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.

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

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

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

A new flow battery design achieves long life and capacity for grid energy storage from renewable fuels.

Across the United States, organic carbon concentration imposes a primary control on river sediment respiration, with additional influences from organic matter chemistry.

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.

Joshua Adkins and Jamie Lo will lead PMedIC, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oregon Health & Science University’s joint research institute.

PNNL scientists are creating new ways to learn more about the vast sea of chemicals that haven't been identified—yet.

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

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.

Computational chemistry libraries from NWChem, NWChemEX, SPEC, and more are now available on Azure Quantum Elements.

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.

A team of researchers at PNNL designed and constructed an atmospheric chamber to simulate the fate of volatile and semivolatile radioisotopes.

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

Research from PNNL and the University of Washington demonstrates the extension of the MBE for periodic systems and its use to decompose the lattice energies of different ice polymorphs.