The Northwest Connected Communities Summit brought together representatives of five Department of Energy-funded Connected Communities Projects to share ideas and discuss potential collaboration opportunities.

Advances in understanding the nature of the chemical bond are featured in this special issue of The Journal of Chemical Physics.

Xantheas was one of four professors in 2021/2022 to be selected by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities for this award.

A combined experimental and computational approach showed that the hydration shell of hydroxide has a four-coordinate binding.

PNNL’s Karma Sawyer has been named a Distinguished Gilbreth Speaker by the National Academy of Engineering.

Staff at PNNL recently completed a report highlighting commercial products enabled through projects funded by the Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office.

The Simple Building Calculator, developed at PNNL, meets a need for a quick, interactive, and economic method to evaluate energy use—and potential savings from efficiency measures—in simple commercial buildings.

The Department of Energy has issued updated energy conservation standards for manufactured homes. The effort to establish the standards, supported by PNNL, is expected to result in a range of benefits for the manufactured housing sector.

Research organizations work toward compelling market-ready solutions for building operations.

New research makes molecular-level calculations of water faster and easier.

Teams at PNNL welcomed their first two interns this summer from the competition-based program.

A PNNL researcher offers tips on protecting you and your family from harmful wildfire smoke when indoors.

New research shows that compressing quantum circuits decreases noise and increases the accuracy of quantum calculations.

PNNL’s Reid Hart and Bing Liu have earned individual Champions of Energy Efficiency in Buildings awards from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.

Tiffany Kaspar’s work has advanced the discovery and understanding of oxide materials, helping develop electronics, quantum computing, and energy production. She strives to communicate her science to the public.

PNNL researchers developed a hybrid quantum-classical approach for coupled-cluster Green’s function theory that maintains accuracy while cutting computational costs.

Xantheas awarded a visiting fellowship from the International Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion in Germany.

Structural changes in heavy water occur at different temperatures than in standard water.

The size of the alkali metal within the material influences the crystallization pathway.

A new control system shows promise in making millions of homes contributors to improved power grid operations, reaping cost and environmental benefits.