Yi Lu Receives the Royal Society of Chemistry Joseph Chatt Award
Lu honored for "elucidating design principles of artificial metalloproteins to gain novel and deeper insights into the structure and function of natural systems."
Battery Reliability Test Laboratory
The Battery Reliability Test Laboratory at PNNL is a world class battery testing facility that has been established to accelerate the development of grid energy storage technologies that will help modernize the power grid.
Water Research Earns INCITE Supercomputer Access
The project received an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) award, a highly competitive U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science program.
Physicist Malachi Schram Co-Edits ‘AI for Nuclear Physics’ Report
The workshop brought together 184 scientists to explore research opportunities for nuclear physics in artificial intelligence.
Odeta Qafoku-Led Chemistry Journal Article Ranks in Top 10 Percent
The article, “Nanoscale observations of Fe(II)-induced ferrihydrite transformation,” was selected for articles published in 2020.
Insights Through Atomic Simulation
Special issue highlights PNNL contributions to NWChem and CP2K, two prominent software packages for computational chemistry.
Researchers Propose a Common Yardstick to the Efficiency of Molecular Electrocatalysts
In an invited ACS Catalysis Viewpoint paper, scientists at PNNL proposed a way to measure and report the energy efficiency of molecular electrocatalysts.
DOE to Renew Energy Frontier Research Center at PNNL
PNNL welcomed one of the 32 multi-million dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers announced by DOE this week.
Predicting Potholes on the Road to Renewable Energy
Scientists at the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis (CME) devised a new computation-based method to predict the catalytic intermediates that could represent a thermodynamic sink.
Getting into the Fast Lane Means Minor Adjustments Far from the Catalyst's Core
Taking a cue from enzymes, researchers at PNNL placed the amino acid arginine at the periphery of a hydrogen-splitting catalyst that cleaves hydrogen into protons and electrons.