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24-Aug-2004
Rest easy—it's safe and secure
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
The desk is cleared, the computer is off, and the weekend lies ahead-hit the lights and you are out the door. Not fifteen minutes later you begin to question whether you locked the safe where you store your classified materials--sound familiar? Even the most diligent and security minded personnel have at some time experienced this absent-minded professor syndrome.
24-Aug-2004
Nanoparticles may mean longer life for enzymes
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
The biochemical world's workaholic is the enzyme. Enzymes are molecules in cells that lead short, active and brutal lives. They restlessly catalyze their neighbors, cleaving and assembling proteins and metabolizing compounds. After a few hours of furious activity, they are what chemists call "destabilized," or spent.
24-Aug-2004
Mercury—watch out!
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
An innovative sponge-like material that can "absorb" more than half its weight in contaminants from waste streams has been developed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
24-Aug-2004
Making light of it
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
A cadre of researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is laying the groundwork for success with the most promising new lighting technology to emerge since liquid crystal displays (LCD).
24-Aug-2004
Soil's a natural for storing CO2
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
In a field outside Charleston, S.C., PNNL's Jim Amonette and his colleagues from the U.S. Forest Service and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have planted 72 pots with Sudan grass. They don't care much about the grass, however--it's the soil beneath that captures their attention.
24-Aug-2004
Fine-tuning carbon nanotubes
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Since their discovery in the 1990s, carbon nanotubes have ensnared the imagination of chemists. Among them are researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who are putting these fine filaments--ten-thousand times smaller than a hair--to work as biosensors and improving the way carbon nanotubes can be chemically customized to form the basis for a wide variety of devices.
24-Aug-2004
Reading, writing and nanoscience?
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has opened its doors to scholars of nanoscience by hosting the new "Intensive Courses in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology." Billed as one of science's hottest and most rapidly evolving fields, nanoscience involves the study of materials and their properties at the molecular level.
24-Aug-2004
From cosmetics to hydrogen storage—nanoscale materials push the frontier
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Suresh Baskaran develops new projects in advanced materials and manufacturing technology. This includes materials and manufacturing technology for new applications in electronics, photonics, energy conversion, vehicular structures, sensors and emissions control.
23-Aug-2004
Congress to fund Sequim-based coastal security research effort
DOE/Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryGrant and Award Announcement
A $4.2 million Congressional appropriation
will fund a new coastal security program designed to develop advanced sensors capable of providing early warning of biological, chemical or nuclear material releases in marine and coastal environments.
- Funder
- Congress, Office of Naval Intelligence