Waste Management Symposia ‘Paper of Note’ and ‘Superior Paper’ awards recognize PNNL contributions to advancing radioactive waste and materials management.

Algae can collect and concentrate rare earth metals from seawater—an alternative to imported sources mined from the ground.

Research in the Energy Sciences Center explores how heat changes in chemical reactions, paving the way for more efficient fuels and processes.

Grant Johnson and Zdenek Dohnálek gave invited presentations and chaired sessions at the Cluster Meeting 2023.

Materials scientist Tiffany Kaspar was selected as a new fellow of AVS.

Varying environmental conditions enabled researchers to quantitatively control the dissolution of metal oxide nanorods.

Highly precise and controllable single-atom catalysts are affected by reaction conditions, which can alter the bonding around the atoms and the activity.

A PNNL team’s analysis of new-housing data concludes that single-family homes in lower-income counties are less energy-code-compliant than in higher-income counties, a finding that could shape strategies for enhanced code adoption.

Chemical Engineer Yong Wang explains the influence and opportunity for joint appointments. Wang maintains one of the longest joint appointment tenures at PNNL.

PNNL and University of Texas at El Paso leverage partnership and joint appointment program for a laboratory directed research and development project.

DOE gives Hydrogen Program Special Award to PNNL's Hydrogen Safety Panel at department's 2023 Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting.

PNNL researchers are helping to better define the need for grid energy storage in future clean energy scenarios, as well as working to improve technologies for storing renewable energy so it's available when and where it's needed.

PNNL receives a 2023 Federal Laboratory Consortium Far West Regional Award for a technological innovation that could help make the U.S. a producer of critical minerals used in electronics and energy production.

Researchers created the first open-source database of exotic materials eyed for use in quantum applications.

PNNL scientists investigate the promising properties of a common, Earth-abundant salt.

Team brought experience in nuclear waste forms and regulatory policies to the Federally Funded Research and Development Center’s report, which was reviewed by a National Academies’ committee.

PNNL’s ARENA test bed analyzes how electrical cables degrade in extreme environments and how nondestructive examination inspection technologies can detect and locate damage.

By mimicking nature, scientists make a breakthrough in breaking down wood.

Jingshan Du was named an associate editor of the journal Frontiers for Young Minds, which publishes articles about scientific research for young readers.

A project team at PNNL has been honored with the Project Management Achievement Award for 2022 from the Department of Energy.