Darío Gil, DOE's Undersecretary for Science, makes his inaugural visit to PNNL.

Summarizing the state of designed protein hybrid materials, researchers celebrate both the 50th anniversary of the MRS Bulletin and the 2025 Fred Kavli Distinguished Lecturers in Materials Science, Jim De Yoreo and David Baker.

Researchers use multiomics to confirm role of lipid synthesis during infection, leading to model of how to restrict virus replication.

Specially designed histidine-containing peptoids mimic carbonic anhydrase to accelerate calcite step growth.

An approach combining multiple theories increases the accuracy of quantum-based simulations without increasing computational demands.

Capturing protein structural changes in host cells exposes vulnerabilities exploited by viruses to hijack cellular machinery.

Imaging ice microstructures formed by water freezing with atomic resolution for the first time.

Tailored assemblies mimic natural enzyme activity with significantly higher stability.

In high-entropy oxides, chromium tends to segregate during growth due to oxidation-induced migration of smaller, high-valence cations.

Researchers developed a way to precisely control dopant structures and locations in carbon-based materials.

Continued studies will deepen scientists’ understanding of virus-host interactions at the molecular level and also pave the way for developing better drugs to fight emerging viruses.

Researchers developed a pathway for the solution synthesis of core–crown heterostructures with controlled electronic properties.

Neural networks techniques enable the efficient capture of electron correlation effects in reduced-dimensionality spaces.

Under an optical field, nanoparticle attachment in a model system heavily depends on surface roughness.

In the search for rare physics events, extremely pure materials are essential. A partnership between PNNL and Ultramet has led to tungsten with low contamination from other elements.

A new study led by PNNL researcher TC Chakraborty provides some answers about how irrigated agricultural land near cities affects urban heat stress.

Developing a new scheme to more efficiently solve quantum chemistry problems.

Chromium cations better adapt to changes in oxygen stoichiometry than iron cations.

CACTUS provides AI-powered cheminformatics for autonomous science.

Using interfacial charge transfer to control cation charges in oxide superlattices offers insights for designing functional heterostructures.