A study that combined experiments and theory showed how model enzymes control challenging reactions involving highly reactive carbocations.

Assessing a complex concert of the weather and terrain conditions that affect the growth of cumulus clouds into deep thunderstorms along mountain ranges.

Tropical cyclones induce sea surface cooling, but their associated heavy rainfall reduces the effect through increased ocean mixing.

Relaxing the simplifying assumptions in model energy budgets can affect their simulated regional water cycles.

By decreasing the amount of precious metal in a catalyst, the system increased its efficiency and selectivity for breaking apart plastics.

The buried interfaces between sections of a doped material can play a key role in the overall electronic properties of the system.

The size and concentration of ions influences the aggregation behavior of solutions of boehmite.

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

A novel combination of temperature and four-dimensional geophysical sensors revealed otherwise unseeable hydrologic dynamics below riverbed sediments.

Forms of nitrogen released by nitrogen-fixing bacteria differ across sampling scales and in structured environments.

Dominant and functionally important soil microbes show strong, predictable, and distinctly different associations with continental-scale gradients in climate, vegetation, and soil moisture.

New research quantifies the discrepancies between ground measurements of soil respiration and satellite estimates of photosynthesis.

The Triton Initative discusses special issue publications from the Triton Field Trials on environmental monitoring recommendations for marine energy applications.

PNNL researchers developed a hybrid quantum-classical approach for coupled-cluster Green’s function theory that maintains accuracy while cutting computational costs.

PNNL researchers created a model that helps materials scientists not only predict what is, but what could be.

PNNL researchers design an artificial intelligence-guided electron microscope in a Laboratory Directed Research and Development study.

Researchers are studying the chemical reactions that occur when oxygen mixes into the surface of oxide materials.

An improved model captures the interactions between the U.S. economy, energy, water, and land systems with increased spatial and temporal detail.

Recalibrating both cloud and subgrid representations improves model projections of the base climate, aerosol-cloud interactions, and cloud feedbacks.

Projects range from improving analytical instruments to producing precision prototypes.