By decreasing the amount of precious metal in a catalyst, the system increased its efficiency and selectivity for breaking apart plastics.

The Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines initiative recently outlined six years of research in a findings and impact report.

Tuning the environment and platinum-group metal allows researchers to control which bonds the catalyst breaks using hydrogen.

The size of the alkali metal within the material influences the crystallization pathway.

Researchers in the IDREAM Energy Frontier Research Center unearth new defects during gibbsite crystallization using a multi-instrument approach.

Newly determined energy transfer mechanisms help identify how water releases from and damages irradiated interfaces.

Developing an understanding of how water breaks apart after radiation exposure.

IDREAM researchers use fast force mapping to provide insights into the boehmite interfacial solution structure.

IDREAM researchers assess the potential of photon-in/photon-out XFEL techniques to explore early time reaction steps and ultimately improve nuclear waste processing strategies.

A comprehensive understanding of the electronic structure of uranyl ions provides insight into the chemistry of nuclear waste and uranium separation technologies.

PNNL researchers worked to decouple the effects that solvents impose on reactions catalyzed in the liquid phase.

New PNNL research provides the first direct evidence that amorphous intermediates influence subsequent crystallization outcomes using in situ imaging.

New research finds that reaction rates for cyclic alcohol dehydration increase as ionic strength increases, independent of reaction mechanism.

IDREAM study characterizes chemical species and mechanisms that control aluminum salt and mineral crystallization for nuclear waste retrieval, processing.

Local ionic strength within zeolite pores tailors the chemical potential of reacting molecules, leading to high cyclohexanol dehydration activity

Tetranuclear molybdenum sulfide clusters encaged in zeolites mimic the FeMo-cofactor of nitrogenase, offering a new opportunity for improving industrial hydrotreatment processes.

New research uncovers the mechanism of carbon dioxide reduction by metal-O-Fe bonds of single-metal atoms and metal nanoparticles supported by oxidic surfaces.

Researchers gained insight into the interfacial radiation chemistry of radioactive waste sludge through studies of surface functional groups on model aluminum-containing solids

IDREAM researchers have discovered the chemical processes that underpin gibbsite solubility in sodium hydroxide, including sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite interactions.

Characterizing the electron redistribution that allows the binding of molecular nitrogen to the catalytic core of nitrogenase.