PNNL-developed catalytic process and catalyst to upgrade ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel wins American Chemical Society award.

PNNL’s Sameera Horawalavithana joins the journals IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

A new nano-optical bioimaging technology in development at PNNL enables researchers to watch climate-bellwether microbes exchange metabolites and other essential signals.

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.

Newly developed models can help rapidly optimize systems to meet the need for rapidly deployable commercial carbon capture.

Combining peptoids and carbon nanotube porins creates a new class of stable membranes with potential applications in separations science.

A combined experimental and modeling study shows that electronic interactions direct how a metal-organic framework grows.

Hydrogen bonding and proton transfer control the identity and reactivity of molecules in highly concentrated and alkaline aluminate solutions.

A new system can convert common plastics into valuable fuel molecules.

A new method to convert waste plastic to fuel and raw materials promises to help close the carbon cycle at mild temperature and with high yield.

Within zeolite pores, rates of alcohol dehydration increase with ionic strength until reaching a maximum and then decreasing.

Wendy Shaw begins an initial two-year term on the Advisory Board of Chemical Society Reviews.

Researchers combined crystallographic data and computational studies to investigate plutonium-ligand bonding within a hybrid material construct.

A new sodium battery technology shows promise for helping integrate renewable energy into the electric grid. The battery uses Earth-abundant raw materials such as aluminum and sodium.

In a water-containing system, the open circuit potential stabilizes positively charged species and lowers the energy barrier of the reaction.

Radha Kishan Motkuri lends skill and knowledge to co-lead special edition journal.

Johannes Lercher receives award from the North American Catalysis Society and the European Federation of Catalysis Societies.

PNNL scientists carve a path to profit from carbon capture by creating a system that efficiently captures CO2 and converts it into one of the world’s most widely used chemicals: methanol.

Harnessing the sea for decarbonized energy is the focus of a new collaboration between PNNL and the University of Guam.