After isolating copper hydride monomers, researchers identified the mechanistic details of catalyst aggregation and cluster formation.

Scientists have tapped AI and powerful computing to speed up how quickly officials are able to learn important details about nuclear events.

Trace amounts of iron and chromium can incorporate into gibbsite, affecting how the mineral dissolves.

Quantum computing promises leaps in chemistry and materials science, and PNNL is preparing to realize its potential with a collaborative approach.

PNNL's E-COMP initiative is helping unleash American energy innovation with advanced theories, models, and software tools to better operate power systems that rely heavily on high-speed power electronic control.

Properly identifying iodoplumbate species that are present and stable in a perovskite precursor solution is vital. New research offers insight into reactivity and dynamical processes in solution and the chemical properties of precursors.

di Vacri’s expertise in low-background detection earned her a place on the Executive Board of the Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors.

A new time-dependent wavefunction formulation for the cumulant Green’s functions can produce more accurate simulations.

Scientists are reviewing the current science of the mechanism and structural dynamics of methyl coenzyme-M reductase, an enzyme involved in biological methane conversion.

A team combined experiments and theory to predict the collective properties of electrolyte solutions.

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

Under an optical field, nanoparticle attachment in a model system heavily depends on surface roughness.

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.

Directionally biased electrostatic interactions are the key to significantly tuning the reduction potential of iron/sulfur clusters.

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

Increasing concentrations of ions slows the rate of particle aggregation in boehmite suspensions.

Chemist Wendy Shaw, a nationally recognized scientific leader, has been chosen to serve as the associate laboratory director for PNNL's Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate.

Researchers have created an algorithm that slashes the calculations necessary to prepare and customize data for quantum computing.

Nine national laboratories, including PNNL, bring together over 1,000 scientists for a day to use AI to accelerate scientific discovery.

PNNL Program Development Office Director Karl Mueller explains how the TEC4 project seeks to make advanced chemical computations accessible to all.