PNNL has chosen three proven leaders to serve in key roles guiding lab research and operations.

David Wunschel, a chemist and Laboratory Fellow, participated on a panel focused on how emerging technologies are transforming CBRN defense, detection, and response across military and government operations.

Integrating new functions into a genome-scale model enabled researchers to simulate and experimentally validate viral hijacking pathways.

PNNL chemist Sarah Saslow received the ACS Rising Star Award for her research supporting environmental cleanup, including work on legacy waste and subsurface contamination.

A suite of new modeling methods gives researchers better tools to predict molecular behavior inside cavities.

The underlying crystal structure of carbonate surfaces plays a key role in the formation of cobalt mineral structures on these surfaces.

PNNL has developed a next-generation electrical resistivity tomography system for DOE that uses E4D software and AI-enhanced modeling to produce real-time subsurface images that help guide environmental remediation decisions.

Margaret Cheung elected to premier scientific society.

Replacing commercial acid with acidic waste enables researchers to improve nickel extraction efficiency, lower projected costs, and improve process economics.

A microbial community expresses a phenotype of interest ~20 percent higher than the sum of each member species.

SenseAI and VaporID have been deployed by multiple industry partners.

Automated liquid handling, combined with data analysis and AI, optimizes microbiological growth conditions at PNNL.

Explore the past, present, and future of technological advancements made by scientists at PNNL.

PNNL set to create a practical path for near-term hybrid classical-quantum computers with NVIDIA accelerated computing.

An AI program called AtomAI helped PNNL researchers reveal key design principles for protein interfaces with mineral surfaces.

Autonomous science laboratories are taking shape quickly across the PNNL campus.

PNNL’s Center for the Remediation of Complex Sites inducted leaders Director David Peeler, Deputy Director Carolyn Pearce, Operations Director Christian Johnson, and advisors with multidisciplinary subsurface research expertise.

A recent article highlighted a PNNL report focused on post-quantum cryptography and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

Researchers discovered that a polymer additive promotes smooth, layer-by-layer deposition on metal electrodes by tuning interactions with the substrate.

Matteo Muratori, director of transportation and industry programs at PNNL, has been named to the 2026–2028 cohort of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s New Voices Program.