A combined experimental and computational approach showed that the hydration shell of hydroxide has a four-coordinate binding.

Department of Energy, Office of Science Director Asmeret Asefaw Berhe visited PNNL to learn about the Lab’s drive to conduct discovery science, commitment to science for an equitable future, and development of a diversified STEM workforce.

A multi-omics analysis provides the framework for gaining insights into the structure and function of microbial communities across multiple habitats on a planetary scale

Combining peptoids and carbon nanotube porins creates a new class of stable membranes with potential applications in separations science.

Newly developed models can help rapidly optimize systems to meet the need for rapidly deployable commercial carbon capture.

A combined experimental and modeling study shows that electronic interactions direct how a metal-organic framework grows.

Hydrogen bonding and proton transfer control the identity and reactivity of molecules in highly concentrated and alkaline aluminate solutions.

A new system can convert common plastics into valuable fuel molecules.

Within zeolite pores, rates of alcohol dehydration increase with ionic strength until reaching a maximum and then decreasing.

Report for the Oregon Public Utility Commission highlights innovations and best practices for resilience and utility planning could be helpful to other states as well.

Researchers combined crystallographic data and computational studies to investigate plutonium-ligand bonding within a hybrid material construct.

In a water-containing system, the open circuit potential stabilizes positively charged species and lowers the energy barrier of the reaction.

Harnessing the sea for decarbonized energy is the focus of a new collaboration between PNNL and the University of Guam.

Staff at PNNL recently completed a report highlighting commercial products enabled through projects funded by the Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office.

A new approach broadens the reach of quantum computers to previously challenging systems.

The Simple Building Calculator, developed at PNNL, meets a need for a quick, interactive, and economic method to evaluate energy use—and potential savings from efficiency measures—in simple commercial buildings.

Researchers developed a machine learning model that can analyze chemical reactions as they happen in an electron microscope.

PNNL researchers are moving energy research forward through collaborative projects with universities across the United States.

The nature of an iron oxide mineral and amount of light control electron movement from a light-absorbing molecule to the mineral, rather than the conditions of the surrounding aqueous environment.

Researchers identified a new intermediate phase that forms during the crystallization of hydrated aluminum-containing salts.