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ORNL wins four federal lab awards for tech transfer

Posted at 12:02 pm February 9, 2017
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Open Port Sampling Interfaces for Mass Spectrometry, invented by Gary Van Berkel (left) and Vilmos Kertesz, features simplicity and elegance. (Photo by ORNL)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Open Port Sampling Interfaces for Mass Spectrometry, invented by Gary Van Berkel (left) and Vilmos Kertesz, features simplicity and elegance. (Photo by ORNL)

 

Four technologies developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have earned Federal Laboratory Consortium awards for excellence in technology transfer, a press release said.

The FLC is a network of more than 300 federal laboratories, facilities, and research centers dedicated to promoting and strengthening the commercialization of federal laboratory-developed technologies and expertise, the press release said.

The honors place ORNL in elite company, according to Donna Bialozor, FLC Awards committee chair, who wrote: “This year, your laboratory is one of a select number of recipients, an indication that your nominations were truly of the highest caliber.”

Mike Paulus, ORNL’s director of technology transfer, noted that it is especially significant that ORNL won four of the 19 FLC awards for excellence in technology transfer.

“With these latest awards, ORNL has now won 55 since 1986, reaffirming the importance and relevance of our research and development,” Paulus said.

ORNL earned recognition for the following technologies: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: 908 Devices, Barry Goss, Christopher Brown, David Sims, Debasis Bera, DOE, Donna Bialozor, Edna Gergel, Eugene Cochran, Federal Laboratory Consortium, FLC, Gary Van Berkel, James Treadwell, Jennifer Caldwell, John Simpson, Jud Hightower, Kevin Knopp, Kevin Smith, Marc Filigenzi, Marc Filligenzi, mass spectrometry, Michael Ramsey, Mike Paulus, Miniature Ion Trap Mass Analyzer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Science, Open Port Sampling Interfaces for Mass Spectrometry, ORNL, Piranha Text Mining Tool, R&D 100 Award, Robert Patton, Samsung, SCIEX, Superhydrophobic Transparent Glass Thin Film Innovation, tech transfer, technology transfer, thin film coating, Thomas Potok, Tolga Aytug, Tom Covey, U.S. Department of Energy, UT-Battelle, Vilmos Kertesz, Vortex Analytics, William Whitten, Yoon Goo Lee

Samsung licenses ORNL glass coatings for electronics that can repel water, reduce reflection

Posted at 1:51 pm December 28, 2016
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An ORNL-developed thin glass film with superhydrophobic properties repels water that carries away dust and dirt, reduces light reflection, and resists fingerprints and smudges. (Image by Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced this fall that Samsung Electronics has exclusively licensed a technology that can improve the performance of glass displays on smart phones, tablets, and other electronic devices.

ORNL has developed a transparent coating that repels water, carrying away dust and dirt; reduces light reflection; and resists fingerprints and smudges. The optically clear superhydrophobic film technology was the result of about three years of superhydrophobic research on glass-based coatings, ORNL said in a press release.

“The thin nanostructured layer of porous glass film enables these combined properties, making it suitable for commercial applications,” said ORNL’s Tolga Aytug, co-inventor of the technology.

To be superhydrophobic, a surface must achieve a water droplet contact angle exceeding 150 degrees. ORNL’s coating has a contact angle of between 155 and 165 degrees, so water literally bounces off, taking away dust particles, the press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Brian D’Urso, Daniela Bogorin, David Christen, glass displays, glass-based coating, John Simpson, Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program and Technology Innovation Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Parans Paranthaman, R&D 100 Award, Samsung Electronics, superhydrophobic, superhydrophobic film technology, superhydrophobic research, superhydrophobic technology, thin glass film, Tolga Aytug

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