Amine functionalized graphene oxide yields laminates with an enhanced capacity to adsorb rare earth elements, improved water transport, and greater stability for effective membrane-based separation of critical minerals.

Replacing commercial acid with acidic waste enables researchers to improve nickel extraction efficiency, lower projected costs, and improve process economics.

Localized gradients in magnetic fields have long-range effects on the concentration of rare earth ions in solution, facilitating field-driven extraction of critical minerals.

Studying a series of rare earth element compounds revealed differences in their magnetic behavior that will be leveraged for separations.

This achievement earned DIMPLES a Best Paper award at the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing 2025.

Soil mineral preferentially incorporates rare earth elements based on size, with implications for critical mineral extraction.

Three research teams led by PNNL organizers achieve journal publications following the Mathematics Research Communities program.

Expanding the nation’s largest wind power plant time series database; helping grid planners navigate a resilient energy future with better data.

PNNL researchers have published their paper, “Introducing Molecular Hypernetworks for Discovery in Multidimensional Metabolomics Data,” in the Journal of Proteome Research.

Researchers at PNNL advised elementary and middle school student teams with their problem-solving research for the FIRST® LEGO® League robotics competitions.

Researchers created a methodology to design custom network topologies that improve the execution time for scientific applications.

PNNL signs memorandum of understanding with Oregon State University to support marine science and technology advancements.

Researchers unveil user-friendly software to keep complex projects on budget and on schedule.

PNNL researchers present challenges and opportunities for fusing graph neural networks with deep reinforcement learning.

PNNL researchers outline open problems in different scientific areas in the Journal of Combinatorics.

Methods review suggests ways to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to handle missing data when integrating two or more omics approaches.

PNNL researchers teamed up with marine energy developers to test a new wave energy conversion device through the TEAMER program.

To thwart pathogens, researchers in the epidemiology field of infectious disease (ID) prediction are continuously trying to forecast when, where, and how an ID event will occur.

PNNL joint appointee Auroop Ganguly uses data science to study the impacts of climate change.

A new web-based tool provides easy-to-understand progress metrics and other data about groundwater cleanup sites overseen by the DOE Office of Environmental Management.