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.

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

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

Three PNNL bioenergy experts have received adjunct appointments at Washington State University (WSU), working closely with the WSU-PNNL Bioproducts Institute and students.

Scientists from PNNL and the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Services’ Pacific Northwest Research Station have partnered to evaluate potential climate and wildfire adaptation scenarios and resulting benefits from restoration forestry.

The size of the alkali metal within the material influences the crystallization pathway.

Providing a perspective on the importance of integrating experimental work with theory and simulations when designing new carbon capture solvents.

Parallel graph neural networks identify protein-ligand 3-D structural interactions to aid in protein function prediction and drug discovery.

PNNL bioenergy expert Karthikeyan Ramasamy was a co-guest editor in an American Chemical Society Energy & Fuels virtual special issue on advances in biomass and wastes thermochemical processing.

PNNL chemical engineer Mariefel Olarte has been elected second vice chair to the ASTM D32 Committee on Catalysis.

IDREAM researchers use fast force mapping to provide insights into the boehmite interfacial solution structure.

Carbon-neutral waste-to-fuel flow cell process generates its own energy.

Vanda Glezakou and Laboratory Fellow Roger Rousseau collaborated with other experts to write an American Chemical Society book chapter.

A hybrid computing approach for solving quantum chemical problems offers a practical bridge between classical and quantum computing.

Researchers achieved the complete assignment of the infrared spectrum of a hydronium-water “magic number” cluster reported in Science in 2004.

A team of researchers developed a simulation approach to identify how atomic structures can affect the phonon transport of energy and information in quantum systems near absolute zero temperatures.