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

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

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

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.

A new deep learning approach allows researchers to rapidly analyze three-dimensional representations of multi-component catalysts.

Where molybdenum dopants sit within catalytic material affects catalysis at a mechanistic level.

Using electrocatalysis offers a different path for reactions involving polar groups.

Research organizations work toward compelling market-ready solutions for building operations.

Researchers isolated a molecular copper hydride monomer for the first time.

A process developed at PNNL that converts biomass and waste into a chemical intermediate or into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel is available for commercial licensing.

A new simple and scalable synthesis produces nanoparticle assemblies that can perform catalytic hydrogen sensing at room temperature for the first time.

A study that combined experiments and theory showed how model enzymes control challenging reactions involving highly reactive carbocations.

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.

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

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

Modeling study suggests vigorous ventilation can cause spike in viral concentrations