Scientists trying to understand the paths crystals take as they form have been able to influence that path, revealing insights that could lead to better control of drug development, energy technologies. And food.

A new capability at PNNL will be able to replicate how nations process plutonium. Researchers will process small amounts of plutonium which they will analyze, using nuclear forensics techniques, to discover signatures.

When water comes in for a landing on the common catalyst titanium oxide, it splits into hydroxyls just under half the time. Water's oxygen and hydrogen atoms shift back and forth between existing as water or hydroxyls, and water has the sli

Bo Peng, a Linus Pauling Fellow and molecular sciences researcher at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, was recognized at the Sanibel Symposium with the Löwdin Postdoctoral Associate Award.

Before there is a mineral, there is a nucleation event.

International and national news outlets are quoting PNNL's Ram Devanathan as an expert in membrane separation as they report on a new nano-sieve.

Nanoparticles morph through life, sprouting changes in the way they react chemically.

Yong Wang, a catalysis researcher at PNNL and WSU, was selected to receive the annual fellow award given by the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry division of the American Chemical Society.

ACS Geochemistry Division honors rock researcher

Erin Baker was honored today with the 'Rising Star' award at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco.

Pointing the finger at chemical criminals: Several scientists from PNNL and other institutions will discuss new methods and approaches at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in San Francisco April 2-6.

At next week's American Chemical Society meeting, experts spanning a wide range of disciplines will get together to toss around ideas on technologies to capture the carbon dioxide.

At the center of many research teams are women — scientists and engineers who chase mystery and replace it with discoveries.

PNNL's Reid Peterson has been elected to the rank of fellow of AIChE

A record-breaking vanadium flow battery that's based on PNNL chemistry has been installed at a power substation near Everett, Wash.

Greater WSU grad student presence at PNNL

New research shows adding a pinch of chemical additive to a lithium-metal battery's electrolyte helps make rechargeable batteries that are stable, charge quickly, and go longer in between charges.

PNNL's Ruby Leung and Johannes Lercher elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

Vitamin B12 wields great power, shaping microbial communities that affect energy and food production and many other processes.

Using a natural catalyst from bacteria for inspiration, researchers have now reported the fastest synthetic catalysts to date for hydrogen production-- producing 45 million hydrogen molecules per second.