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23-Nov-2020
Transactive Energy: Negotiating New Terrain
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNNL's longstanding grid and buildings capabilities are driving two projects that test transactive energy concepts on a grand scale and lay the groundwork for a more efficient U.S. energy system.
16-Nov-2020
A bridge to the quantum revolution
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNNL, Microsoft Quantum partner to link quantum circuits to powerful government supercomputers.
12-Nov-2020
Shear force -- How good materials are made better
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Materials scientists at PNNL are demonstrating materials with improved properties using solid phase processing.
10-Nov-2020
Glowing progress in pathogen discovery
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
OmniScreen is an end-to-end pipeline for quickly and effectively distinguishing a plethora of pathogenic cells in a microbial community. The system extracts, probes, and screens thousands of cells to pick out pathogens in a matter of days.
9-Nov-2020
The Root of Microplastics in Plants
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Micro- and nanoplastics were not absorbed by plant cells but did attach to the root cap. This could bode well for future cleanup of contaminated environments, but not well for root crops, like carrots.
9-Nov-2020
PNNL Researchers Shift Project's Focus to Regional COVID-19 Patients
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNNL scientists are working with local doctors to collect and analyze air samples from patients' lungs, looking for protein patterns unique to patients with COVID-19.
6-Nov-2020
From blooms to biocrude
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNNL researchers are contributing expertise and hydrothermal liquefaction technology to a project that intercepts toxic algae blooms from water, treats the water, and concentrates algae for transformation to biocrude.
2-Nov-2020
New cyber technologies protect utility energy delivery systems
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNNL is taking new approaches to solve cybersecurity vulnerabilities for utilities and other industries that use process control technologies. Working with utility advisors and companies that specialize in identifying vulnerabilities, PNNL researchers have developed two web-based tools to assess and mitigate threats.
27-Oct-2020
PNNL gets X-Ray vision
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
For the past year, three small-scale x-ray spectroscopy devices tucked away at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have begun to dramatically speed up the testing and analysis of candidate novel materials used in energy storage research and environmental remediation.