Examining the vast scientific literature about the urban impact on weather and climate enabled researchers to synthesize current understanding and to inform future work.

Morris Bullock received an award and PNNL staff organized symposia and presented exciting research.

Researchers in the IDREAM Energy Frontier Research Center unearth new defects during gibbsite crystallization using a multi-instrument approach.

PNNL researchers have uncovered a plant-derived process that leads to the formation of aerosol particles over the Amazon rainforest and potentially other forested parts of the world. 

Materials scientist Arun Devaraj is committed to improving the quality and performance of metals with a big assist from atom probe tomography.

PNNL bioenergy expert Karthikeyan Ramasamy was a co-guest editor in an American Chemical Society Energy & Fuels virtual special issue on advances in biomass and wastes thermochemical processing.

Quantum simulators help navigate noise on GPU-based HPC systems.

Different sized helium cavities that form after ion irradiation are unevenly distributed in a ductile-phase toughened tungsten composite.

A bioinspired molecule can direct gold atoms to form perfect five-pointed nanoscale stars. The feat is the product of a collaborative team from PNNL and the University of Washington.

A paper published last year by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory was featured in the 2021 Editor’s Choice collection for the Cell Reports Physical Science journal.

Study highlights microbiome’s role in regulating xenobiotic metabolism.

State-of-the-art numerical models can better simulate the convective clouds that produce most of the Amazon’s wet season rainfall.

Researchers used ground-based and remote-sensed datasets to comprehensively validate a tool for simulating land surface processes.

Tim Johnson has been selected for an open-ended term as associate editor of the Groundwater journal.

Surface characterization allows researchers to explore the compatibility between different solvent-membrane combinations.

Soil pores are reorganized when newly thawed permafrost soils experience freeze-thaw cycling.

New work developed a methodology to generate building temperature setpoint schedules for use by modelers in large-scale building energy simulations.

COVID-19 changed when and where we use electricity. Researchers showed that commonly available total demand data masked the actual changes.

Combining aircraft measurements and regional modeling allowed researchers to identify the role of in-plant biochemistry in secondary organic aerosol formation.

Recognizing how innovation and clean technologies at the very edge of the grid can work together to transition the electricity system, PNNL takes a multidisciplinary approach to advancing and integrating renewable energy solutions.