Feature Articles

PNNL's Dongsheng Li's crystal formation research helped reveal why nanoparticles sometimes self-assemble into five-sided shapes. The discovery will potentially be useful in medical research, electronics, and other applications.

PNNL's Framework for Assessment of Complex Environmental Tradeoffs (FACET) is designed to navigate and rigorously evaluate competing environmental, economic, and social impacts to help make decisions more equitable. In an example scenario prepared using publicly available data, FACET was applied to predict tradeoffs facing the Colorado River and to balance competing demands of river flow and temperature, along with withdrawals for cities, crop irrigation, and power generation.

Access to transportation will be made easier in a semi-rural Oregon town through an electric vehicle carsharing program. PNNL is lending analytics expertise that will inform programs in other rural and semi-rural areas.

New research findings aid in the design of more efficient water purification technologies.

PNNL's infrared pulsed heating technique reveals supercooled water's weird behavior; opens door to other fluid studies at new Energy Sciences Center.

National Nuclear Security Administration Graduate Fellow Marc Wonders has spent the past year working with researchers exploring artificial intelligence in the national security mission space.

The Digital Twins for Hydropower framework will help the industry to affordably modernize its aging hydropower fleet.

PNNL researchers developed an innovative capability to rapidly separate, monitor, and tightly control specific uranium and plutonium ratios in real-time--an important achievement in efficiently controlling the resulting product and safeguarding nuclear material.

In a collaboration between Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Washington's Urban Freight Lab, a prototype webapp has been developed that combines smart sensors and machine learning to predict parking space availability. The prototype is ready for initial testing to help commercial delivery drivers find open spaces without expending fuel and losing time and patience.

Computational results clarify the role water plays in the reactivity of a widely used class of porous oxide catalysts.