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Emission capture study funded for paper industry

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Battelle and Boise Inc. will conduct the first-ever feasibility study of new carbon capture and storage technology in the $140 billion pulp, paper and paperboard industry, under a $500,000 project announced by the Department of Energy.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Human Proteome Organization honors PNNL scientist

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Laboratory and Battelle Fellow Dick Smith of the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized by the Human Proteome Organization for his many accomplishments in pioneering the development of proteomics tools.

Funder: Human Proteome Organization
Meeting: 8th Annual HUPO World Congress on Proteomics and Human Health: Environment and Disease

High-tech nuke detectors check Puget Sound small vessels for WMD

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Business Announcement

More than 300 trained maritime law enforcement and first responder personnel from federal, state, local and tribal agencies participated in an operational maritime exercise in Puget Sound this week. Maritime law enforcement and first responders conducted non-intrusive small vessel radiological screenings at three Puget Sound security zones located at Admiralty Inlet, Bellingham Bay and North Skagit Bay.

Funder: US Department of Homeland Security

PNNL chemist earns NIH New Innovator Award

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

An analytical chemist at the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized with a National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award. The award will support Wei-Jun Qian's drive to make new research and clinical diagnostic tools that are dramatically more sensitive, reliable and faster than current technologies.

Funder: National Institutes of Health

Catalytic Catamarans: Common industrial catalyst sports rafts made of platinum

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Catalysts convert useless or unwanted chemicals into useful or more desirable ones. Research in this week's Science reveals new, important details about a common catalyst: chemically reactive platinum atoms group into rafts that float above the supporting surface, providing ample space for catalytic reactions. The new work from DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory yields insights into how to improve the industrial catalyst for oil refining, chemicals processing and environmental uses.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

A splash of graphene improves battery materials

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have found that graphene, sheets of carbon one atom thick, improves the performance of titanium dioxide as a lithium battery electrode.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: 6th Annual Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference

A flash of light turns graphene into a biosensor

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

After learning how DNA interacts with the novel nanomaterial graphene, researchers propose a DNA-graphene nanoscaffold be used as a biosensor to diagnose diseases, detect toxins in tainted food and detect pathogens in biological weapons, among other applications.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: 2009 Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference

Tip sheet: Migration '09 convenes near site of early nuclear technology

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This release contains news tips from Migration '09: 12th International Conference on the Chemistry and Migration Behavior of Actinides and Fission Products in the Geosphere.

Meeting: Migration '09

Salmon migration mystery explored on Idaho's Clearwater River

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Temperature differences and slow-moving water at the confluence of the Clearwater and Snake rivers in Idaho might delay the migration of threatened fall Chinook salmon salmon and allow them to grow larger before reaching the Pacific Ocean. To find out if that's the case, a team of Northwest researchers are implanting young fish with acoustic and radio tags to track their movement and using hydrological sensors to measure water temperature and speed.

Funder: Bonneville Power Administration

Hot and cold moves of cyanide and water

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have long known that molecules dance about as the temperature rises, but now researchers know the exact steps that water takes with a certain molecule. Results with small, electrically charged cyanide ions and water molecules reveal that water zips around ions to a greater extent than expected. The findings, published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A, improve our understanding of a chemical interaction important in environmental and atmospheric sciences.

Journal: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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