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.

A suite of new modeling methods gives researchers better tools to predict molecular behavior inside cavities.

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

A recent article highlighted a PNNL report focused on post-quantum cryptography and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

Darío Gil, DOE's Undersecretary for Science, makes his inaugural visit to PNNL.

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.

An approach combining multiple theories increases the accuracy of quantum-based simulations without increasing computational demands.

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.

Neural networks techniques enable the efficient capture of electron correlation effects in reduced-dimensionality spaces.

In the search for rare physics events, extremely pure materials are essential. A partnership between PNNL and Ultramet has led to tungsten with low contamination from other elements.

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

Developing a new scheme to more efficiently solve quantum chemistry problems.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers developed a new theoretical method for studying highly correlated systems.

Nineteen PNNL-affiliated researchers have been named to Clarivate’s 2024 list of the world's most highly cited researchers.

In a recent publication in Nature Communications, a team of researchers presents a mathematical theory to address the challenge of barren plateaus in quantum machine learning.

A new approach validates quantum algorithms for low-energy nuclear physics applications