Direct visualization of metal atoms during shear deformation has broad applications from battery design to vehicle lightweighting.

PNNL’s Ján Drgoňa and Draguna Vrabie are part of an international team that authored a most-cited paper on Model Predictive Control, an approach for improving operations, energy efficiency, and comfort in buildings.

A PNNL research team has been recognized by the American Chemical Society with its Award for Affordable Green Chemistry.

Research organizations work toward compelling market-ready solutions for building operations.

From landfills to fill-ups: novel catalysts may make plastic upcycling cleaner and more cost-effective.

The American Chemical Society Richland Section has been recognized by its national organization with the Best Overall Section Minority Affairs award for 2022.

Teams at PNNL welcomed their first two interns this summer from the competition-based program.

PNNL’s Reid Hart and Bing Liu have earned individual Champions of Energy Efficiency in Buildings awards from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.

Plastic upcycling efficiently converts plastics to valuable commodity chemicals while using less of the precious metal ruthenium. The method could recycle waste plastic pollution into useful products, helping keep it out of landfills.

A process developed at PNNL that converts biomass and waste into a chemical intermediate or into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel is available for commercial licensing.

As wildfires grow increasingly severe, PNNL researchers are working to slow their spread and mitigate their harmful effects.

PNNL Senior Scientist Jamie Holladay has been named a Distinguished Inventor of Battelle.

PNNL chief research engineer Rob Dagle has been named 2021 PNNL Inventor of the Year.

A paper from PNNL and Southern California Edison describing new methodologies for assessing electric vehicle impacts to the grid was selected as a best paper by IEEE.

PNNL researchers studying materials to enable safe, cost-effective hydrogen storage.

A new extrusion process eliminates pre-heating to provide significant energy savings during production of extruded aluminum alloys.

A new longer-lasting sodium-ion battery design is much more durable and reliable in lab tests. After 300 charging cycles, it retained 90 percent of its charging capacity.

Energy storage expert Ji-Guang (Jason) Zhang was honored by DOE with a Distinguished Achievement Award.

The first-ever simulation of aluminum conductivity offers a recipe for an inexpensive, lightweight alternative to copper.

The Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines initiative recently outlined six years of research in a findings and impact report.