APRIL 28, 2023 Research Highlight Understanding How Radiation Affects Boehmite Nanoplatelet Aggregation Irradiated boehmite nanoplatelets form smaller aggregates and have a rougher surface than non-irradiated platelets. ( Read More )
APRIL 27, 2023 Research Highlight How Water Reduces the Reactivity of Surface Intermediates in Carboxylic Acid Ketonization on Titanium Dioxide Water affects the intermediates present on the surface of a metal oxide catalyst during ketonization. ( Read More )
APRIL 20, 2023 Article New Battery Consortium to Improve Lithium-Ion Batteries Led by PNNL, the new Cathode-Electrolyte Interphase Consortium has been launched, involving 10 national laboratories and 10 universities. ( Read More )
APRIL 13, 2023 Article The Nature of the Chemical Bond Advances in understanding the nature of the chemical bond are featured in this special issue of The Journal of Chemical Physics. ( Read More )
APRIL 10, 2023 Research Highlight Wildfire Burn Severity Drives Short-Term Impacts on Water Chemistry Variations in burn severity are a key control on the chemical constituents of dissolved organic matter delivered to streams within a single burn perimeter. ( Read More )
MARCH 24, 2023 Research Highlight The Primary Gas Phase Hydration Shell of Hydroxide A combined experimental and computational approach showed that the hydration shell of hydroxide has a four-coordinate binding. ( Read More )
MARCH 10, 2023 Article Tools to Test and Optimize Carbon Capture Systems Newly developed models can help rapidly optimize systems to meet the need for rapidly deployable commercial carbon capture. ( Read More )
MARCH 10, 2023 Research Highlight Novel 2D Biomimetic Membranes for Molecular Separations Combining peptoids and carbon nanotube porins creates a new class of stable membranes with potential applications in separations science. ( Read More )
MARCH 6, 2023 Research Highlight Electron Localization in Substrates Directs the Growth Path of a Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Framework A combined experimental and modeling study shows that electronic interactions direct how a metal-organic framework grows. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 28, 2023 Research Highlight Identifying What Controls Reactivity in Concentrated Alkaline Aluminate Solutions Hydrogen bonding and proton transfer control the identity and reactivity of molecules in highly concentrated and alkaline aluminate solutions. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 23, 2023 Research Highlight Low-Temperature Upcycling of Polyolefins into Liquid Alkanes A new system can convert common plastics into valuable fuel molecules. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 21, 2023 Research Highlight Identifying the Maximum Impact of Ionic Strength on Reaction Rates within Zeolite Pores Within zeolite pores, rates of alcohol dehydration increase with ionic strength until reaching a maximum and then decreasing. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 7, 2023 Research Highlight Exploring Assembly and Metal-Ligand Bonding in Plutonium Hybrid Materials Researchers combined crystallographic data and computational studies to investigate plutonium-ligand bonding within a hybrid material construct. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 2, 2023 Research Highlight Open Circuit Potential Plays a Critical Role in Controlling the Hydrogenolysis of Benzyl Alcohol in Water In a water-containing system, the open circuit potential stabilizes positively charged species and lowers the energy barrier of the reaction. ( Read More )
JANUARY 18, 2023 Article The University of Guam and PNNL Collaborate to Generate Clean Energy from the Sea Harnessing the sea for decarbonized energy is the focus of a new collaboration between PNNL and the University of Guam. ( Read More )
JANUARY 13, 2023 Research Highlight A New Approach to Simulating Strongly Correlated Systems with Quantum Computing A new approach broadens the reach of quantum computers to previously challenging systems. ( Read More )
JANUARY 13, 2023 Article PNNL Joins CONNECT to Educate Future National Security Leaders PNNL is the newest member of the CONsortium on Nuclear sECurity Technologies (CONNECT). ( Read More )
DECEMBER 12, 2022 Article Atomic Fortune-Telling: Forecasting the Evolution of Chemical Reactions Researchers developed a machine learning model that can analyze chemical reactions as they happen in an electron microscope. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 2, 2022 Research Highlight Structural Insights into How Ions in Basic Solutions Transform Researchers identified a new intermediate phase that forms during the crystallization of hydrated aluminum-containing salts. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 2, 2022 Article Developing Collaborations through EPSCoR PNNL researchers are moving energy research forward through collaborative projects with universities across the United States. ( Read More )