World-class chemist Liyuan Liang has been selected as the director of EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory — a Department of Energy user facility on the campus of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Liang comes to PNNL from Oak …
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are playing a central role as the nation devotes more than $500 million to understand communities of microorganisms and their role in climate science, food production …
From smartphones to electric cars to home energy storage devices, rechargeable batteries power our modern lives. But have you ever stopped to wonder what's inside these devices that allow us to send emojis, drive around town and so much more? If so, …
Like the poet, microbes that make methane are taking chemists on a road less traveled: Of two competing ideas for how microbes make the main component of natural gas, the winning chemical reaction involves a molecule less favored by previous research, …
To make "clean" fossil fuel burning a reality, researchers have to pull carbon dioxide out of the exhaust gases that rise from coal or natural gas power plants and store or reuse it. For the capturing feat, researchers are studying special …
About 250 of the world's leading energy storage experts will gather at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory next week to discuss the latest battery technologies that are making electric transportation and large-scale renewable energy storage more …
Signing a two-page agreement and paying just $1,000 can get U.S. companies an opportunity to test drive promising technologies through a new, user-friendly commercialization option being offered at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National …
Three scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been selected to receive 2016 Early Career Research Program research grants. The three are among 49 recipients nationwide — including 22 at national laboratories …
Most of us think of that sweet smell after a storm as the aftereffect of rain that has rinsed the air of pollutants and dust. But it turns out that rain also triggers the release of a mist of particles from wet soils into the air, a finding with …
The oceans hold more than four billion tons of uranium — enough to meet global energy needs for the next 10,000 years if only we could capture the element from seawater to fuel nuclear power plants. Major advances in this area were published April 20 by …
Hybrid batteries that charge faster than conventional ones could have significantly better electrical capacity and long-term stability when prepared with a gentle-sounding way of making electrodes. Called ion soft-landing, the high-precision technique …
A contract has been awarded to a pair of Northwest architecture and construction firms to design and construct a new building that will allow Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to host larger scientific meetings, and increase collaboration among …
An unexpected discovery has led to a rechargeable battery that's as inexpensive as conventional car batteries, but has a much higher energy density. The new battery could become a cost-effective, environmentally friendly alternative for storing …
Scientists worldwide now have access to a powerful new resource at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a Department of Energy Office of Science user facility at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, to help them address pressing science …
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced that a fifth cybersecurity technology has been licensed for commercialization as a part of the Cyber Security Division's Transition to Practice (TTP) …
When water levels in rivers rise, an area known as the "river's liver" kicks into action, cleansing river water of pollutants and altering the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Now, in a paper published April 7 in Nature …
Researchers hoping to design new materials for energy uses have developed a system to make synthetic polymers — some would say plastics — with the versatility of nature's own polymers, the ubiquitous proteins. Based on an inexpensive industrial …
An improved titanium alloy — stronger than any commercial titanium alloy currently on the market — gets its strength from the novel way atoms are arranged to form a special nanostructure. For the first time, researchers have been able to see this alignment …
Microbes in soil — organisms that exert enormous influence over our planet's carbon cycle — may not be as adaptable to climate change as most scientists have presumed, according to a paper published March 2 in PLOS One. The finding means that a big …
Hydropower costs could be reduced, buildings could use less energy and adhesives could be made from plants under three new projects announced today by the Department of Energy. DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is being awarded a total of $ …
