Controlling the nanostructure of silk fibroin—a protein found in silk—is a key step toward designing and fabricating electronics that leverage the material’s promising mechanical, optical and biocompatible properties.

PNNL’s patented Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion (ShAPE™) technique is an advanced manufacturing technology that enables better-performing materials and components while offering opportunities to reduce costs and energy consumption.

From landfills to fill-ups: novel catalysts may make plastic upcycling cleaner and more cost-effective.

COMPASS points to understanding nature’s transition zones—areas that can be dry land at times and under water at others.

PNNL researchers deploying and testing novel building technologies and energy-management approaches.

Understanding the Earth as a complex, dynamic system includes investigating what happens on, above and below its surface.

Imagine a hollow tube thousands of times smaller than a human hair. Now envision filthy water flowing through an array of such tubes, each designed to capture contaminants on the inside, with clean water emerging at the other end.