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Analytical innovations bring $10 million back to national laboratory, Battelle

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A suite of analytical innovations used to detect and measure very low levels of compounds and elements has topped $10 million in licensing income for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and its operator Battelle. It's the first time that income tied to a specific technology developed at PNNL has reached this level.

PNNL team wins American Chemical Society award

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory wins the first-ever team award for the American Chemical Society's Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science.

Meeting: American Chemical Society 249th National Meeting & Exposition

The climate is starting to change faster

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Earth is now entering a period of changing climate that will likely be faster than what's occurred naturally over the last thousand years, according to a new paper in Nature Climate Change, committing people to live through and adapt to a warming world.

Journal: Nature Climate Change
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Big box stores could ditch the grid, use natural gas fuel cells instead

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Natural gas-powered solid oxide fuel cells, located at the point of use to produce electricity for facilities the size of big box stores, could provide economic and environmental benefits, with additional research, according to new study.

Journal: Fuel Cells
Funder: Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy

Permafrost's turn of the microbes

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As the Arctic warms, tons of carbon locked away in Arctic tundra will be transformed into the powerful greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane, but scientists know little about how that transition takes place. In a study appearing in today's issue of Nature, scientists looking at microbes in different types of Arctic soil have a new picture of life in permafrost that reveals entirely new species and hints that subzero microbes might be active.

Journal: Nature
Funder: Department of Energy, Academy of Finland, United States Geological Survey

New flow battery to keep big cities lit, green and safe

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The new zinc-polyiodide redox flow battery uses an electrolyte that has more than two times the energy density of the next-best flow battery used to store renewable energy and support the power grid. It's high energy density, and resulting lower cost, make it ideal for large cities where space is at a premium.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Dendrite eraser: New electrolyte rids batteries of short-circuiting fibers

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new electrolyte allows rechargeable batteries to operate well without growing dendrites, tiny pin-like fibers that short-circuit rechargeable batteries.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Zeolites: The inside story

DOE/Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Zeolites have been used for decades as catalysts and in other industrial applications, but the molecular transformations occurring within the porous material is not well understood. Scientists from universities, national laboratories and industries are using EMSL's staff expertise and advanced instrumentation to gain an atomic-level understanding of these materials to improve energy production and address environmental issues.

PNNL recognized for moving biofuel, chemical analysis innovations to market

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Developing renewable fuel from wet algae and enabling analysis of complex liquids are two of the latest innovations Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has successfully driven to the market with the help of commercial partners.

Tracking fish easier, quicker, safer with new injectable device

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new acoustic fish-tracking tag is so tiny it can be injected with a syringe. It's small size enables researchers to more precisely and safely record how fish swim through dams and use that information to make dams more fish-friendly.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: US Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources

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