Solid phase processing (SPP) offers advantages for affordable, high-performance materials and components that can be manufactured with minimal environmental impacts. Each SPP technology has attracted attention from a variety of market segments.   

The goal of our research and development is to create scalable solutions that just work, outside of the laboratory, in the real-world. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists work closely with partners from industry, academia, and other research institutions from across the country and around the globe. We are currently engaged with more than 50 partners in the United States.

Collaborate with us

In collaboration with partners from industry and academia, PNNL seeks to leverage and extend development of distinctive capabilities in the solid phase processing of metal alloys and composites, and components made of these materials. SPP can:

• Reduce the life-cycle energy and resource impacts of metals manufacturing
• Deliver new materials and new products to enable next-generation technologies with extraordinary performance, such as increased conductivity, strength, and ductility
• Create a competitive advantage for U.S. manufacturers that leads to the production of clean energy and other products, and the creation of high-quality manufacturing jobs.

License our SPP technologies

PNNL has collaborated with more than 20 companies to explore and validate SPP for a variety of industrial challenges, from absorbable stents for medical applications to light-weighting for transportation.

SPP has the ability to make such a difference in manufacturing industries that one technology, ShAPE™, received an R&D 100 award and the Association of Washington Business (AWB) Green Manufacturing Award. Among other factors, AWB considered energy efficiency maximization, waste minimization, and reduced carbon emissions in production processes.

We invite you to collaborate with our research team, which has over 20 pending and granted patents, and license technologies that this prolific group has developed. Our innovative SPP technologies are available through a variety of exclusive and non-exclusive licensing options. Learn more about partnering with PNNL and how we can work with you to deliver new materials and products that exhibit extraordinary performance at low cost.

Full realization of SPP’s potential for manufacturing new materials and components will require collaborations across the national laboratories, industry, and academia. Contact us to get the conversation started about a research or commercialization partnership.