February 26, 2026
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October 28, 2024
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Up to bat: Protecting endangered bats with biomaterials
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are using a new bioderived material to 3D print custom roosting structures for endangered bats.
June 7, 2024
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Webb named Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
Erin Webb, lead for the Bioresources Science and Engineering group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers — the society’s highest honor.
April 16, 2024
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Q&A with Erin Webb: Toward a Tennessee circular bioeconomy
ORNL’s Erin Webb is co-leading a new Circular Bioeconomy Systems Convergent Research Initiative focused on advancing production and use of renewable carbon from Tennessee to meet societal needs.
March 15, 2024
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Sustainable biomass production capacity could triple US bioeconomy, report finds
The United States could triple its current bioeconomy by producing more than 1 billion tons per year of plant-based biomass for renewable fuels, while meeting projected demands for food, feed, fiber, conventional forest products and exports, according to the DOE’s latest Billion-Ton Report led by ORNL.
February 15, 2024
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UT-ORII selects two new UT-ORNL convergent research initiatives
The University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute has selected circular bioeconomy systems and radiopharmaceutical therapies as its two newest Convergent Research Initiatives, areas of joint research for UT and ORNL.
December 7, 2022
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Naturally derived materials fit for 3D printing
The presence of minerals called ash in plants makes little difference to the fitness of new naturally derived compound materials designed for additive manufacturing, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-led team found.
October 19, 2020
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National laboratories point to sugars as key factor in ideal feedstock
Popular wisdom holds tall, fast-growing trees are best for biomass, but new research by two U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories reveals that is only part of the equation.
March 23, 2018
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Biomaterials for additive manufacturing
A thermoplastic-based composite feedstock known as carbon fiber–ABS is the workhorse of polymer- composite 3D printing at DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, located at ORNL. It was the material that created the first 3D-printed car (the Strati), one of the first 3D-printed buildings (the...
September 15, 2017
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ORNL Traveling Science Fair visits Union County
A recent stop of the ORNL Traveling Science Fair was at Wilson Park in Maynardville, TN. All Union County K-12 students plus some students from surrounding counties attended. Dr. Erin Webb, an Agricultural Engineer and native of Union County, was one of the guides in the Energy and Envir...
February 13, 2017
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Erin Webb: Exploring the possibilities of a bioeconomy
As an agricultural engineer, Erin Webb would do almost anything in the name of science. Not so long ago, the senior research and development scientist within Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Environmental Sciences Division was hauling cow waste in buckets once a week from a col...
January 27, 2017
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Estimating the size of economic activities and rural job opportunities in a corn stover bioeconomy
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) recently conducted a study to quantify the required logistical resources to support the development of a corn stover bioeconomy. Corn stover was selected as it is the most abundant biomass residue in the USA due to the massive production of corn grain in the coun...