APRIL 8, 2022 Research Highlight Discovering New Kinds of Crystal Defects Researchers in the IDREAM Energy Frontier Research Center unearth new defects during gibbsite crystallization using a multi-instrument approach. ( Read More )
APRIL 4, 2022 Research Highlight Scalable Simulation of Quantum Circuits Quantum simulators help navigate noise on GPU-based HPC systems. ( Read More )
APRIL 1, 2022 Research Highlight Revealing the Distribution of Helium Cavities in a Toughened Tungsten Composite Different sized helium cavities that form after ion irradiation are unevenly distributed in a ductile-phase toughened tungsten composite. ( Read More )
MARCH 29, 2022 Research Highlight The Gut Microbiome Modifies Host Response to Environmental Exposures Study highlights microbiome’s role in regulating xenobiotic metabolism. ( Read More )
MARCH 24, 2022 Research Highlight Benchmarking the Community Land Model Over the Contiguous United States Researchers used ground-based and remote-sensed datasets to comprehensively validate a tool for simulating land surface processes. ( Read More )
MARCH 24, 2022 Research Highlight Smaller-Scale Models Better Represent Pouring Rain over the Amazon State-of-the-art numerical models can better simulate the convective clouds that produce most of the Amazon’s wet season rainfall. ( Read More )
MARCH 23, 2022 Research Highlight Understanding the Interfacial Compatibility Between a Potential CO2 Separation Membrane and Capture Solvents Surface characterization allows researchers to explore the compatibility between different solvent-membrane combinations. ( Read More )
MARCH 23, 2022 Research Highlight Freeze-Thaw Cycles Alter Soil Structure in Thawing Permafrost Soil pores are reorganized when newly thawed permafrost soils experience freeze-thaw cycling. ( Read More )
MARCH 23, 2022 Research Highlight A New Methodology for Generating Building Temperature Setpoint Schedules New work developed a methodology to generate building temperature setpoint schedules for use by modelers in large-scale building energy simulations. ( Read More )
MARCH 21, 2022 Research Highlight In-Plant Biochemistry Governs High Altitude Fine Particles over the Amazon Combining aircraft measurements and regional modeling allowed researchers to identify the role of in-plant biochemistry in secondary organic aerosol formation. ( Read More )
MARCH 21, 2022 Research Highlight Eclipse VOLTTRON™ Energizes Innovations The PNNL-developed Eclipse VOLTTRON™ software platform continues to support new applications in energy efficiency and clean energy. ( Read More )
MARCH 18, 2022 Research Highlight A High-Performance Miniature Ion Mobility Spectrometer Development of a one-meter path length miniature ion mobility spectrometer based on multilevel structures for lossless ion manipulations. ( Read More )
MARCH 16, 2022 Research Highlight New Data-Driven Algorithm Improves Reservoir Simulations for National-Scale Hydrology Storage Targets and Release Function Inference Tool uses data to infer the operating policies of large reservoirs on a national scale. ( Read More )
MARCH 14, 2022 Research Highlight Ocean Engineering for a Sustainable Future with Emma Cotter Ocean engineer Emma Cotter supports the Triton Initiative's environmental monitoring projects. ( Read More )
MARCH 8, 2022 Research Highlight Increasing the Accuracy of Quantum Algorithms PNNL researchers utilized the Peeters-Devreese-Soldatov formulation to improve the accuracy of calculations for quantum chemistry. ( Read More )
MARCH 7, 2022 Research Highlight Enhancing Electrochemical Separations with Hydrophobic Ionic Liquid Clusters Using size-tunable ionic liquid clusters make electrochemical separations more efficient. ( Read More )
MARCH 7, 2022 Research Highlight Representing River Networks in an Unstructured Mesh Framework A new hexagonal framework helps more accurately model watersheds at a range of scales. ( Read More )
MARCH 4, 2022 Research Highlight Novel Energy Exchange Mechanisms Lead to Water Ionization and Desorption from Nanoparticle Interfaces Newly determined energy transfer mechanisms help identify how water releases from and damages irradiated interfaces. ( Read More )
MARCH 2, 2022 Research Highlight Particle Acidity and Diffusion Limitations Govern Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Using unique laboratory single-particle measurements to understand some of the most uncertain processes affecting secondary organic aerosol formation. ( Read More )
MARCH 2, 2022 Research Highlight Predicting How Soil Microbes Breathe: Diffusion Limitations Matter Study reveals importance of accounting for micrometer scale distribution of substrates to predict carbon emissions from soil. ( Read More )