mixture of perfectly spherical nanoscale crystallites distributed within a fibrous matrix. They found the lignin fiber’s unique structure could make it useful as a battery anode, potentially improving

Neutron scattering research at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has revealed clear structural differences in the normal and pathological forms of a protein involved in Huntington’s disease. Huntington’s disease, an incurable neurodegenerative disorder, starts as a genetic mutation that leads to an overabundance of “huntingtin” protein fragments, which form clumps in the

Neutron scattering and heat capacity techniques were used to investigate two frustrated magnets with similar structure, but different sized spins (S).The research team, led by McMaster University, found the molybdate pyrochlore oxide material, Lu2Mo2O7 (S=1) undergoes a transition to a spin glass ground state, while the oxynitride Lu2Mo2O5N2 (S=1/2) possesses a quantum spin liquid ground