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Wei-Jun Qian: Then and Now / 2010 Early Career Award Winner

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Wei-Jun Qian is a staff scientist and team lead in the Integrative Omics group in the Biological Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Wendy Shaw: Then and now

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Wendy Shaw is the director for the Physical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The Early Career Award program provides financial support that is foundational to young scientists, freeing them to focus on executing their research goals.

PNNL publishes Distributed Wind Energy Report

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Wind energy costs at all-time lows, as wind turbines grow larger.

Designer proteins form wires and lattices on mineral surface

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This research is a fundamental discovery of how to engineer proteins onto non-biological surfaces. Artificial proteins engineered from scratch have been assembled into nanorod arrays, designer filaments and honeycomb lattices on the surface of mica, demonstrating control over the way proteins interact with surfaces to form complex structures previously seen only in natural protein systems. This study provides a foundation for understanding how protein-crystal interactions can be systematically programmed and sets the stage for designing novel protein-inorganic hybrid materials.

Journal: Nature
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Scientists show how one cause of weak enamel unfolds on the molecular level

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Scientists have shown how a tiny flaw in a protein results in damaged enamel that is prone to decay in people with a condition known as amelogenesis imperfecta. Such patients don't develop enamel correctly because of a single amino acid defect in the critical enamel protein called amelogenin.

A new manufacturing process for aluminum alloys

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using a novel Solid Phase Processing approach, a research team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory eliminated several steps that are required during conventional extrusion processing of aluminum alloy powders, while also achieving a significant increase in product ductility. This is good news for sectors such as the automotive industry, where the high cost of manufacturing has historically limited the use of high-strength aluminum alloys made from powders.

Journal: Materialia
Funder: Materials Synthesis and Simulation Across Scales Initiative

How cryptocurrency discussions spread

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

PNNL data scientist, Dr. Svitlana Volkova, the team analyzed three years of discussions on Reddit from January 2015 to January 2018. The team measured the speed and scale of discussion spread related to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero cryptocurrencies.

Funder: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Big Help from Small Microbes: Electron Transfers to Produce Fuels and Fertilizer

DOE/Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

The team at the BETCy Energy Frontier Research Center is learning how electron transfer processes drive energy-intensive reactions that produce ammonia and other chemicals. Knowing how electrons move could lead to processes that let industrial reactions soar over energy barriers.

PNNL scientists, colleagues catalog how colon cancer unfolds in the body

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL scientists and colleagues at Baylor and elsewhere have taken one of the most in-depth looks ever at the riot of protein activity that underlies colon cancer and have identified potential new molecular targets to try to stop the disease.

Synergy for storage: Containing nuclear waste for thousands of years

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Difficult issues persist in knowing how glass, metals, and ceramics behave over thousands of years. The diverse team at the Center for Performance and Design of Nuclear Waste Forms and Containers is learning the secrets of such materials to contain defense-related nuclear waste for thousands of years.

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