PNNL chemical engineer Mariefel Olarte shares passion for mentoring students and the next-generation workforce.

CACTUS provides AI-powered cheminformatics for autonomous science.

Federal environmental permitting process to be fast-tracked with AI-powered tools and cloud-supported data analysis.

Francesca Pierobon holds a joint appointment with UW and WSU to advance low-carbon technologies.

Three PNNL researchers will receive five continuous years of funding for projects through highly competitive DOE Early Career Research Program awards.

Recycling polyolefin materials is challenging. One waste management strategy is plastic upcycling. New work demonstrates a single-step upcycling route coupling cracking and alkylation, recycling carbon and keeping valuable resources active.

PNNL’s patented Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion (ShAPE™) technique is an advanced manufacturing technology that enables better-performing materials and components while offering opportunities to reduce costs and energy consumption.

New research sheds light on the biomolecular dangers of night shift work.

PNNL contributes to a nationwide research consortium investigating the molecular mechanisms triggered by endurance training.

Americans produce enough waste every year to replace up to a quarter of the country’s jet fuel with sustainable alternatives, new research shows.

A streamlined informatics workflow that automatically processes complex data and provides the locations of double bonds in lipids.

An initiative from Washington State University and Snohomish County leaders is aiming to make Paine Field a nexus for testing and improving sustainable aviation fuels made from non-petroleum materials.

Hi-C metagenomics-informed phage-host infection networks detected in soil pre- and post-drying.

Corinne Fuller has been named the new co-director of the Bioproducts Institute, a research collaboration between Washington State University and PNNL, as of July 2023.

Summer internship programs with partnering colleges provide pathways for students to explore careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Two researchers at PNNL have been named fellows of the American Chemical Society: Karthikeyan Ramasamy and Yuyan Shao.

Algae can collect and concentrate rare earth metals from seawater—an alternative to imported sources mined from the ground.

PNNL receives a 2023 Federal Laboratory Consortium Far West Regional Award for a technological innovation that could help make the U.S. a producer of critical minerals used in electronics and energy production.

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

Metabolomics analysis revealed differences in metabolome profiles for two distinct modes of fungal wood decay.