Vincent Sprenkle Named Director of Grid Storage Launchpad
Energy storage expert Vince Sprenkle leads Office of Electricity's first facility to advance next-generation energy storage technologies.
Spurgeon Named Lead Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Editor
Steven Spurgeon, materials scientist supporting the National Security Directorate at PNNL, was recently named lead machine learning editor for the journal Microscopy and Microanalysis.
Building a Better Model: Supersaturation Variability May Affect Cloud Droplet Concentration
Researchers show that small-scale turbulent fluctuations lead to larger concentrations of cloud droplets than would be possible in conventional models of atmospheric clouds
For Understanding Soil Methane Flux, Two Techniques Are Better Than One
Researchers used a combination of sophisticated laboratory incubations and field measurements to determine the role of microbial production and consumption of methane in soils with different exposure to tidal inundation
Predicting the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Catalytic Hydrogenation
Catalysts that efficiently transfer hydrogen for storage in organic hydrogen carriers are key for more sustainable generation and use of hydrogen. New research identifies activity descriptors that can accelerate novel catalyst development.
Computational Chemistry Needs To Be Sustainable, Too
As new paradigms in advanced computing take shape, computational chemistry researchers are finding new ways to solve challenging chemistry problems.
An R Package for NMR Data Processing
Reproducible workflows for binning and visualizing nuclear magnetic resonance spectra from environmental samples.
How Does a River Breathe?
PNNL scientists have been studying how rivers and streams breathe. Their research focuses on respiration, organic matter, and natural disturbances that affect rivers and streams.
Sulfur Dioxide Emission Height Reveals Uncertainty in Radiative Forcing Across Earth System Models
The Emissions Model Intercomparison Project examined how selected emissions-related properties affected results in 11 global chemistry and Earth-system models.