MAY 30, 2025 Research Highlight Evaluating the Performance of Ductile Phase Toughened Tungsten Under the Simulated Fusion Environment Researchers at PNNL studied the effects of high temperatures and ionizing radiation on tungsten heavy alloys. ( Read More )
MAY 20, 2025 Research Highlight Ion Behavior Near Interfaces Affects Aggregation Increasing concentrations of ions slows the rate of particle aggregation in boehmite suspensions. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 12, 2024 Research Highlight Molecular-Level Understanding of How Electrolytes Affect Boehmite Particle Aggregation New IDREAM research explores the effects of electrolyte species on boehmite nanoparticle aggregation in legacy wastes. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024 Research Highlight Residual Impurities Affect the Stability of Hydrogen Atoms in Irradiated Gibbsite Hydrogen atoms released and trapped in irradiated gibbsite are destabilized by synthetic-precursor residuals. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 Research Highlight An Alternate Approach to Fabricating Strengthened Steel Combining cold spray deposition and friction stir processing for a more efficient route to oxide dispersion strengthened steel. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 News Release PNNL Takes Its Radiation Expertise to Space A launch from Cape Canaveral early today carried a PNNL experiment to space so scientists can learn more about radiation far above Earth. ( Read More )
AUGUST 29, 2024 News Release PNNL Technology Wins Three R&D 100 Awards Three PNNL technologies have been named 2024 R&D 100 Award winners. ( Read More )
JULY 12, 2024 Research Highlight Characterizing Tungsten-Based Materials in a Simulated Fusion Environment Researchers studied the boundary precipitation of tungsten heavy alloys in an extended high temperature irradiation environment ( Read More )
JUNE 28, 2024 Research Highlight Ionizing Radiation Stabilizes Gibbsite and Boehmite against Decomposition When exposed to a sufficiently high dose of ionizing radiation, gibbsite and boehmite are less susceptible to dehydration-induced breakdown. ( Read More )
JUNE 12, 2024 News Release Metal Alloys that Can Take the Heat Complex metal alloys enter a new era of predictive design for aerospace and other high-temperature applications. ( Read More )
APRIL 30, 2024 Research Highlight Attosecond X-rays Provide a Snapshot of Liquid Water IDREAM scientists capture electronic response to ionization. ( Read More )
APRIL 3, 2024 Research Highlight Cation Effects on Radicals from Nitrite IDREAM research shows the size of cations in highly concentrated nitrite solutions affects the production of radicals. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 15, 2024 News Release First-Ever Atomic Freeze-Frame of Liquid Water Scientists stop the motion of atoms to watch electrons move in liquid water. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 6, 2024 Research Highlight Surface Defects and pH Alter Gibbsite Dissolution Mechanisms Differences in water interactions lead to two gibbsite dissolution pathways modulated by solution acidity. ( Read More )
JANUARY 2, 2024 Research Highlight Directly Measuring X-Ray Enhanced Dissolution of Gibbsite Irradiation in a sodium hydroxide solution increases the dissolution rate and particle roughness of gibbsite compared to dry irradiation. ( Read More )
JULY 31, 2023 Research Highlight A New Efficient Reactive Force Field for Studying Aluminum Chemistry IDREAM research shows that keeping only the most important two- and three-body terms in reactive force fields can decrease computational cost by one order of magnitude, while preserving satisfactory accuracy. ( Read More )
APRIL 28, 2023 Research Highlight Understanding How Radiation Affects Boehmite Nanoplatelet Aggregation Irradiated boehmite nanoplatelets form smaller aggregates and have a rougher surface than non-irradiated platelets. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 2, 2022 Research Highlight Structural Insights into How Ions in Basic Solutions Transform Researchers identified a new intermediate phase that forms during the crystallization of hydrated aluminum-containing salts. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 17, 2022 News Release Tiniest Ever Ancient Seawater Pockets Revealed Ancient seawater pockets offer a new source of clues to climate change in vanished oceans and our own. ( Read More )
JUNE 14, 2022 Research Highlight Atomically Visualizing the Oxidation of Model Steel Combining multiple experimental techniques allowed researchers to observe the early stages of oxidation in a model material. ( Read More )