MAY 23, 2025 Research Highlight Identifying the Active Species that Catalyze Low-Temperature Polyolefin Upcycling The low-temperature breakdown of polyolefins is driven by carbenium ions generated from chloroaluminate ionic liquids. ( Read More )
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 13, 2025 Research Highlight Crystal Morphology Controls Redox-Catalyzed Mass Transfer at Mineral–Water Interfaces The structure and exposed surfaces of hematite particles affect their growth and dissolution. ( 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 The Youth Are Our Future: Mentor Mariefel Olarte Invests in Interns PNNL chemical engineer Mariefel Olarte shares passion for mentoring students and the next-generation workforce. ( 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 26, 2024 Article PNNL Scientists Among Most Highly Cited Researchers Nineteen PNNL-affiliated researchers have been named to Clarivate’s 2024 list of the world's most highly cited researchers. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 15, 2024 Research Highlight Enhancing Single-Atom Catalyst Stability through Environmental Tailoring Tuning the environment of supported palladium atoms with hydrogen treatment enhances their catalytic activity. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 8, 2024 Research Highlight Identifying Relationships Between the Structure and Composition in Olivine A new database allows researchers to connect lattice parameters and composition in olivine. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 8, 2024 Research Highlight Determining Carbonation and Critical Mineral Recovery Potential in Mafic–Ultramafic Reservoirs New methodology can evaluate the potential for carbon storage and critical mineral recovery in undercharacterized geological settings. ( 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 )
