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Carbon dioxide moves into and expands a common mineral in carbon sequestration caprocksMay 2012
Results: For the first time, scientists have direct evidence that high-pressure carbon dioxide or CO2 migrates into the clay montmorillonite causing it to expand, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Montmorillonite is found in the rocks used to cap carbon sequestration sites, and scientists previously thought that only water could make it expand. Caprocks spend thousands of years halting the escape of injected CO2. To learn how these rocks respond to CO2, the researchers studied the material under realistic sequestration conditions.
PNNL Scientist Receives Early Career Research Award
May 2012
A bioinformaticist from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will receive an Early Career Research Award from DOE to advance his research identifying proteins that could be used in biofuel production. PNNL's Sam Payne will receive a grant totaling $2.5 million over five years.
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Regional stakeholder input helps construct better models for climate change decisions May 2012 - The Copper Ion That Wasn't an Accident
Charged metal particle lets industrial catalyst add and remove electronsMay 2012 - Annotating Plague with Proteogenomics
Multifaceted strategies help refine annotations of three Yersinia strainsMay 2012 - Catalysis Team Edits, Contributes to Special Issue on Diesel Emission Control
May 2012 - Invisible Tropical Clouds
Scientists use new method to zero in on source of tropical cloudsApril 2012 - Human Skin Model Shows Signaling Pathway Effects from Low Dose Exposure
Model gives good representation of intact tissueApril 2012 - Ram Devanathan Wins Fulrath Award of the American Ceramic Society
April 2012 - Proteomics Identifies Targets of Ionizing Radiation in a Human Skin Model
Found unique phosphopeptides showing changes in response to doseApril 2012 - Catalysis Research Selected for Team Science
EMSL announces Team Science projects to accelerate discoveryApril 2012 - Bringing Innovative Science and Ideas to 2012 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting
April 2012 - Getting Your Catalyst What It Needs
New method creates highly reactive catalytic surface, packed with hydroxyl speciesApril 2012 - Study Dusts Sugar Coating Off Little-Known Regulation In Cells
O-GlcNAc regulatory system adds complexity in cell regulation, could eventually provide new drug targetsApril 2012 - Same Samples, Different Analytical Strategies, Complementary Inferences
Two approaches to further understanding of subsurface microbial communities published togetherApril 2012 - Genome-Scale Model of Cyanobacterium Developed
Cyanothece's complete metabolism describedApril 2012 - Tasting Carbon with WAFT'ed Light
New instrument analyzes tiny samples at low pressure and temperatureApril 2012 - Triple Play for Liquid Probing
Technical advance allows researchers to watch liquid surfaces interactApril 2012 - Gases Drawn Into Particles Stay There
SPLAT helps to elucidate formation and properties of complex organic particlesApril 2012 - New Metal Alloy Electrode Designed for Plus-Sized Ions
Tin, antimony, and carbon material increases sodium battery's capacity April 2012 - Shedding Light on Photosynthesis
Dynamic proteome analysis of Cyanothece 51142April 2012 - Katrina Hui Named Semi-Finalist in Intel Science Talent Search
April 2012 - Methane Mitigation Seminar for Russia's Oil and Gas Production
March 2012 - Nigel Browning Named as Wiley Research Fellow
March 2012 - Two Scientific Articles on Graphene-Based Sensors Prove Popular in the Research Community
March 2012 - Andrey Sushko Earns Second Place Honors at Intel's Science Talent Search
March 2012 - Taming Uncertainty in Climate Prediction
Using the uncertainty quantification method in precipitation modelingMarch 2012 - Materials Research Featured on President's Budget Document
March 2012 - Silicon-carbon Electrodes Snap, Swell, Don't Pop
Nanocomposite electrodes being charged with electricity reveal performance advantages that could lead to longer-lasting, cheaper vehicle batteriesMarch 2012 - Pinpointing Plutonium Proclivities
New study queries interactions of metal-reducing bacteria with plutonium oxideMarch 2012