MAY 23, 2025 Research Highlight Unleashing Quantum Computing for Quantum Chemistry from Constrained Optimization Developing a new scheme to more efficiently solve quantum chemistry problems. ( Read More )
MAY 20, 2025 Research Highlight Enabling Urban Mining of Critical Minerals from Domestic Electronic Waste A PNNL team has developed an energy- and chemical-efficient method of separating valuable critical minerals from dissolved solutions of rare earth element magnets. ( Read More )
MAY 20, 2025 Research Highlight Ion Behavior Near Interfaces Affects Aggregation Increasing concentrations of ions slows the rate of particle aggregation in boehmite suspensions. ( Read More )
MAY 8, 2025 Research Highlight Selectively Recovering Manganese from Surface Accessible Nodules Surface manganese mining from nodules in South Dakota is now possible with a new scalable selective precipitation process. ( Read More )
JANUARY 17, 2025 Article Democratizing Computational Chemistry with the Cloud PNNL Program Development Office Director Karl Mueller explains how the TEC4 project seeks to make advanced chemical computations accessible to all. ( Read More )
JANUARY 14, 2025 Research Highlight Porting Scalable Computational Chemistry to Cloud Computing Electronic structure codes in a cloud environment can enable efficient computational chemistry simulations. ( Read More )
JANUARY 10, 2025 Research Highlight Mineral Surfaces Stabilize Organic Matter through Patchy Multilayer Coatings Molecular simulations highlight the key interactions between mineral surfaces and organic matter that lead to carbon stabilization in soils. ( Read More )
JANUARY 10, 2025 Article New AI Agent Connects Computer Reasoning with Chemistry CACTUS provides AI-powered cheminformatics for autonomous science. ( Read More )
JANUARY 9, 2025 Research Highlight Cobalt Slows the Low-Water Carbonation of Silicate Mineral Ores Cobalt substitution for magnesium in a model mafic mineral dramatically slows reaction with carbon dioxide to form a cobalt-doped carbonate. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 12, 2024 Research Highlight Molecular-Level Understanding of How Electrolytes Affect Boehmite Particle Aggregation New IDREAM research explores the effects of electrolyte species on boehmite nanoparticle aggregation in legacy wastes. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 10, 2024 Research Highlight Polaritonic Chemistry with the Density Matrix Renormalization Group Method Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers developed a new theoretical method for studying highly correlated systems. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 5, 2024 Research Highlight A Streamlined Process to Extract Magnesium from Seawater Precipitation with sodium hydroxide in a flow-gel device enables the rapid extraction of magnesium from seawater in a new scalable process. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 19, 2024 Article Paving the Way for Fusion Commercialization PNNL researchers co-organized a workshop on fusion commercialization with partners from industry and academia ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 7, 2024 Article Longtime PNNL Collaborator Received Nobel Prize University of Washington Professor David Baker won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 10, 2024 Article New Funding for Fusion Materials Projects PNNL researchers will pursue both fundamental and applied projects with this support from the Department of Energy ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024 Research Highlight Observing the Mechanism of Protonation Site Switching in Hydrated Nicotine Proton shuffling in hydrated nicotine at low temperatures occurs via a Grotthuss mechanism, identified through experimental and computational work. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 Research Highlight An Alternate Approach to Fabricating Strengthened Steel Combining cold spray deposition and friction stir processing for a more efficient route to oxide dispersion strengthened steel. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 Research Highlight Studying Lithium Silicates to Fuel Fusion Reactions PNNL researchers studied the microstructure of lithium silicates under emulated fusion conditions. ( Read More )
AUGUST 22, 2024 Article Novel Computing Tool Learns the Language of Chemistry ChemReasoner combines decades of chemistry knowledge with large language models to propose strategies for effective new catalysts. ( Read More )
AUGUST 13, 2024 Research Highlight Simulations Identify How Critical Elements Distribute in Abundant Mineral Ores The atomic-level distribution of nickel and cobalt in forsterite depends on the concentration of the different elements. ( Read More )