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Riveting technology enables lightweight magnesium fasteners for fuel efficiency

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Rotational Hammer Riveting, developed by PNNL, joins dissimilar materials quickly without preheating rivets. The friction-based riveting enables use of lightweight magnesium rivets and also works on aluminum and speeds manufacturing.

Journal: Journal of Magnesium and Alloys

Making methane from CO2: Carbon capture grows more affordable

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

PNNL researchers can make methane from captured CO2 and renewably sourced hydrogen, offering a path toward cheaper synthetic natural gas.

Journal: ChemSusChem
Funder: SoCalGas

How ant teeth cut like a scalpel

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The built-in tools of ants have been imaged in atomic detail for the first time by materials scientist Arun Devaraj.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

Extreme sea levels to become much more common worldwide as Earth warms

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study in Nature Climate Change predicts that extreme sea levels—exceptionally high seas due to the combination of tide, waves and storm surge—along coastlines the world over will become 100 times more frequent by the end of the century in about half of the 7,283 locations studied.

Journal: Nature Climate Change
Funder: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy

Well, this is cool: PNNL's Bruce Kay is a supercooled water expert

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Bruce Kay is an international authority on how water, and whose research examines how fast reactions occur between molecules and surfaces and also how they convert from solid to liquid to gas. His research provides an example of the collaboration and research that will take places in PNNL's new Energy Sciences Center.

Steering the future of spent nuclear fuel

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A PNNL report reflects nearly 10 years of dedication bringing together experts, including local communities and tribes, to effectively plan for the safe and uneventful removal of radioactive waste from nuclear power plant sites.

Faster and cheaper ethanol-to-jet-fuel on the horizon

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A patented process for converting alcohol sourced from renewable or industrial waste gasses into jet or diesel fuel is being scaled up at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

To reduce vehicle pollution, a single atom can do the work of several

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A discovery from PNNL and Washington State University could help reduce the amount of expensive material needed to treat vehicle exhaust by making the most of every precious atom.

Journal: Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

A call to rethink electricity measurement

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL researcher's proposed overhaul of outdated electricity measurements could mean fewer blackouts, better automation, and more clean energy resources.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Green diesel for the road ahead

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A new report led by PNNL identifies the top 13 most promising waste- and biomass-derived diesel blendstocks for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, other pollutants, and overall system costs.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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