When the COVID-19 pandemic halted all travel for in-person inspections, a team at PNNL knew they needed to find a way to perform assessments virtually. Their solution—a portable kit that could be shipped to locations.

Wendy Shaw, director of the Physical Sciences Division at PNNL, was selected to guest edit a special issue on (photo)electrocatalysis featured in January 2021 edition of the scientific journal ChemComm.

German Catalysis Society gives top award to Battelle Fellow, director of PNNL Institute for Integrated Catalysis.

Ann Lesperance, national security advisor, joins the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Applied Research Topics for Hazard Mitigation and Resilience.

PNNL catalysis experts Oliver Y. Gutierrez and Jamie Holladay, along with a colleague from The City College of New York, led a special issue of the Journal of Applied Electrochemistry.

The American Chemical Society's Energy & Fuels Division elected PNNL scientist Yuyan Shao as Chair-Elect for 2021 and scientist Dave Heldebrant as Director-at-Large.

Data Scientist Sam Chatterjee to chair security and defense specialty group of the Society for Risk Analysis.

Researchers at PNNL revisit a disaster recovery framework for relevance to COVID-19 pandemic.

Six renowned catalysis experts participated this fall in a PNNL speaker series that focused on plastic deconstruction and the prospects for the synthesis of renewable, biodegradable plastics.

David Manz is a cybersecurity researcher who is working with cyber-physical systems to better protect the critical infrastructure.

Lu honored for "elucidating design principles of artificial metalloproteins to gain novel and deeper insights into the structure and function of natural systems."

PNNL data scientists Ján Drgoňa and Draguna Vrabie are working to reduce deployment costs of advanced energy control systems for buildings.

PNNL bioenergy expert Dan Gaspar has been selected to assume leadership of DOE’s Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines initiative.

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.

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-University of California, Berkeley scientist cited for ‘tireless dedication to the stewardship of catalysis.’

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, deputy director of the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis (CME), has received awards from both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society.

PNNL building energy-efficiency expert Theresa Gilbride has been invited to participate in a new task group that will provide guidance to make homes more resistant to hurricanes and high winds.

The three-year project funded by DOE’s Basic Energy Sciences program will focus on using electrochemistry to capture ambient carbon dioxide.

PNNL mechanical engineer Stephanie Johnson has been recognized by DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office for making a significant impact in energy-efficiency research.