JANUARY 10, 2025 Research Highlight Mineral Surfaces Stabilize Organic Matter through Patchy Multilayer Coatings Molecular simulations highlight the key interactions between mineral surfaces and organic matter that lead to carbon stabilization in soils. ( Read More )
JANUARY 10, 2025 Article New AI Agent Connects Computer Reasoning with Chemistry CACTUS provides AI-powered cheminformatics for autonomous science. ( 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 )
DECEMBER 10, 2024 Research Highlight Polaritonic Chemistry with the Density Matrix Renormalization Group Method Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers developed a new theoretical method for studying highly correlated systems. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 7, 2024 Article Longtime PNNL Collaborator Received Nobel Prize University of Washington Professor David Baker won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 28, 2024 Feature Collaboration Speeds Complex Chemical Modeling Calculating quantum chemistry quickly allows scientists to refine their understanding of complex chemical systems. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 21, 2024 News Release Cloud Computing Captures Chemistry Code The speed and agility of cloud computing opens doors to completing advanced computational chemistry workflows in days instead of months. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 16, 2024 Staff Accomplishment Exploring Energy Efficiency through Analog Computing Researchers discussed this topic at the 2024 Analog Computing for Science Workshop co-led by Antonino Tumeo. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024 Research Highlight Observing the Mechanism of Protonation Site Switching in Hydrated Nicotine Proton shuffling in hydrated nicotine at low temperatures occurs via a Grotthuss mechanism, identified through experimental and computational work. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024 Article New Report Provides Update on Environmental Effects of Marine Renewable Energy The 2024 State of the Science Report on environmental effects of marine renewable energy research has been released. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 Feature Three PNNL Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards Three PNNL researchers will receive five continuous years of funding for projects through highly competitive DOE Early Career Research Program awards. ( Read More )
AUGUST 22, 2024 Article Novel Computing Tool Learns the Language of Chemistry ChemReasoner combines decades of chemistry knowledge with large language models to propose strategies for effective new catalysts. ( Read More )
AUGUST 13, 2024 Research Highlight Simulations Identify How Critical Elements Distribute in Abundant Mineral Ores The atomic-level distribution of nickel and cobalt in forsterite depends on the concentration of the different elements. ( Read More )
JULY 23, 2024 News Release PNNL Scientists Tap Nation’s Fastest Computers to Explore Critical Science Questions Researchers will explore climate, pathogens and energy-efficient microelectronics using 3 million node hours on the nation’s supercomputers. ( Read More )
JUNE 3, 2024 Research Highlight Developing New Computational Methods for Atomic-to-Mesoscale Chemistry A new study demonstrates a hybrid model that can simulate part of a system at the molecular scale and other parts at larger scales in a computationally efficient manner, providing greater simulation flexibility. ( Read More )
MAY 24, 2024 Director's Column PNNL Researchers Studying Marine-Based Global Warming Solutions Researchers are leveraging the ocean’s natural processes to advance approaches to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in the ocean. ( Read More )
MAY 16, 2024 Staff Accomplishment Xiaosong Li Receives American Chemical Society Award for Theoretical Physical Chemistry The 2024 Jack Simons Award honor recognizes Li for his expertise in integrating chemistry with computing for fundamental science research. ( Read More )
MAY 9, 2024 Feature Designer Peptoids Mimic Nature’s Helices PNNL researchers learn to control peptoid “handedness,” one key to precision drug delivery and diagnostics. ( Read More )
APRIL 25, 2024 Article Co-Designing the Future of Computational Chemistry New research informs the development of foundational models for computational chemistry through hardware-software co-design. ( Read More )
APRIL 3, 2024 Feature Computational Chemistry Needs To Be Sustainable, Too As new paradigms in advanced computing take shape, computational chemistry researchers are finding new ways to solve challenging chemistry problems. ( Read More )