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1-Jul-2001
Technologies featured in cyberspace marketplace
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
These days you can find anything on the web—even technology solutions ready for commercialization. Technologies developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are now among those listed on yet2.com, the first global forum for commercialization and technology transfer via the Internet.
1-Jul-2001
Preserving liquid assets
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have partnered with Mexican experts to develop a sustainable water management strategy for Mexico City and its aquifer, which serves 20 million people.
1-Jul-2001
One technology, countless applications
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
From personal security to custom clothing, better-fitting prosthetics to virtual reality video games—the list of potential applications for a new three-dimensional imaging technology developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory goes on and on.
20-Jun-2001
2001 Discover Magazine Innovation Awards
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Discover Magazine and the Christopher Columbus Foundation recognized scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in a ceremony today for developing two innovative technologies that will address vital health and humanitarian issues.
14-Jun-2001
Urban air quality — The difference between night and day
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and a collaboration of researchers measured the differences in air quality at sunrise in Phoenix, Arizona, in one of the most comprehensive studies ever done on the vertical structure of air pollution over a major urban area.
10-Jan-2001
LabNotes -- Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
DOE/Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Quarterly news tipsheet from Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory. In this issue:
- System is "black box" for power grid
- Biotechnology cleans up chlorinated solvents
- Purifier detects pathogens at "point-of-use"
- Stabilizing plutonium less expensively
1-Jan-2001
Big possibilities from tiny technologies
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and around the world are exploring nanoscience and nanotechnologies, where dimensions are in the range of one billionth of a meter. Bill Rogers manages Pacific Northwest's Nanoscience and Technology Initiative and was recently appointed the associate laboratory director for the Environmental and Health Science Division, which he renamed the Fundamental Science Division.
1-Jan-2001
Energy-efficiency projects receive federal awards
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Two of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's energy efficiency projects—one focused on military family housing and one on the Laboratory's own office buildings—earned prestigious awards from DOE and the Federal Interagency Policy Committee.
1-Jan-2001
Laboratory science and technology contributing to environmental mission
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
With the end of the Cold War and the nonproliferation treaties that followed, the United States was faced with a new challenge arising from its nuclear armament efforts: dealing with a legacy of radioactive waste and contaminated areas at sites formerly used for nuclear research, development, production and testing.