De Yoreo, Legg Co-Author Commentary on Crystallization Research
Writing in the journal Nature Chemistry, PNNL materials scientists Jim De Yoreo and Benjamin Legg provides context to new work showing how single atoms organize into clusters that seed crystal growth
Reversible Structural Transformation in Supercooled Water
Supercooled water is really two liquids in one. That’s the conclusion reached by a research team after making the first-ever measurements of liquid water at extreme cold temperatures.
PNNL, Collaborators Receive New Funding to Explore Enzyme Environment
NIH awarded $1.7 million to researchers from PNNL, WSU, and NREL to continue fundamental research into catalytic bias—a phenomenon in the protein environment that shifts the direction and speed of an enzyme’s catalytic reaction.
PNNL Team Provides Perspective on Ammonia Oxidation
A perspective article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society by a team of PNNL researchers shows the way forward to understand ammonia oxidation.
Structure-Directing Agents Mediate a Two-Step Pathway of Metal Organic Framework Formation
The structure-directing agent directly interacts with framework components during material formation.
Copper-Zirconia Interface Enables Selective CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol
A nanosized metal catalyst directly bonded to a metal-organic framework is active in converting carbon dioxide to methanol.
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Porting Scalable Computational Chemistry to Cloud Computing
Electronic structure codes in a cloud environment can enable efficient computational chemistry simulations.