By mimicking nature, scientists make a breakthrough in breaking down wood.

Hydropower generation estimated using water proxy data leads to a revision of the nation’s historical seasonal hydropower output.

PNNL researchers teamed up with marine energy developers to test a new wave energy conversion device through the TEAMER program.

Water affects the intermediates present on the surface of a metal oxide catalyst during ketonization.

DOE announced a new project, led by PNNL and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, to expand wind energy transmission off the nation’s West Coast.

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

A PNNL innovation uses steam to recover heat from the high-temperature reactor effluent in the HTL process, substantially reducing the propensity for fouling and potentially reducing costs.

PNNL’s Katie Arkema was selected to be on NASEM committee focused on public health and conservation.

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

PNNL researchers discovered a faster, more economical method to verify the amount of biofuel in mixtures of bio and fossil fuel.

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.

PNNL Earth scientist Nick Ward has been recognized as a 2022 fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.

The Building and Environment journal named Drgoňa’s co-authored work one of 2022’s best papers.

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.

A research buoy managed by PNNL has been deployed in Hawai’ian waters, collecting oceanographic and meteorological measurements off the coast of O’ahu.

Lili Yao named associated editor at the Journal of Hydrology, a leading journal in the field of hydrological sciences.

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.