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Released: 18-Sep-2024 3:20 PM EDT
Flexible Circuits Made with Silk and Graphene on the Horizon
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Ultra-thin layers of silk deposited on graphene in perfect alignment represent a key advance for the control needed in microelectronics and advanced neural network development.

Newswise: Flexible Circuits Made with Silk and Graphene on the Horizon
16-Sep-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Flexible Circuits Made with Silk and Graphene on the Horizon
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Ultra-thin layers of silk deposited on graphene in perfect alignment represent a key advance for the control needed in microelectronics and advanced neural network development.

Newswise: Three PNNL Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards
Released: 11-Sep-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Three PNNL Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The Department of Energy (DOE) selected Gavin Cornwell, Sneha Couvillion, and Bo Peng of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to receive 2024 Early Career Research Program awards. The three researchers work in fields that represent major areas of focus for PNNL: Earth science, biology, and chemistry.

Released: 5-Sep-2024 5:30 PM EDT
Research Vessel Resilience Charts Course to the Future of Marine Research
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

SEQUIM, Wash.—Officials gathered at the Sequim campus of the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory today to dedicate DOE’s first hybrid-electric research vessel, RV Resilience.The event marks the start of a new era of marine energy research at PNNL-Sequim, part of DOE’s Office of Science national laboratory system and Resilience’s new home port.

Released: 5-Sep-2024 5:30 PM EDT
Tackling One of the Most Extreme Environments on Earth: Nuclear Waste
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The complicated chemistry of legacy nuclear waste presents a challenge in environmental management. The presence of radioactive ions induces chemical changes that range from faster than the blink of an eye to decades in the making. Since 2016, researchers led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have been persistent in tracking and analyzing the chemical phenomena that occur in the extreme environments found in legacy nuclear waste.

Newswise: Long-Duration Energy Storage Can’t Wait
Released: 3-Sep-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Long-Duration Energy Storage Can’t Wait
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Long-duration energy storage gets the spotlight in a new Energy Storage Research Alliance featuring PNNL innovations, like a molecular digital twin and advanced instrumentation.

Newswise: Hands in the Glove Box
Released: 29-Aug-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Hands in the Glove Box
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

An international collaboration to protect the world from nuclear threats got a boost in 2023 when a visiting researcher brought an understudied plutonium processing chemistry method to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for hands-on research. “It’s not trivial to bring an outside researcher to PNNL and get them working in a glove box,” said PNNL nuclear forensics scientist and technical group leader Dave Meier.

Newswise: Digging into Death to Save the Living
Released: 29-Aug-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Digging into Death to Save the Living
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Kabrena Rodda, manager of the Analytical Chemistry and Instrumentation Group at PNNL, received the distinction of ACS Fellow.

Newswise: Sniff Test for Explosives Detection Extends Its Reach
Released: 20-Aug-2024 10:00 AM EDT
Sniff Test for Explosives Detection Extends Its Reach
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Scientists have developed a way to detect tiny amounts of hard-to-detect explosives more than eight feet away.

Newswise: An Electric Grid That Thinks Ahead
Released: 19-Aug-2024 5:05 PM EDT
An Electric Grid That Thinks Ahead
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Researchers are planning for an electric grid that deploys machine learning to think ahead, plan for the worst, anticipate demand, and meet consumer needs safely and securely.

Newswise: Grid Storage Launchpad at PNNL Opens New Era in Energy Storage
Released: 13-Aug-2024 12:00 PM EDT
Grid Storage Launchpad at PNNL Opens New Era in Energy Storage
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The Grid Storage Launchpad will enable researchers to accelerate and validate new battery materials and systems.

Released: 12-Aug-2024 7:05 PM EDT
Ships Now Spew Less Sulfur, but Warming Has Sped Up
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

New findings document fewer ship tracks, reduced cloud cover, and boosted warming after ship emissions regulations took effect in 2020.

Released: 1-Aug-2024 8:05 PM EDT
Experiment on Photosynthesis by Scientists at PNNL Headed to the Space Station
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

As launch time draws near, PNNL scientists are eager to explore how plants might grow in space, where the effect of gravity is substantially weaker.

Released: 1-Aug-2024 8:05 PM EDT
Born to Modulate: Researchers Reveal Origins of Climate-Controlling Particles
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Aerosol particles imbue climate models with uncertainty. New work by PNNL researchers reveals where in the world and under what conditions new particles are born.

Newswise: PNNL Partners with DOE to Improve Access to DOE’s Intellectual Property
Released: 31-Jul-2024 7:30 AM EDT
PNNL Partners with DOE to Improve Access to DOE’s Intellectual Property
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Thousands of innovations created by the Department of Energy are more accessible in one place thanks to a new database created by DOE.

Released: 24-Jul-2024 5:05 PM EDT
Pacific Northwest Launches Clean Hydrogen Energy Hub
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Clean hydrogen energy infrastructure is coming to the Pacific Northwest and PNNL experts are advising the work to come.

Released: 23-Jul-2024 7:00 AM EDT
PNNL Scientists Tap Nation’s Fastest Computers to Explore Critical Science Questions
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Researchers will explore climate, pathogens and energy-efficient microelectronics using 3 million node hours on the nation’s supercomputers.

Newswise: AI Model Harnesses Physics to Autocorrect Remote Sensing Data
Released: 15-Jul-2024 11:05 AM EDT
AI Model Harnesses Physics to Autocorrect Remote Sensing Data
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Scientists are using AI to counter the effects of the atmosphere and provide clearer data to satellites, using physics-informed machine learning.

Newswise: National Innovator of the Year Honor Goes to PNNL Energy Storage Expert
Released: 19-Jun-2024 2:05 PM EDT
National Innovator of the Year Honor Goes to PNNL Energy Storage Expert
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Ji-Guang (Jason) Zhang has been awarded the inaugural Department of Energy Lab Innovator of the Year Award, recognizing his contributions to research and his efforts to bring the benefit of new technologies to society as quickly as possible.

Newswise: Metal Alloys that Can Take the Heat
Released: 12-Jun-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Metal Alloys that Can Take the Heat
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Complex metal alloys enter a new era of predictive design for aerospace and other high-temperature applications.



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