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ORNL’s capabilities are closely aligned with the US automotive industry, which calls Michigan home. The laboratory has conducted research and development projects for Michigan’s industrial giants including Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Whirlpool, Eaton, Diversified Tooling Group, Leggera Technologies, Quantum Opus, and Perisense.
ORNL’s user facilities offer a diverse set of tools for experiments across a range of fields, including biology, materials and energy sciences, physics, engineering, and chemistry. Learn more about ORNL’s user facilities. Data reflects fiscal year 2020 except for scientific publications, which covers 2016–2020. Partner stories reflect work conducted from 2016 to present.
General Motors has licensed ORNL’s award-winning artificial intelligence software system, the Multinode Evolutionary Neural Networks for Deep Learning, for use in vehicle technology and design. The AI system, known as MENNDL, uses algorithms to design neural networks used for recognizing patterns in datasets of text, images, or sounds. General Motors will assess MENNDL’s potential to improve technology and design for driver assistance systems.
Collaborating with Ann Arbor-based Navitas Systems, ORNL designed a scalable process for making lithium-ion battery electrodes from powder using a dry manufacturing process, which is more affordable while posing fewer environmental and health risks. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Battery Manufacturing Facility analyzed all production steps, from probing how the dry process affects material structure through optimizing manufacturing methods. They finished by testing the resulting electrodes in half-cells and full cells, finding their electrochemical performance at fast charge and discharge rates was superior to that of conventional electrodes made with a chemical slurry.
ORNL and H3D are partnering to characterize the performance of a new gamma ray detector for international safeguards. The project, called Gamma Rodeo, is funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration. The project is an ORNL-led collaboration that also includes Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Sandia and Pacific Northwest national laboratories.
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