Of Catalysts and Coke
This mineral helps the oil industry process petroleum. Understanding how it gets clogged up will improve its lifespan.
Sawdust Reinvented into Super Sponge for Oil Spills
Oil spills could be cleaned up in the icy, rough waters of the Arctic with a chemically modified sawdust material that absorbs up to five times its weight in oil and stays afloat for at least four months.
The Contradictory Catalyst
Using a natural catalyst from bacteria for inspiration, researchers have now reported the fastest synthetic catalysts to date for hydrogen production-- producing 45 million hydrogen molecules per second.
ShAPEing the Future of Magnesium Car Parts
New spin makes lightweight magnesium auto parts more useful.
Energy Technologies Get a Boost Toward Commercial Use
Six energy technologies that do everything from protect fish to monitor the health of flow batteries are getting a boost at PNNL with support from DOE's Technology Commercialization Fund.
PNNL Researcher Elected MRS Fellow
PNNL's Chongmin Wang has been elected to the rank of fellow in the Materials Research Society
Chemists Tackling Carbon Challenges at Next Week's American Chemical Society Meeting
At next week's American Chemical Society meeting, experts spanning a wide range of disciplines will get together to toss around ideas on technologies to capture the carbon dioxide.
Geochemists Reveal How Nanoparticles Evolve and Change
Nanoparticles morph through life, sprouting changes in the way they react chemically.
International Press Seeks Expertise of PNNL's Devanathan
International and national news outlets are quoting PNNL's Ram Devanathan as an expert in membrane separation as they report on a new nano-sieve.
Tweaking a Molecule's Structure Can Send it Down a Different Path to Crystallization
Scientists trying to understand the paths crystals take as they form have been able to influence that path, revealing insights that could lead to better control of drug development, energy technologies. And food.