Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has a long history of technology transfer success, offering partners access to world-class science, advanced technologies, and unique research facilities. Collaborations with industry, small businesses, universities, government agencies, and other labs bring new technologies to the marketplace and contribute to our nation’s economic competitiveness and national security.
With more than 120 R&D 100 Awards and numerous Federal Laboratory Consortium honors, PNNL is consistently recognized as one of the world’s top innovators—delivering technologies that transform industries, strengthen national security, and advance clean energy.
As a Department of Energy Federally funded research and development center, PNNL can collaborate with industry, academia, government agencies, and other national labs. You can also explore recent highlights of our impact in the PNNL Newsroom.
By engaging with PNNL, you connect science to impact—advancing innovation, strengthening U.S. competitiveness, and delivering solutions that matter nationally.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) — Over the past decade, AI has enabled a new generation of applications, opening the door to breakthroughs in many aspects of daily life. From situational awareness to threat analysis and detection, online signals to assurance of high-consequence systems, PNNL is advancing the frontiers of scientific research and national security by applying AI to scientific problems.
- Learn how PNNL and Microsoft are joining forces to accelerate scientific discovery by leveraging advancements in computing to enable new ways to approach scientific research.
- Discover how EMSL integrates advanced instrumentation with high-performance computing to drive faster insights and breakthrough science.
Advanced Manufacturing — Advanced manufacturing is transforming industry with technologies that improve productivity and energy efficiency while supporting U.S. competitiveness. At PNNL, our innovations help move ideas more quickly from concept to real-world application, delivering impact where it matters most.
- See how PNNL’s R&D 100 Award–winning ShAPE™ process applies rotational shear during extrusion to enable energy-efficient production of lightweight, high-performance materials.
National and Homeland Security — PNNL delivers science-based solutions to safeguard the nation—developing critical capabilities in threat detection, nuclear materials, cybersecurity, and operational systems to protect U.S. citizens and infrastructure.
- Explore how PNNL secures coastal spaces, sensors, and platforms at its Sequim marine research site for maritime and border threat detection.
- Learn more about how PNNL’s Rapid Prototyping Lab enables sponsors to move from emerging threat concepts to tangible models in days.
Chemical Synthesis — Chemical synthesis is a signature strength at PNNL. Researchers design and test new catalysts and processes that enable efficient chemical transformations and accelerate breakthroughs in catalysis, energy conversion, and sustainable chemistry. PNNL is applying this expertise to food and energy, personal care and household products, medicines, and even the materials in smart phones and other electronics. Our patents cover the conversion of waste gases, water sludge, and manure into valuable fuels, chemicals, and materials.
- Examine how PNNL’s synthesis, characterization, and computational capabilities reveal mechanisms of complex reactions and support innovation for energy, materials, and national security.
- Find out how PNNL’s Institute for Integrated Catalysis brings together more than 120 researchers to accelerate breakthroughs in catalysis, energy conversion, and sustainable chemistry.