Sentences with phrase «northwest national laboratory»

Now, thanks to a team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, scientists can examine molecular interactions at the high pressures and temperatures expected in deep geologic reservoirs.

Reporting in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a team of researchers in the Institute for Integrated Catalysis at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory led by chemist Janos Szanyi showed that the artificial catalyst works much the same way that similar bacterial enzymes do: by coming at the target from the side rather than head on.

A team of scientists led by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory modified the current formula to calculate Potential Intensity by including the effects of upper - ocean mixing, sea - surface cooling, and salinity during a cyclone.

Results: When it comes to transporting a cell's valuable electrons, the metal - reducing microbe Shewanella oneidensis only trusts stable, mature proteins, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Results: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found the first evidence that, when environmental conditions are right, cells «reprogram» to create faster and more efficient cellular machinery.

Results: Today's climate models regard organic aerosols as static carbon - based molecules, but scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of California, Irvine showed that the particles are very dynamic.

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory showed that global climate models are not accurately depicting the true depth and strength of tropical clouds that have a strong hold on the general circulation of atmospheric heat and the global water balance.

Researchers from three US national labs — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)-- have performed the first, fully integrated assessment of the quality and yield of common feedstocks from the field to hydrocarbon blendstock production using the fast pyrolysis - hydrotreating pathway.

And now, climate scientists can model it, thanks to research from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

In one sentence: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered transient species and reaction pathways in a common electrochemical system interface using liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry and a vacuum - compatible electrochemical microfluidic reactor.

As reported in the Journal of Hydrometeorology, a team led by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory coupled a newly developed river - routing model with an Earth system model, and the simulated streamflow compared favorably against the observed streamflow from more than 1,600 major river stations worldwide.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Inactive enzymes entombed in tiny honeycomb - shaped holes in silica can spring to life, scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found.

In one sentence: Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and colleagues found that if followed by measures of equal or greater ambition, individual country pledges to reduce their emissions called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions have the potential to reduce the probability of the highest levels of warming and increase the probability of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

In one sentence: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers explained the complex fluxes in turbulent storm clouds using statistical distributions of the vertical velocity and various kinds of precipitating particles within the clouds.

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Heriot - Watt University in Scotland put the tetrahedral ammonium radical, made from a nitrogen atom and four hydrogen atoms, on the electronegativity scale.

In one sentence: A strikingly large increase in the number of atmospheric river days awaits the U.S. west coast if climate warming remains relatively unchecked, according to researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Now, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Caltech and Lancaster University have established a technique using climate models to compare the factors to the effects they have on climate change by peering into climate models from a different angle.

(Credit: Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.)

Research on replacing or refining this membrane was examined by Dr. Birgit Schwenzer and her peers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Five researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been named to a comprehensive list of the world's most referenced scientists.

Results: Whether capturing xenon for security or industrial uses, a new material could be a valuable ally, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Results: By gently dropping selected molecules onto surfaces, the unassumingly named soft landing technique provides exquisite control for those building and studying materials, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

In one sentence: Regions that depend primarily on irrigation from surface water will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow, according to climate modeling research from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

He is the director of the Joint Global Climate Change Research Institute, a collaborative partnership between the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland.

«This study reconciles what we see in real life to what computer models show us,» said Fan of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that miniscule particles of airborne dust, thought to be a perfect landing site for water vapor, are altered by the pollution they encounter in the atmosphere during their cross-continental journey.

A team of scientists led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory atmospheric researcher Dr. Susannah Burrows and collaborator Daniel McCoy, who studies clouds and climate at the University of Washington, reveal how tiny natural particles given off by marine organisms — airborne droplets and solid particles called aerosols — nearly double cloud droplet numbers in the summer, which boosts the amount of sunlight reflected back to space.

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found that the weather patterns known as El Niño and La Niña could lead to at least a doubling of extreme floods and droughts in California later this century.

The study completed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Villanova University researchers led to important discoveries in the advancement of catalysis for production of hydrogen gas.

Across the country, in a quiet corner of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a scientist contemplated that DOE challenge.

As shown by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Dr. Michael Henderson and Dr. Igor Lyubinetsky in their invited review article, using scanning probe microscopy techniques, in particular scanning tunneling microscopy or STM, allows scientists to understand fundamental interactions that are key to our energy future.

The one sentence: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory coupled a newly developed river - routing model with an Earth system model, and the simulated streamflow compared favorably against the observed streamflow from more than 1,600 major river stations worldwide.

A research team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the University of Maryland, Beijing Normal University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that increases in air pollution's tiny particles in the atmosphere have a strong influence on cloud development, which affects weather and climate.

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are researching the reason capacity fading happens to batteries, like in our cell phones or our electric vehicles.

The research team included Dong Chen and Wangya Hu, Hunan University, Changsha, P.R. China; Fei Gao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Huiqiu Deng, Hunan University, Changsha, P.R. China; and Lixian Sun, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China.

Research Team: Sam Payne, Matthew Monroe, Christopher Overall, Gary Kiebel, Michael Degan, Bryson Gibbons, Grant Fujimoto, Samuel Purvine, Joshua Adkins, Mary Lipton, and Richard D. Smith, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

To replicate this roundabout route in climate models, a team of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers found a way to compute the complex fluxes using statistical distributions of the vertical velocity and the kinds of precipitating particles within the convective clouds.

Results: The least costly way to manage the heat - trapping effect of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is to pursue every available option to reduce emissions, according to a study by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, published in the journal Climatic Change.

After comparing historical data on regional air pollution and the affluence level of communities, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of North Carolina have projected air pollution scenarios into the end of the 21st century.

«We were studying agostic bonds in a project to make liquid fuels like methanol from carbon dioxide to replace fuels we get from oil,» said chemist Morris Bullock at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Results: In the quest for safe methods of storing nuclear waste, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Curtin University, Australia are investigating radiation effects on candidate materials for immobilizing plutonium and other actinides.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are applying atmospheric science research capabilities to improve our understanding of long - term weather trends and better predict extreme weather events like these — and it all starts with studying clouds.

To address this gap in knowledge, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers performed the first comprehensive metabolomics and lipidomics study on Y. lipolytica to characterize metabolic processes associated with lipid accumulation in the yeast species.

The team used an infrared spectrometer equipped with a high - pressure reaction vessel, located in Sigma 5 at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

In one sentence: Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that when miniscule particles of airborne dust, thought to be a perfect landing site for water vapor, are modified by pollution, they change cloud properties via ice crystal number concentration and ice water content.

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory determined how to keep the template intact.

Methods: The results emerged from discussions among 15 scientists working in the fields of geochemistry, physics, biology, and the earth and materials sciences, including at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Results: Trios of tungsten atoms are greatly influenced in their migration across the wilds of a tiny particle by the shape of the particle, according to a team of experts, including Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Dr. Fei Gao.

At the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, researchers are working to understand the principles that govern how materials are formed, also known as materials synthesis.

Results: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new computational approach for comparing receptor networks in cells.