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ShAPEing the future of magnesium car parts

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new process developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, should make it more feasible for the auto industry to incorporate very lightweight magnesium alloys into structural components. The method has the potential to reduce cost by eliminating the need for rare-earth elements, while simultaneously improving the material's structural properties.

Journal: Materials Science and Engineering A
Funder: DOE/Vehicle Technologies Office

PNNL scientist Jiwen Fan receives DOE Early Career Research award

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Jiwen Fan of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been selected to receive a 2017 Early Career Research Program award from the U.S. Department of Energy. Fan will use the award to study severe thunderstorms in the central United States - storms that produce large hail, damaging winds, tornadoes, and torrential rainfall.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy Rapid Manufacturing Institute (award number DE-EE0007888) and by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences

Are your tweets feeling well?

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study finds opinion and emotion in tweets change when you get sick, a method that public health workers could use to monitor health trends.

Journal: EPJ Data Science
Funder: Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Night vision for bird- & bat-friendly offshore wind power

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The ThermalTracker software analyzes video with night vision, the same technology that helps soldiers see in the dark, to help birds and bats near offshore wind turbines.

Journal: Ecological Informatics
Funder: Department of Energy

Distributed wind power keeps spinning, growing

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

America's use of distributed wind -- which is wind power generated near where it will be used -- continues to grow, according to the 2016 Distributed Wind Market Report.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

EMSL celebrates 20 years of scientific achievement

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Scientists, community leaders and others will gather Aug. 3-4 to celebrate the achievements of the first 20 years of EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.

PNNL scientist Ruby Leung appointed a Battelle Fellow

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Ruby Leung of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been named a Battelle Fellow -- the highest recognition from Battelle for leadership and accomplishment in science.

Protein data takes significant step forward in medicine

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oregon Health & Science University are part of a nationwide effort to learn more about the role of proteins in cancer biology and to use that information to benefit cancer patients.

Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute

Cut US commercial building energy use 29 percent with widespread controls

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The US could slash its energy use by the equivalent of what is currently used by 12 to 15 million Americans if commercial buildings fully used energy-efficiency controls nationwide.

Funder: DOE/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Tackling infectious disease -- one protein at a time

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A team of scientists in the Pacific Northwest has solved the 3-D structure of 1,000 proteins from more than 70 organisms that cause infectious disease in people. The proteins the team has studied come from microbes that cause several serious diseases, including tuberculosis, Listeria, Giardia, Ebola, anthrax, C. diff., Legionella, Lyme, chlamydia and the flu.

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