SEPTEMBER 25, 2025 Research Highlight Seeing Ice Crystals at the Atomic Level Imaging ice microstructures formed by water freezing with atomic resolution for the first time. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 23, 2025 Article DIMPLES Unlocks New Levels of Success in Influence Maximization This achievement earned DIMPLES a Best Paper award at the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing 2025. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025 Research Highlight Crystalline Peptoid Nanomaterials for Promoting Carbon Dioxide Dissolution and Precipitation Tailored assemblies mimic natural enzyme activity with significantly higher stability. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 15, 2025 Research Highlight When High Entropy Meets Epitaxy: Selective Oxidation and Chromium Segregation in Multicomponent Oxide Thin Films In high-entropy oxides, chromium tends to segregate during growth due to oxidation-induced migration of smaller, high-valence cations. ( Read More )
AUGUST 15, 2025 Article From Workshop to Publication: PNNL Researchers Advance Hypergraph Science Three research teams led by PNNL organizers achieve journal publications following the Mathematics Research Communities program. ( Read More )
AUGUST 15, 2025 Research Highlight Controlling Speciation of N-Doped Carbon Materials Researchers developed a way to precisely control dopant structures and locations in carbon-based materials. ( Read More )
JULY 14, 2025 Article Expanding Data Tools for a Resilient Grid Expanding the nation’s largest wind power plant time series database; helping grid planners navigate a resilient energy future with better data. ( Read More )
JUNE 6, 2025 Research Highlight A Generalized Strategy for Synthesizing 2-D Core–Crown Heterostructures Researchers developed a pathway for the solution synthesis of core–crown heterostructures with controlled electronic properties. ( Read More )
JUNE 2, 2025 Research Highlight Rougher Materials Get Along Better: Surface Roughness Influences Nanoparticle Attachment Under an optical field, nanoparticle attachment in a model system heavily depends on surface roughness. ( Read More )
JUNE 2, 2025 Article PNNL Paper Identifies New Path to Study Small Molecules PNNL researchers have published their paper, “Introducing Molecular Hypernetworks for Discovery in Multidimensional Metabolomics Data,” in the Journal of Proteome Research. ( Read More )
MAY 30, 2025 Research Highlight Evaluating the Performance of Ductile Phase Toughened Tungsten Under the Simulated Fusion Environment Researchers at PNNL studied the effects of high temperatures and ionizing radiation on tungsten heavy alloys. ( Read More )
JANUARY 14, 2025 Research Highlight Unraveling Doping Effects on the Structure and Electronic Properties of Perovskite Oxides Chromium cations better adapt to changes in oxygen stoichiometry than iron cations. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 18, 2024 Research Highlight Unraveling Charge Transfer at Oxide Heterointerfaces Using interfacial charge transfer to control cation charges in oxide superlattices offers insights for designing functional heterostructures. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 5, 2024 Research Highlight Crystallization of Calcium Carbonate Via a Dense Liquid Phase Calcium carbonate mineralization occurs through a multi-step process that begins with a dense liquid phase. ( 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 )
OCTOBER 30, 2024 Article Using Electron Microscopy to Understand Quantum Behavior A newly funded project will develop the fundamental understanding of phenomena that underpin material properties important for quantum applications. ( 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 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 )
JULY 23, 2024 Research Highlight Understanding the Forces that Regulate Crystallization by Particle Attachment Fully identifying what controls nanocrystal assembly requires incorporating non-traditional forces into models. ( Read More )